The Depressingly Representative Story
Posted by Richard on Tuesday, 26 April 2005
Kevin Y. Yim reviews Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation by Jeff Chang: “Social, political and economic developments are harder to track in the jump-cutting collage Chang adopts, in true hip-hop style, for his mostly cultural history. Instead, key breaks typically sped over by other chroniclers receive extended treatment, such as the emergence and struggles of Jamaican reggae, ’70s-era Bronx gang life and its relation to hip-hop, the spectacular rise and fall of Public Enemy, and the depressingly representative story of how The Source went from one of hip-hop’s finest magazines to one of its most compromised.”