Hip hop culture was born in the Bronx and incubated for nearly a decade before being discovered by a young journalist who had just arrived from the Midwest. After writing the first positive article on graffiti in the New York Daily News, the journalist was fired and spent the next five years working as a freelancer covering the convergence of punk and hip hop in the East Village. This book is the holy grail of hip hop journalism and the only book that even talks about Phase 2’s influence on the culture.
