{"product_id":"gunshots-in-my-cook-up-bits-and-bites-from-a-hip-hop-caribbean-life-9780743451376","title":"Gunshots in My Cook-Up: Bits and Bites from a Hip-Hop Caribbean Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelwyn Seyfu Hinds\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eaward-winning former editor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eThe Source\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003epresents an extraordinary memoir\/history of hip-hop as seen through the eyes of one fan-turned-luminary.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe moment nine-year-old Hinds heard \"Rapper's Delight\" in Guyana, he embarked upon an amazing, if occasionally contentious, relationship with hip-hop--one that would continue through his migration to Brooklyn as a teenager and on through adult life. Here, he takes readers to a murky nightclub in the violent streets of late-eighties Brooklyn; to an Ivy League campus caught up in political rap during the early nineties; to a curbside in Los Angeles where Notorious B.I.G. has just been shot; to the achingly poor streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as a sea of black humanity surges to touch a hip-hop native son. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInterspersing recollections of life in the hip-hop trenches with profiles of figures like Lauryn Hill, Sean \"P. Diddy\" Combs, Dr. Dre, Wyclef Jean, and more, Hinds traces the heights and depths of his hip-hop love affair. Like the Guyanese rice dish \"cook-up,\" \u003ci\u003eGunshots in My Cook-Up\u003c\/i\u003e ingeniously pulls wide-ranging elements into an irresistibly cohesive dish.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Atria Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743451376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 5.33w x 0.78d","brand":"Selwyn Seyfu Hinds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403368427701,"sku":"9780743451376","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_5d450232-6d5d-418f-ad6c-1ff5f8098c0e.jpg?v=1774968960","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/gunshots-in-my-cook-up-bits-and-bites-from-a-hip-hop-caribbean-life-9780743451376","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}