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Darryl's friend Joseph Simmons--now known as Reverend Run--thinks Darryl's rhyme is pretty good, and he becomes inspired. Managed by Run's brother, the trio become the defiant creators of the world's most celebrated and enduring hip-hop albums--and in the process, drag rap music from urban streets into the corporate boardroom, profoundly changing everything about popular culture and American race relations.

Journalist Ro delivers a meticulously researched behind-the-music tale of family, friendship, betrayal, murder, and the building of the culture and industry known as hip-hop. Gangsta : merchandizing the rhymes of violence by Ronin Ro Book 4 editions published in in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide In Gangsta, Ronin Ro looks at the perversion of the music called hip-hop - the syncopated verse with a political edge and an emphasis on hope - into a medium of rage and hyper-violence.

Gangsta is about selling evil in a marketplace already glutted with faulty, combustible goods. Who supplies and who demands? Can we trace the engineers behind this star-maker machinery? This is packaged, sanctioned violence - a message without a source. Few rappers opt to stay in the 'hood; many more are lured to abandon it for the music video's version of the 'hood - the cartoon slash-and-burn community, the bloodbath, the vision of unassignable rage, anxiety, and revenge.

Ro is asking, Whose rage is this, and are the predominately black and Hispanic artists involved in a minstrel show gone out of control? Are we giving society what it wants or are we telling it what it wants? What is clear is that society is getting what it does not need.

What is most disturbing is that the music that carries the message was conceived to galvanize communities. As in the fifties, when television was supposed to function as a great teaching tool, hip-hop promised to promote pride and hope. Now it has morphed into cruelty, selfishness, the fracturing of communities and all this to the thwack, thwack of the plastic charge card.

You can't trace who wants what, who believes what, who needs what. This book is saying: Repent for your sins. Tales to astonish : Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and the American comic book revolution by Ronin Ro Book 7 editions published between and in English and No Linguistic content and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide "For fifty years, Jack Kirby drew more pages than any other comic book artist.

As talented as he was prolific, Kirby was responsible for many of the best-known and most beloved superheroes in popular culture. A portrait of one of its most enduring - and overlooked - artists, Tales to Astonish is also an account of the comic book industry, from its inauspicious origins to its sensational successes.

Bad boy : the influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the music industry by Ronin Ro Book 4 editions published in in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide A look at Sean "Puffy" Combs and Bad Boy Entertainment provides an indictment of the man and his work and addresses such issues as the rap industry's glorification of criminal activities.

Prince : inside the music and the masks by Ronin Ro Recording 8 editions published in in English and held by WorldCat member libraries worldwide Ronin Ro explores the mysterious life and controversial career of music icon Prince.

After 30 years and nearly 30 hit albums, Prince is an enduring symbol of pop music and pop culture. Niklas Pivic. Mark R. Mary Beth Kennedy. Jeff Freeman. Ronin Ro Goodreads Author. Combine Editions. Ronin Ro Average rating: 3. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Error rating book. Refresh and try again.

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