Can't Stop Won't Stop (book)

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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
OCLC
62860625

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation is a 2005 book by

hip hop
scene.

The book features portraits of

rappers, and hip hop activists. DJ Kool Herc
wrote the introduction.

Reception

The book was well received, winning an

American Book Award in 2005.[1] On Metacritic, the book received an aggregate score of 81/100 from twelve reviews—indicating "universal acclaim".[2]
LA Weekly praised the book as being "extensively researched and meticulously written"[2] and The New Yorker described it as "one of the most urgent and passionate histories of popular music ever written".[2]

The book was criticized for its focus on the political aspects. According to

Biggie Smalls and Missy Elliott get just one mention apiece, and Eminem is excluded from history altogether." says The Independent.[5]

KRS-One’s criticism

In 2007,

Kool Herc thrown at the front of the book for his own credibility – and the foreword was wack."[6] His main point of contention was with the way he himself was covered: "[Jeff Chang] gets around to the Stop The Violence movement and totally down-plays the movement, destroys any kind of hope we have for leadership in our culture, and just breezes over with inaccurate information about the Stop The Violence movement."[6]

Jeff Chang responded: "Can’t Stop Won’t Stop was and is never meant to be the last word on anything. It’s meant to be a small contribution to the larger wave of thinking about the hip-hop generation."[7]

Notes

  • Chang, Jeff (2005). Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. Picador,
    ISBN 0-312-42579-1
    .

References

  1. ^ The American Book Awards / Before Columbus Foundation Archived 2011-10-03 at the Wayback Machine. American Booksellers Association. Accessed July 11, 2008.
  2. ^ a b c Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff Chang: Reviews. Metacritic. Accessed July 11, 2008.
  3. ^ Abramovich, Alex (September 4, 2005). "'Can't Stop Won't Stop': A Nation of Millions". The New York Times.
  4. ^ Abramovich, Alex (September 4, 2005). "'Can't Stop Won't Stop': A Nation of Millions". The New York Times.
  5. ^ Thompson, Ben (28 August 2005). "Can't Stop Won't Stop: a history of the hip-hop generation by Jeff Chang". The Independent. London. Retrieved 4 May 2010.[dead link]
  6. ^ a b KRS-One – The Unkut Interview | unkut.com - A Tribute To Ignorance (Remix)
  7. ^ KRS-One on Can’t Stop Won’t Stop « Can’t Stop Won’t Stop

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