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Summary: Critical praise for ego trip's Book of Rap Lists
Review: "Talk about addictive: Rap Lists will run your life for at least a week after you break the spine. You'll ask it for permission to leave the crib, the way Richard Pryor had to ask his pipe. The wealth of historical detail is staggering...It's a hip hop history that picks up the challenge that hip hop has been posing to the rest of the pop world for the last twenty years."-Rolling Stone"You won't find a more exhaustive chronicle of hip hop's history."-Esquire "Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists is entertaining and encyclopedic, comedic and clinical, celebratory and unflinchingly critical...and therein lies the beauty of the book."-Vibe "Irreverent, rambunctious, hilarious...The depth and the breadth of information presented here make a more compelling case for hip hop's artistic validity than a truckload of doctoral theses."-The Boston Phoenix "A must-have for any rap aficionado."-Russell Simmons, founder, Def Jam Records "Fearlessly funny, encyclopedic in scope, and sure to start more beef than Oscar Mayer, this book-like everything ego trip touches-is pure hip hop."-Alan Light, Editor-in-Chief, SPIN "Essential brain food for info-hungry hip hoppers."-Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, Editor-in-Chief, The Source "You hold in your hands a powerful tool, a document rich in humor and obsessive devotion. Packed with history and compulsively readable, Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists is bound to spark as many arguments as it settles. Buy the damn thing."-Joe Levy, Music Editor, Rolling Stone "An incredible encyclopedia of hip hop lore."-Select magazine (UK)
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Summary: Buy 15 Copies....
Review: ...send them out to friends and family. This is the hip hop book to own. Extremely imformative. Good readin' from cover cover. Fevorish fun it is! It'll make you wanna start building your own rap list.
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Summary: Buy 15 Copies....
Review: ...send them out to friends and family. This is the hip hop book to own. Extremely imformative. Good readin' from cover cover. Fevorish fun it is! It'll make you wanna start building your own rap list.
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Summary: Do believe the hype!
Review: A great browsing book that will eventually have you reading cover to cover. The information within is informative as well as opinionated, and the authors really know their music and its history. Wise, funny, irreverent, provocative, subversive - just like the best rap!
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Summary: this book has everything
Review: ego trip knows it all. they have compiled every miscellaneous hip hop fact in this book, as well as many of their own opinions, some of which had me sayin "man, ego trip don't know ish". this book was destined to cause controversy between hip hop headz. as excellent a book as i expected from my favorite magazine. bring it back ya'll!
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Summary: This book is comedy!
Review: Ego Trip unfortunately no longer exists as a magazine, but this book should be remembered as their most significant contribution to hip-hop as a cultural icon. It doesn't attempt to be objective--many of the lists reflect the originator's tastes and biases (see for example "Women Russell Simmons Wishes He Could Have Dated Before He Got Married")--but it does attempt to be thorough. From hip-hop history to fads to speculation on Tupac's death, Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists covers it all with tongue in cheek. Best of all, it doesn't attempt to glorify or deify--and they have pictures of the Biz Markie puppet.
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Summary: Hip Hop fans need this book
Review: I'll keep this short: imagine if the encyclopedia was written by Richard Pryor and he was making fun of everything he didn't like (and most of the stuff he did like) and he happened to know so much about everything that it made your jaw drop open. Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists is that and more.
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Summary: EVERY HIP-HOPPER SHOULD OWN AND CHERISH THIS BOOK!!!
Review: Like Busta Rhymes constantly says, you won't know "the 1/2" until you get your hands on this exhaustive collection of lists, trivia, lyrics and titles. I haven't found one important rapper who hasn't been touched on in this book, and most of it will leave you rolling ("Why Rappers Don't Dance No Mo'"), thinking ("Most Racist Rap Songs") or reflecting ("Most Misunderstood Lyrics"). Try your closest hip-hop heads in a game of trivia after this, and you will CLEAN UP: this book has it ALL!!! Quit being cheap/lazy/triflin' and GET THIS QUICK!!!
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Summary: Greatest Hip-Hop Anthology Ever
Review: The best critics truely love the art that they are critiquing. That is what is so special about this book. Don't let the title fool you this isn't a book of a bunch of top ten lists. In fact the list format makes it alot easier to read. The amount of information packed into this book is amazing. No book on rap, period, can compare to it. They start at the very begining and bring it right up to 1999. The writers for Ego Trip were satirical of a lot of things that surrounded hip-hop but, never in the typical sense. They love the music and it shows. Any person who has more than a passing interest in hip-hop deserves to read this book.
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Summary: This book is comedy!
Review: Think you know rap? Think again. From "Price Paul's All-Time Favorite Hip-Hop Skits" to "Too $hort's 10 Tips for Longevity" to "Freddie Foxxx's Tips For Playing Ceelo," there's an endless supply of info in this book. This something you can read and re-read for ages and find something new every time. Plus there's plenty of pictures of the Biz Markie puppet. How can you go wrong?
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