Best rap & hip-hop musicians biographies according to redditors

For anyone wondering this is a real book and it is both hilarious and poignant. I'd highly recommend it.

Black people wanting to know how be a black friend or how to be a better black friend, should check out How to be Black.

(Everyone who isn't black should also read it, but mostly because it is inspiring and hilarious)

It's a real book, guys

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062003224/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1478406941&sr=1-1&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=how+to+be+black&dpPl=1&dpID=41F7kGUmSHL&ref=plSrch

in snoop's autobiography he says

1. he was called snoop basically from birth. so i think we can safely assume he was born a dogg
   
   
2. he smoked weed for the first time when he was 12 years old
   
   
3. he smoked about an ounce a day once he hit his stride
   
   Snoop turned 40 in October and turned into a lion in what? like June? to compensate for the fact that he def didn't start at an ounce a day, I'm gonna say he started smoking an ounce a day when he was 16. So that's 24 years and 8 months at an ounce a day. So that's about 563 pounds.
   
   So I'm gonna say, assuming that the effect is cumulative, you should force your dog to smoke about 570 pounds of weed, just to be safe, to turn him into a lion.

Mainly because she recently released a book and album this year that were pretty darn good, I've been relistening to Dessa a lot.

Chime (2018) has some amazing songs about heartbreak and loss. Good Grief is my favorite off that album

A Badly Broken Code(2005) was her debut album and my favorite however. The Chaconne and Dixon's Girl are my two favorite songs off that album.

This book helped me understand what I've been doing wrong my whole life.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224

https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-While-Black-Voice-Education/dp/0823271412

Recommended further reading.

Interview with Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYeowPQGVt4

Actually sounds like an interesting book.....well there goes $12 to Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0062003224/ref=mw_dp_mdsc?dsc=1

Yes, yes. This scenario is kind of the whole point of the title.

Anyway, If you like The Onion or The Daily Show, you'd enjoy How To Be Black (even if you aren't). Baratunde Thurston (the author) is a director and a producer of both, respectively. And, just to make absolutely sure the rest of us feel like unaccomplished shlubs, he's also a fellow at the MIT Media Lab.

This book was written by Baratunde Thurston, published in 2012. https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224

He has been an occasional guest on This Week in Tech, was digital director for The Onion, and is currently the supervising producer of original digital content for the Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

He’s also funny as fuck.

I sent you a PM in case r/venting has a issue with posting links.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224

I wonder if this young scholar had read this book: http://www.amazon.com/How-Black-Enhanced-Edition-ebook/dp/B0071CNGME/ref=tmm_kin_title_0/176-4834974-0499143?ie=UTF8&m=A3QI763M62X7GQ

With honest storytelling and biting wit, Baratunde plots a path not just to blackness, but one open to anyone interested in simply "how to be."

Years after he died, she wrote Afeni Shakur's memoir. I highly recommend it.

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There you go

I thought that some of the men behind "Stuff White People Like" were Asian? I can't find tell given a quick google search but somehow I feel like I read that in "How to to be Black."

http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224/

Hmm. True crime isn't often known for being well written. But check out Public Enemies by Bryan Burroughs, Columbine by Dave Cullen, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, and of course, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. T.J. English has written some supposedly good stuff, and (being from Boston) I can recommend some good books on Whitey Bulger, including Brutal, Black Mass and Rat Bastards.

If you're looking for stuff on actual murderers, it's going to be a little harder. Most of that stuff is crap. I guess the old standbys are Helter Skelter, The Stranger Beside Me, and BTK.

According to /u/Here_Comes_The_King's autobio (yes, I know), they actually got the name Crips from their original name Cribs (reference to the young age of the members), and an Asian market owner was reporting that he got jacked by a gang, in his accent, sounded like Crips.

The first part of that seems to be "Wikipedia true".

Root For The Villain: Rap, Bull$hit, and a Celebration of Failure by J-Zone (who, if you're familiar with his music, is equally funny in his book)

Hip Hop Family Tree by Ed Piskor (it's a graphic novel focusing on the early days of hip hop done in the style of 90s Image comics)

How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC by Paul Edwards (this is full of interviews with some of the greatest of all time discussing every single aspect of rapping)

There's also The Wu-Tang Manual and The Tao of Wu, both by RZA and both very good for Wu-Tang fans.

If you think she may be interested in books on specific albums, the 33 1/3 series has quite a few on some of the genres greatest albums: Illmatic, Paul's Boutique, Donuts, People's Instinctive Travels And the Paths of Rhythm, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. She may enjoy Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic, which is a more scholarly approach to Illmatic, although admittedly not for everyone (if critical theory isn't her thing probably pass on this one).

Recently finished Raymond Chandler's 'The Long Goodbye'.

Currently jumping back and forth between 'How to be Black' by Baratunde Thurston and 'This is going to Hurt' by Adam Kay.

You mean that you didn't pick up your manual?!

The book

Nothing to take creep shots over.

HERE

Here you go
http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224

I see that word 'guilty' thrown around a lot on this issue.

I'll be clear, I think the systemic oppression of blacks in the US is an enormous crime and the ramifications will be felt for probably thousands of years.

That said, I don't want anybody to feel guilty. Guilty feelings aren't going to make anything better, it's a negative emotion that breaks you down as a person. Guilt isn't something you should feel, but you should be aware of the advantages you have and the disadvantages other people have. It's that blindness to the privilege that just makes people furious -- And even not having contributed to slavery in your past, your whiteness has led to you benefiting from racist society. Like this comic illustrates (someone else in the thread linked it already, good comic though.).

It's only natural that people get downright angry about it. Some people will be furious. Some people get so many doors slammed in their faces that they get bitter, and they start only seeing the advantaged as cogs in the system of oppression. That's not a good thing of course, but can you really blame them? A lifetime of being generalized and marginalized, those frustrations are going to go somewhere. I'm sorry if people are always venting on you, but a lot of people just want to see some awareness of that privilege -- some perspective on what it means to be white versus what it means to be black in this country.

That book reddit is always making fun of, 'How to Be Black', is actually a very funny but sometimes very painful book for anybody to read about racial issues in America. If Reddit would stop laughing at its hilariously over-repeated joke pretending it's an instruction manual and read it, they'd understand the title. I don't know, just an example of something I see popping up a lot that shows a lack of perspective. But anyway, good luck to you and thanks for the response.

https://www.amazon.com/Rat-Bastards-Boston-Mobster-Everyone/dp/0061232890

Dude who did his time and didn't testify against his mentor (Whitey Bulger) despite his mentor having shared information about the author to the FBI.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224

> The Onion’s Baratunde Thurston shares his 30-plus years of expertise in being black, with helpful essays like “How to Be the Black Friend,” “How to Speak for All Black People,” “How To Celebrate Black History Month,” and more, in this satirical guide to race issues—written for black people and those who love them. Audacious, cunning, and razor-sharp, How to Be Black exposes the mass-media’s insidiously racist, monochromatic portrayal of black culture’s richness and variety. Fans of Stuff White People Like, This Week in Blackness, and Ending Racism in About an Hour will be captivated, uplifted, incensed, and inspired by this hilarious and powerful attack on America’s blacklisting of black culture: Baratunde Thurston’s How to Be Black.

Book covers aren't allowed? Amazon site book

Either way...whatever :)

http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Black-Baratunde-Thurston/dp/0062003224

Then explain this!

Yep, mob is Irish and and mafia is Italian. At least that's how it was explained in "Rat Bastards".

https://www.amazon.com/Rat-Bastards-Boston-Mobster-Everyone/dp/0061232890