GAME AUTHORS 1ST BOOK

March 16th, 2012 | By

“I wanted to give my fans a behind-the-scenes look of how my new album came to be,” Game says.. GRAB THE FULL REPORT HERE

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Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Paperback)

January 30th, 2010 | By

Boston Globe “[Bradley] lays out a nuanced, academically rigorous argument that the best hip-hop deserves attention as genuine artistry…He traces the word rhythm from the Greek rheo, or flow. Biggie had flow; Jay-Z has flow. For an English professor, Adam Bradley got some flow of his own.”Dallas Morning News “Excellent…Where so many hip-hop studies lean heavily on politics and sociology, Book of Rhymes is a welcome and thorough exploration of rap aesthetics that isn’t afraid to be learned.” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “As comfortable in the company of Jay-Z as he is with John Donne, Adam Bradley is a visionary critic, skillful and wise. His Book of Rhymes is a tour de force, brilliantly renovating hip hop criticism as he rescues the forgotten vanguard of American poetry.” Cornel West “Adam Bradley’s Book of Rhymes is a marvelous exploration into the poetic genius of rap and the cultural gravity of Hip Hop. His analysis is subtle, sophisticate (more…)