Selwyn Seyfu Hinds -- award-winning former editor-in-chief of "The
Source" -- presents an extraordinary memoir/history of hip-hop as
seen through the eyes of one fan-turned-luminary. The moment
nine-year-old Hinds heard "Rapper's Delight" in Guyana, he embarked
upon an amazing, if sometimes contentious, relationship with
hip-hop -- one that would continue through his migration to
Brooklyn as a teenager and on through adult life. Here, he takes
readers to a murky nightclub in the violent streets of
late-eighties Brooklyn; to an Ivy League campus caught up in
political rap during the early nineties; to a curbside in Los
Angeles where Notorious B.I.G. has just been shot; to the achingly
poor streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as a sea of black humanity
surges to touch a hip-hop native son....
Interspersing recollections of life in the hip-hop trenches with
profiles of figures like Lauryn Hill, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Dr.
Dre, Wyclef Jean, and more, Hinds traces the heights and depths of
his hip-hop love affair. Like the Guyanese rice dish "cook-up,"
"Gunshots in My Cook-Up" ingeniously pulls wide-ranging elements
into an irresistibly cohesive dish.
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