Bomb the Suburbs

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Summary: Bomb your mind frame
Review: This book is more than Hip Hop story's to brag to your friends about. Bomb the suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt is a book breaking boundries in the way white kids like me think about hip hop. I feel that if you have any interest in Hip Hop at all, this book is a perfect way to investigate your curiosity. Wimsatt discusses the past, present, and future of hip hop and its relation to whites, and our country as a whole. I don't know any of my friends who were dissapointed in reading this book. Wimsatt is too honest to have the book taken as a joke. I reccomend this book for all "kids" with hip hop in there headphones, and all "adults" who turn off there childrens music out of a frustration that needs to be investigated. This book looks at politics in a much less pompus way than others in it's genre. Please set down your fears, and pick up this book at your local independent bookstore if possible.

Rating:
Summary: Bomb your mind frame
Review: This book is more than Hip Hop story's to brag to your friends about. Bomb the suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt is a book breaking boundries in the way white kids like me think about hip hop. I feel that if you have any interest in Hip Hop at all, this book is a perfect way to investigate your curiosity. Wimsatt discusses the past, present, and future of hip hop and its relation to whites, and our country as a whole. I don't know any of my friends who were dissapointed in reading this book. Wimsatt is too honest to have the book taken as a joke. I reccomend this book for all "kids" with hip hop in there headphones, and all "adults" who turn off there childrens music out of a frustration that needs to be investigated. This book looks at politics in a much less pompus way than others in it's genre.

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Summary: Easy there, fellas.
Review: This book is very appealing upon the first read. A white author writing with authority on a black art form, how empowering for all us crackas! Slow down. Upski is a talented writer and offers an interesting perspective on a subject that receives very little attention, but whites would do well to put a lid on the corny hip hop vs. rap, Four Elements of the Temple of Hip Hop type of babble. I've met Upski several times, and he's even admitted to me that Bomb the Suburbs is essentially a white author writing what he thinks Blacks want to hear.

Read his second book, No More Prisons, for a more balanced and less "desperate to be down" narrative on the state of hip hop. He matures greatly between the two books.

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Summary: THE BEST BOOK ON HIPHOP IVE READ
Review: This is one of the best books ive read and has many excelent thoughts on racism and cultrial behavior i recomend it to anyone with a open mind

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Summary: A book that one day with be a staple of school reading lists
Review: Though it is scattered at times and this reflects it's nature as a first book, it is almost unrivaled in importance for what it represents:

It is a book that actually is addressed not only to affluent rich, Caucasian readers. This in itself should make it vital reading, especially FOR privileged, Caucasian readers.

Think the inner city is dangerous? Is it "bad" to hitchhike or hop freight trains? Why do you believe this? The author provides plenty of personal anecdotes and other support to refute conventional notions and begins to address WHY people want to believe these ideas and how they and other ideas allow people to further their own hatred for black and other impoverished peoples which he expounds on in his follow-up book.

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Summary: Upski is one of THE greatest writers on Hip-Hop
Review: Upski delivers one of the freshest books on Hip-Hop in a society where we are forgetting the actual meaning of the art. His interviews with some of the most infamous names in writing and rap are a gem. This book is an instant classic to anyone who wants to learn more about the culture and more about themselves. You're hooked like a fish from the front cover to the last page. It's ill.

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Summary: Now I want to bomb the suburbs, too - and I live in them!
Review: Upski's voice is compelling, making this short book an intelligent and persuasive manifesto. A perfect gift for that hard-to-shop-for intellectual/anarchist on your list.

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Summary: Great defense of graffiti
Review: Wimsatt links grafitti and hip-hop culture to the larger ills of youth ("youth" being a state of mind, not pure chronology) in the 1990s to an adult (again, a state of mind) society hostile to the young they disowned. This book sets the reader up for the changes to come and what greatness can happen if the new generation succeeds in "overcoming isolation and broken homes by creating a family out of friends." They certainly didn't learn how to do that from us, the parents.