Westside: Young Men and Hip Hop in L.a.
- List Price: $23.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
Description:
In the late eighties hip hop was revolutionized by the hard new sound that exploded from Los Angeles. The exhilirating and disturbing new music from the West Coast was honest and descriptive of a place where drugs, guns, sex, and life are cheap and disposable, and the struggle for success, stability, and respect were hard fought.
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Today, the scene is set for Westside, journalist William Shaw's hauntingly beautiful chronicle of seven young African-American men struggling to transform their urban experience into the platinum success enjoyed by rappers like Tupac Shakur and Dr. Dre. The sometimes troubled products of a neighborhood riddled with violence, these seven young men look to hip hop as their only viable form of expression, as their key to survival and as their greatest hope for escape.
Equal parts music journalism, travel writings and urban history, Westside is literary nonfiction at its best, revealing a place and a way of life rarely seen and little understood.
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