Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists

One of the smartest hip-hop publications of the 1990s, Ego Trip magazine was the product of the thoughtful and irreverent collective of Sacha Jenkins, Elliott Wilson, Jefferson Mao, Gabriel Alvarez, and Brent Rollins. When the magazine folded in 1998, the group turned to book publishing; EGO TRIP'S BOOK OF RAP LISTS was the first result. It's an informative, frequently hilarious window onto hip-hop's exclusive world, one with its own rules, mythology, saints, and sinners. It encompasses pretty much everything fans of the genre need to know, from the roots of hip-hop, with lists of Afrika Bambaataa's inventory of essential breakbeat records (which functioned as a kind of Rosetta Stone for 1980s European hip-hop devotees) and the Most Disappointing Debut Rap LPs, to notable hip-hop lyrics, both intelligible (16 Memorable Mysogynistic Rap Music Moments), and not so much (8 Songs With Notoriously Unintelligible Lyrics). Often controversial, wide-ranging in scope, and above all, a ton of fun, the BOOK OF RAP LISTS should be essential reading for old school hip-hop fans and novices alike. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.