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
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