{"product_id":"9780743451376","title":"Gunshots in My Cook-Up: Bits and Bites from a Hip-Hop Caribbean Life","description":"\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor\/Contributor(s):\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eHinds, Selwyn Seyfu\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eAtria Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDate:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e1\/6\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003ePaperback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"\"\u003eNEW\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\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.","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43351870111999,"sku":"9780743451376","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0452\/0886\/2873\/files\/Jacket_8eea943a-9793-44dc-98dc-51c10e7d9697.jpg?v=1746928389","url":"https:\/\/massivebookshop.com\/products\/9780743451376","provider":"MASSIVE BOOKSHOP","version":"1.0","type":"link"}