The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop Charnas DanPaperback
"There has never been a better book about hip-hop...a record-biz portrait that jumps off the page."--A.V. ClubThe perfect read for music lovers and business aficionados alike, The Big Payback reveals…
Specifikacia The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop Charnas DanPaperback
"There has never been a better book about hip-hop...a record-biz portrait that jumps off the page."--A.V. ClubThe perfect read for music lovers and business aficionados alike, The Big Payback reveals the secret histories of the early long-shot successes of Sugar Hill Records and Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC's crossover breakthrough on MTV, the marketing of gangsta rap, and the rise of artist/entrepreneurs like Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs.THE INSPIRATION FOR THE VH1 SERIES THE BREAKSThe Big Payback takes readers from the first $15 made by a "rapping DJ" in 1970s New York to the multi-million-dollar sales of the Phat Farm and Roc-a-Wear clothing companies in 2004 and 2007. On this four-decade-long journey from the studios where the first rap records were made to the boardrooms where the big deals were inked, The Big