Touré

Never Drank the Kool-Aid (eBook, ePUB)

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• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

His name is Touré--just Touré--and like many of the musicians, athletes, and celebrities he's profiled, he has affected the way that we think about culture in America. He has profiled Eminem, 50 Cent, and Alicia Keys for the cover of Rolling Stone. He's played high-stakes poker with Jay-Z and basketball with Prince and Wynton Marsalis. In Touré's world, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. sits beside Condoleezza Rice who sits beside hip-hop pioneer Tupac Shakur, and all of them are fascinating company.

Never Drank the Kool-Aid is the chronicle of Touré's unparalleled journey through the American funhouse called pop culture. Its rooms are filled with creative, arrogant, kind, ordinary, and extraordinary people, most of whom happen to be famous. It is Touré's gift to be able to see through the artifice of their world and understand the genuine motivations behind their achievements--to see who they truly are as people. This is a searingly funny, surprisingly unguarded, and deeply insightful look at a world few of us comprehend.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781429901093
• Artikelnr.: 39943906

Autorenporträt

Touré

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. I'm Audi
It Was a Wonderful World (Biggie Smalls, The Village Voice)
2. Sensitive Thugs
The Family Man (Eninem, Rolling Stone)
The Life of a Hunted Man (50 Cent, Rolling Stone)
DMX Drives Crazy, but He Loves You (Rolling Stone)
I'm Scared to Death, but I Gotta Live (Biggie Smalls, Rolling Stone)
The Toughest Record Exec Ever (Dick Griffey, XXL)
3. Big Willies
Best Rapper Alive (Puff Daddy, The Village Voice)
Hiphop's Biggest Kid Grows Up (Russell Simmons, Playboy)
The Power of Radio (Andre Harrell, unpublished)
Al Sharpton Has a Dream (Playboy)
Ships Passing in the Night (Barack Obama and Colin Powell, Suede magazine)
4. Icaruses
Invincible Man (Tupac, The Village Voice)
The Ivy League Counterfeiter (Cliff Evans, Rolling Stone)
The Greatest Tennis Player You've Never Heard Of (Al Parker, Jr., Tennis
magazine)
Inherit the Wind (Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Rolling Stone)
The Mystery of Lauryn Hill (Rolling Stone)
5. Almost Famous
A Woman Possessed (Beyoncé, Rolling Stone)
The Next Queen of Soul (Alicia Keys, Rolling Stone)
Lauryn in Love (Lauryn Hill, Rolling Stone)
Kurt Is My Copilot (Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Rolling Stone)
6. Get Up, Get Out, and Get Involved
Jay-Z Has Got Guts (Rolling Stone)
Do You Like My Jesus Piece? (Kanye West, Rolling Stone)
You Can Call Him Prince (Icon Magazine)
Wynton Marsalis Wants to Kick Your Ass (Icon Magazine)
Just Jen (Jennifer Capriati, unpublished)
7. Microphone Fiend
"Crack Is Responsible for Hiphop" (Ahmir Thompson, aka ?uestlove, The
Believer)
8. Strange Fruit
Condoleezza Rice Is a House Negro (Suede magazine)
Show Me the Money (Michael Jordan, The Village Voice)
The Five-Mic Personality, or Why I Hate Mary J. Blige (Vibe)
9. Somehow, There's Love in the Hiphop Nation
I Live in the Hiphop Nation (The New York Times)
Love Your Niggas (The Village Voice)
Are Gay Rappers Too Real for Hiphop? (Caushun, The New York Times)
Hiphop Famiglia (Junior M.A.F.I.A. and the Wu-Tang Clan, The Village Voice
)
No Drinks in '96! (Funkmaster Flex, The New Yorker)
10. Boys Will Be Boys
Trainspotting (The New Yorker)
Night Moves (The New Yorker)
Bling-bling Makes the Dictionary! (unpublished)
An Invitation to Carnal Russian Roulette, or Memoirs of a Sexual Desperado
(The Bastard on the Couch)
11. Who Do You Think You Are?
What's Inside You, Brother? (The Best American Essays 1996)
A Funky Fresh Talented Tenth (unpublished)
The Blackest Tennis Club in the World (Tennis magazine)
12. I Can't Take It
At Jam Master Jay's Funeral (unpublished)