{"product_id":"9780743451376","title":"Gunshots in My Cook-Up : Bits and Bites from a Hip-Hop Caribbean Life","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGunshots in My Cook-Up\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Selwyn Seyfu Hinds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelwyn Seyfu Hinds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eaward-winning former editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eThe Source\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003epresents an extraordinary memoir\/history of hip-hop as seen through the eyes of one fan-turned-luminary.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe moment nine-year-old Hinds heard \"Rapper's Delight\" in Guyana, he embarked upon an amazing, if occasionally 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eInterspersing 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,\" \u003ci\u003eGunshots in My Cook-Up\u003c\/i\u003e ingeniously pulls wide-ranging elements into an irresistibly cohesive dish.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003eRussell Simmons [Hinds does] for hip-hop what Langston Hughes did for jazz.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Hinds knows hip-hop as well as any journalist around. This account is part memoir, part behind the music [and it] works because he still believes in the power of this new, brash, and still-not-fully charted art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Refreshing and insightful....An alert take on hip-hop's trajectory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780743451376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40589149176014,"sku":"9780743451376","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_1090a709-13ec-4bf5-a84e-a1e757aa8a22.jpg?v=1637712490","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780743451376","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}