Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Author: Jeff Chang
Desc: Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created. Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston Jamaica hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization hip-hop crystallized a multiracial polycultural generation's worldview and transformed American politics and culture. But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth insight and style. Based on original interviews with DJs b-boys rappers graffiti writers activists and gang members with unforgettable portraits of many of hip-hop's forebears founders and mavericks including DJ Kool Herc Afrika Bambaataa Chuck D and Ice Cube Can't Stop Won't Stop chronicles the events the ideas the music and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the 60's into the new millennium.