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Tha Global Cipha is the first book about Hip Hop Culture to present in-depth conversations with artists from around the world, representing the many regions of the United States (from the "East Coast" to the "West Coast" to the "Dirty South"), France, the Caribbean (from Jamaica to Puerto Rico), and Africa (from Algeria to Senegal), as well as street musics like Reggaeton, Dancehall, Shaabi and Raï. Conversations with Jay-Z, Afrika Bambaataa, Mos Def, Eve, Sean Paul, DJ Dee Nasty, Young Jeezy, Foxy Brown, Booba, Buju Banton, Mannie Fresh, Tego Calderon and many others, demonstrate these artists to be critical interpreters of their own culture and of the world around them. Here is a book that presents a remarkably refreshing and revealing view of Hip Hop Culture from the inside-out... Enter tha global cipha!!!

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REVIEWS OF THE BOOK:

“Y’all documenting this culture, our stories, our thoughts, and it’s so important ‘cause nobody else is doing that. You’re puttin’ in every word we say. That’s what’s up!”
– Xzibit, Hip Hop artist and actor

"The best hip-hop scholarship book of 2006 (and maybe 2007)… [An] essential resource and reference for serious hip-hop scholars… Spady, Alim and Meghelli are keenly concerned with letting the artists speak for themselves, not mediating their voices."
– Jeff Chang, American Book Award-winning author of Can't Stop, Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

“Tha Global Cipha: Hip Hop Culture and Consciousness isn't just a matter of words – multigenerational totems from Blowfly to Mos Def – raining down like fists upon hip-hop's history. There's also a mountain of pictures to be found in this documentary-style page turner, trimmed to a scant 704 pages from its original 1,500… You can call it the new movement's Bible – an Encyclopedia Britannica even…”
– Philadelphia City Paper

"An amazing work and a wonderful source of information. It's a real privilege for me to be in such company."
– Henry Chalfant, co-producer of Style Wars, on his inclusion in Tha Global Cipha

"I am honored to be included in Tha Global Cipha. It has Hip Hop artists from around the world: Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and throughout the United States. This book has all of them: Beanie Sigel, Damon Dash... And it has CORNBREAD. I want to tell anybody that's about Hip Hop Culture to get your own copy of this book. If you want the history of Hip Hop, check out Tha Global Cipha."
– CORNBREAD, the Pioneer Hip Hop Graffiti Writer

"A groundbreaking project... that traverses and unites various geophysical and metaphysical spaces – the text is indeed Global."
– George Yancy, editor of Cornel West: A Critical Reader and The Philosophical i

To contact the authors with feedback, questions, or comments, e-mail: authors@thaglobalcipha.com


To request an interview with the authors or a review copy of the book, or to inquire about booking a speaking engagement, e-mail: info@thaglobalcipha.com