Description
| Product ID: | 9781909526891 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Book Of Rhyme & Reason |
| Authors: | Author: Peter Spirer |
| Page Count: | 224 |
| Subjects: | Popular music, Rap & Hip-Hop |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating In the mid-nineties, documentarian Peter Spirer embarked on a three-year odyssey to offer a realistic view of Hip-Hop and the people and culture it encompassed, interviewing over 80 artists involved in the art form. Spirer managed to capture a seminal moment as the culture balanced on the cusp of the mainstream. As Ice-T comments in his foreword to the book, ''Rhyme & Reason is one of the few films that was there to document us before Hip-Hop truly exploded.'' Spirer''s goal was to make a film, ''for anyone who''s at a traffic light and gets intimidated by another car pulling up with a fat sound-system. I wanted to give an understanding of where that was coming from and what it was all about.'' While filming, Spirer took accompanying stills using a medium format Rolleiflex camera. It is these photographs that form THE BOOK OF RHYME & REASON. ''The Rollei allowed me to capture some amazing moments: Puffy getting a trim in his office while doing three tasks at once, Biggie opening record plaques on his couch, Ice-T and Mack 10 hanging with their homies, Heavy D at the barber, playing pool. There was the Jack The Rapper convention with Death Row making a statement, at a Disney World Hotel, that ended in chaos. There were magical moments such as Redman and Erick Sermon freestyling on the mic to amazed onlookers at a block party in Newark and watching Wu-Tang Clan chop it up on the block in Staten Island on a cold winter''s day before they exploded.'' This coffee table volume features over 130 of Spirer''s photographs from 1994 to 1997. As Hip-Hop commemorates its fiftieth anniversary in 2023, it is particularly fitting that many of these images from this formative period are being seen and published for the first time. |
| Imprint Name: | Reel Art Press |
| Publisher Name: | Reel Art Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-11-07 |