Exploring Hip-Hop

The Rap on Rap: Straight- up Talk on Hip-hop Culture is a book written by Adam Sexton it focuses on a collection of articles on Hip hop with varied topics and opinions about each one. Adam Sexton is the author of the nonfiction books Rap on Rap (Dell) and Desperately Seeking Madonna (Dell) and he is the creator/editor of the fiction collection Love Stories (Kensington). His novella Bed Time was a finalist in the Andre Dubus Novella Competition, and his short fiction has appeared in the Mississippi Review and the Bellevue Literary Review. His nonfiction has appeared in numerous publications, including the New York Times, Details, the Village Voice, the Boston Phoenix, and the Philadelphia City Paper. He wrote the CliffsNotes for A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises, and he is a contributor to Prentice-Hall's Grammar and Composition series. He has taught at New School University, NYU, SUNY, the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers, Marymount Manhattan College, and Parsons School of Design. Adam holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. This bio information was obtained at writingclasses.com. (http://www.writingclasses.com/FacultyBios/facultyBioByInstructor.php/TeacherID/21367).
This book would be interesting to me for a number of reasons one being that even though I am a part of the hip-hop community, I don’t know very much about it. I lesson to hip-hop and enjoy it but if someone was to ask me about the music I’d be lost. The book would enlighten me about past issues and history about the music game and artists of the 90’s and past when the book was written. I believe this is important because this era of hip-hop is most important than it is now seeing that it has changed a lot in a couple of decades.