Jeff Chang has been a hip-hop journalist for over a decade and has written for "The San Francisco Bay Guardian," "The Village Voice," "Vibe," "The Nation," "URB," "Rap Pages," "Spin" and "Mother Jones." He was a founding editor of "Colorlines Magazine," Senior Editor at Russell Simmons' 360hiphop.com and co-founder of the influential hip-hop label, SoleSides, now Quannum Projects. He lives in California.
Praise for "Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop
Generation"
"Flow without the ego, intellectualism without Ivory Tower disdain,
and, finally, history with heart and passion and fire: Jeff Chang's
"Can't Stop Won't Stop" manages to go from wide-lens overview to
pinpoint accuracy in covering the biggest cultural-political
movement of our time. A true accomplishment."
- Farai Chideya, author of "Trust" and "The Color of Our
Future"
"Jeff Chang is a master alchemist, spinning narrative gold from a
weave of sociology, history, political theory, and old fashioned
boom-bap. . ."Can't Stop Won't Stop" is one of the best books yet
written on the shifting, tumultuous history of hip-hop culture and
the generation of adherents it spat onto the American and global
landscape. It is a tour-de-force."
- Selwyn Seyfu Hinds, author of "Gunshots In My Cook-Up: Bits of
Hip-Hop Caribbean Life"
"An exuberant and revelatory history of the inner-city cultural
revolution that still rocks the world. Jeff Chang is hip-hop's John
Reed."
- Mike Davis, author of "City of Quartz" and "Planet of Slums"
"One of our most insightful commentators on urban music takes a
panoramic survey of hip-hop's entirety. . .Authoritative, incisive,
and entertaining, "Can't Stop Won't Stop" is a massive
achievement."
- Simon Reynolds, author of "Rip It Up And Start Again: Postpunk
1978-84 "and "Generation Ecstasy"
"Don't be misled; this is not just another rap book. .
.inflammatory, illuminating, and anything but myopic, the scope of
Chang's work is awe-inspiring."
- DJ Shadow, hip-hop artist, Endtroducing and The Private Press
"This book belongs on your shelf next to Criminal Minded, Illmatic
and All Eyez On Me."
- William Jelani Cobb, Ph.D, author of "To The Break of Dawn: A
Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic"
"Orale pues-"Can't Stop Won't Stop" draws from the fire, verve,
rage, injustices, pains, victories, and creativity of a whole
generation of marginalized, forgotten, pissed-on and pissed-off
youth."
- Luis J. Rodriguez, author of "Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang
Days in LA" and "Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent
Times"
"Jeff Chang backspins the uninterrogated truisms that plague so
much hip hop scholarship. . ."Can't Stop Won't Stop" is a fluid,
incisive analysis built from the ground up, with plenty of funky
breakdowns."
- Adam Mansbach, author of "Angry White Boy" and "Shackling
Water"
"Has any scholar ever loved hip hop so well-and taken it as
seriously-as Jeff Chang does in "Can't Stop Won't Stop"?"
- Bill Adler, author of "Tougher Than Leather"
"From the intellectual roots of Black cultural and political
movements to the emergence of hip-hop activism, "Can't Stop Won't
Stop" is the most comprehensive book out on hip-hop."
- Henry Chalfant, co-producer Style Wars, co-author of "Subway Art"
and "Spraycan Art"
""Can't Stop Won't Stop" brings us so much closer to fully
understanding the complexities that inspired the Hip-Hop
Generation."
- Mark Anthony Neal, author of "Songs in the Key of Black Life: A
Rhythm and Blues Nation"
"Jeff Chang has created a new rhythm in hip-hop writing. A
must-read and an instant classic."
- B+ (Brian Cross), photographer, producer/director of Keepintime,
and author of "It's Not About A Salary"
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