Yes Yes Y’All - The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip-Hop’s First Decade
January 21, 2008 11:56 pm Funky Books, Funky Education, Hip Hop
Yes Yes Y’All - The Experience Music Project Oral History of Hip-Hop’s First Decade is a compilation of first-hand accounts that chronicle the early development of hip hop. Pulling quotes from over a hundred rappers, DJs, producers, dancers and artists, this book pulls together a variety of perspectives to create a layered musical narrative that’s impossible to put down.
The collection of takes contained in this book is based on the “Hip-Hop Nation” exhibit at Seattle’s Experience Music Project. Anyone who wants to learn about how hip hop grew from an underground party scene in New York to a worldwide music phenomenon should pick this book up.
Once you start reading the stories compiled by Jim Fricke and Charlie Ahearn and told by Russell Simmons, Grandmaster Flash, Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and others, you’ll be hooked. It’s a quick, fascinating read that shouldn’t be missed.
