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Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music Hardcover – July 25, 2023

by Kiana Fitzgerald (Author), Russell Abrahams (Illustrator)
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Celebrate the music that has shaped the culture and given us some of the greatest hits of all time with this vibrantly illustrated anthology, featuring 50 of the most lauded, controversial, and iconic hip-hop albums!

From underground roots to mainstream popularity, hip-hop's influence on music and entertainment around the world has been nothing short of extraordinary. Ode to Hip-Hop chronicles the journey with profiles of fifty albums that have defined, expanded, and ultimately transformed the genre into what it is today. From 2 Live Crew's groundbreaking As Nasty As They Wanna Be in 1989 to Cardi B's similarly provocative Invasion of Privacy almost thirty years later, and more, Ode to Hip-Hop covers hip-hop from coast to coast. Organized by decade and with sidebars on fashion, mixtapes, and key players throughout, the result is a comprehensive homage to hip-hop, published just in time for the fiftieth anniversary. Enjoyed in the club, at a party, through speakers or headphones--the albums in this book deserve to be listened to again and again, for the next fifty years and beyond.

Albums featured: Kurtis Blow (self-titled, 1980); The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, 1982); Run-D.M.C (self-titled, 1984), Hot, Cool & Vicious (Salt-N-Pepa, 1986); Paid in Full (Eric B. & Rakim, 1987); Straight Outta Compton (N.W.A, 1988); Lyte as a Rock (MC Lyte, 1988); As Nasty as They Wanna Be (2 Live Crew, 1989); Mama Said Knock You Out (LL Cool J, 1990); People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (A Tribe Called Quest, 1990); The Chronic (Dr. Dre, 1992); Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (Wu-Tang Clan, 1993); Black Reign (Queen Latifah, 1993); Doggystyle (Snoop Dogg, 1993); Illmatic (Nas, 1994); Ready to Die (The Notorious B.I.G., 1994); The Diary (Scarface, 1994); Funkdafied (Da Brat, 1994); Mystic Stylez (Three 6 Mafia, 1995); Hard Core (Lil' Kim, 1996); Ridin' Dirty (UGK, 1996); All Eyez On Me (2Pac, 1996); Supa Dupa Fly (Missy Elliott, 1997); Aquemini (Outkast, 1998); The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Lauryn Hill, 1998); It's Dark and Hell Is Hot (DMX, 1998); Things Fall Apart (The Roots, 1999); Da Baddest B***h (Trina, 2000); The Marshall Mathers LP (Eminem, 2000); The Blueprint (JAY-Z, 2001); Lord Willin' (Clipse, 2002); Get Rich or Die Tryin' (50 Cent, 2003); The College Dropout (Kanye West, 2004); Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 (Young Jeezy, 2005); King (T.I., 2006); Lupe Fiasco's the Cool (Lupe Fiasco, 2007); The Carter III (Lil Wayne, 2008); The State vs. Radric Davis (Gucci Mane, 2009); Pink Friday (Nicki Minaj, 2010); Watch the Throne (JAY-Z & Kanye West, 2011); Nothing Was the Same (Drake, 2013); To Pimp a Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar, 2015); DS2 (Future, 2015); Culture (Migos, 2017); Invasion of Privacy (Cardi B., 2018); Whack World (Tierra Whack, 2018); Eve (Rapsody, 2019); City on Lock (City Girls, 2020); Montero (Lil Nas X, 2021); Traumazine (Megan Thee Stallion, 2022)
 
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Celebrate the music that has shaped the culture and given us some of the greatest hits of all time!
Ode to Hip-Hop traces the genre's explosive birth and extraordinary influence.

Illustration of Kurtis Blow

Illustration of Missy Elliott

Illustration of Jay-Z

“Kurtis Blow provided a blueprint for the format of hip-hop that we know and love today. The different styles of rap that Blow explored, as well as the crossgenre influences he tinkered with, gave his successors room to move freely and creatively.”

“Brimming with limitless ambition, Supa Dupa Fly entered the Billboard 200 at number three, the highest-charting debut for a female rapper at the time… A short series of funked-out, avant-garde studio sessions with Timbaland turned into one of the most influential albums of hiphop/R&B history.”

“The Blueprint became a salve for a grieving nation, a portrait of a robust New York City that shaped one of hip-hop’s leading figures. In 2019, the album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry, the first entry of the twenty-first century.”

Illustration of mix tapes

“Interlude: The Art of the Mixtape,” an excerpt from Ode to Hip-Hop

In the 1970s and into the early ’80s, mixtapes were a tangible item of pride. They were popularized in this era by legendary DJs like Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Hollywood, who distributed a limited number of ‘party tape’ cassette recordings of their impressive club performances.

Once hip-hop became a viable recording option, the tapes transitioned from being the only way to hear high-quality DJing and MCing to being an art form in and of themselves, one that was closely tied to the streets. In the early 1990s, DJs like Ron G, Doo Wop, Kid Capri, S&S, and, later, DJ Clue and Kay Slay transformed the mixtape from a physical copy of a live show to a full-on listening experience. These artists revolutionized the concept by curating the best of the best, and premiering hot new music.

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About the Author

Kiana Fitzgerald is a freelance music journalist, cultural critic, and DJ. Her writing credits include Billboard, The Cut, NPR, Complex, Nylon Magazine, and Rolling Stone, among other publications. She writes for the world from deep in the heart of Texas.

Yay Abe is the illustration studio name of Cape Town-based illustrator Russell Abrahams. As an extension of his personality, his designs are best described as colorful, playful, and able to own any space.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Running Press Adult (July 25, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0762482974
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0762482979
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.3 x 1 x 8.3 inches
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Geordai Fitzgerald
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully done!
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2023
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Definitely a must have, sets the scene for each decade of hip hop, love the side bars throughout each chapter, I learned a lot about each artist and their influence. The artwork is amazing as well, such an awesome keepsake!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Well done, but with some glaring omissions.
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2023
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The book is almost there. Love the concept, love the beautiful illustrations, and lots of it is great. But giving whole sections to Da Brat, Lil Nas X and City Girls and excluding significant mentions of pioneering legends like the De La Soul, Beastie Boys, KRS and Big Daddy Kane is a mindblowing miss.

License To Ill and Three Feet High and Riding are seminal albums that totally changed the game. You simply CANNOT leave them out.
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