Born to use mics : reading Nas's Illmatic / edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dyson, Michael Eric
Daulatzai, Sohail
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Civitas Books, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
Nas > (Musician). > Illmatic.
Nas > (Musician) > Criticism and interpretation.
Rap (Music) > History and criticism.
Physical Description:xi, 308 pages ; 21 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • It was signified : "the genesis" / by Adilfu Nama
  • A rebel to America : "N.Y. state of mind" after the towers fell / by Sohail Daulatzai
  • Time is illmatic : a song for my father, a letter to my son / by Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr.
  • "It's yours" : hip-hop worldviews in the lyrics of Nas / by James Braxton Peterson
  • Critical pedagogy comes at halftime : Nas as black public intellectual / by Marc Lamont Hill
  • "Memory lane" : on jazz, hip-hop, and fathers / by Mark Anthony Neal
  • "One love," two brothers, thre verses / by Michael Eric Dyson
  • "One time 4 your mind" : embedding Nas and hip-hop into a gendered state of mind / by Kyra D. Gaunt
  • "Represent," Queensbridge, and the art of living / by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
  • "It ain't hard to tell" : a story of lyrical transcendence / by Imani Perry.