epub |eng | | Author:Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

It’s Complicated Theorizing through the ’hoodjab, I hold that Muslim Cool is a technology of racial-religious performativity that constructs and “shores up” social identity. The ’hoodjab marked my teachers’ identities ...

epub |eng | 2016-05-16 | Author:Jasmine Guy

The trees outside my bay window burst with color. It's a warm autumn day. A clean fresh breeze hits my face, and I smell detergent. "I love when people do ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-07 | Author:Ethan Brown [Brown, Ethan]

There is no disputing the fact that post-Chronic rappers like CMC’s Chris Black and DMX came from rough neighborhoods and occasionally hustled to make ends meet. But instead of rhyming ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Johnson, Albert "Prodigy" [Johnson, Albert "Prodigy"]

“On the rec!” The loud, obnoxious, military-style shout from the CO abruptly woke me from my sleep. He was letting the whole dorm know it was time for recreation. Pulling ...

epub |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Serrano, Shea

DMX Death Threats Gun Death: 35, Generic Threat: 20, Beat Up to Death: 6, Non-Gun Weapon: 5, Robbery Death: 2, Death by Truth: 1 “Niggas wanna lie/Then niggas wonder why/Niggas ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jeff Chang

The further critics got from the theater, the more the question hardened: come on, Spike, just exactly what is the right thing? In these upside-down times, political pundits and cultural ...

epub |eng | 2015-08-10 | Author:Rich Terfry [Terfry, Rich]

“So what is it you do for a living now, Johnny?” I asked. Johnny became very excited. His eyes lit up as he gazed at the road ahead of us. ...

epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Peter Guralnick [GURALNICK, PETER]

Robert Pete is still working on new techniques today. Just before we arrived he had bought himself a rack harmonica, and he was anxious that we hear him play slide, ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-02-02 | Author:Zack O'Malley Greenburg

Amid the aftermath of the divorce between Jay-Z and Cristal, Branson B.—the self-described street entrepreneur who’d introduced the star-crossed lovers nearly two decades earlier through the Notorious B.I.G.—found himself in ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Anthony Bozza [Bozza, Anthony]

I’m on a mission and my mission won’t stop: Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre in 1993. On the West Coast, a group of artists, most of whom met at the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-03-24 | Author:Karrine Steffans

apart side of the work that we had to do. But he remained professional, and I remained desirous. At the end of the first shooting day, I left the set ...

epub |eng | 2013-07-22 | Author:Mark Costello & David Foster Wallace [Costello, Mark & Wallace, David Foster]

If this were an MGM musical, now might be an excellent moment for Barbara Eden to break into song, leading everybody (Malcolm X, the Tampa Police Chief, Dr. Bellows) in ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-04 | Author:Monk, Buddha & Hess, Mickey [Monk, Buddha & Hess, Mickey]

CHAPTER 11 THE MAN IN THE RED SUIT Dirty was so excited about the Grammys that he bought a new suit, rented a limo, and bought a bouquet of flowers ...

epub |eng | 2012-12-11 | Author:50 Cent [Cent, 50]

We had a crack house on 140th Avenue that wasn’t necessarily a crack house but the house of a crack fiend who wanted so many hits so often that she ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2002-12-02 | Author:Scott, Cathy [Scott, Cathy]

• • • While in prison, Tupac obsessed in his isolation and became convinced that Biggie and Puffy had helped set up the Quad Studios’ ambush. The case, however, would ...