Ben Westhoff

Original Gangstas

Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap

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Produktbeschreibung

Now in paperback, ORIGINAL GANGSTAS is the acclaimed definitive history of West Coast hip-hop, revealing how a cohort of then-unknown rappers, including Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur, grappled with crime, drugs, gangs, bad cops, and racial tension to create the defining music movement of a generation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown & Company
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9780316344852
• ISBN-10: 0316344850
• Artikelnr.: 47445945

Autorenporträt

Ben Westhoff is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Guardian, Vice, Pitchfork, and the Wall Street Journal. He spent three years as the Music Editor at L.A. Weekly, and is the author of Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth, Fentanyl, Inc: How Rogue Chemists Created the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic, and Dirty South: Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop, which Rolling Stone called "packed with lively reporting and colorful social history." He lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife and two children.