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Features seven young men, who are trying to make it in the rap business. This work follows the changes in their musical and personal lives as they try and get shows, auditions, record demos. What they all share is the experience of growing up in a place that is far more violent than the one their parents grew up in.

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'Westsiders is best read as a homage to the artists, fly-boys and fly-posters often working for props and freebies.These are poignant tales' I-D 'Shaw succeeds in piecing together an intriguing apologia for gangster rap that deserves to be read by everyone from Charlton Heston downwards *****' Q (Book of the Month) 'As definitive a portrait of contemporary hip-hop and young black lifestyles as has been written. A shocking and highly readable report from America's front line' The Times

Westsiders

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    A Paperback by William Shaw

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 2 May 2001
      ISBN-13 9780747552505
      978-0747552505
      ISBN-10 0747552509

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Features seven young men, who are trying to make it in the rap business. This work follows the changes in their musical and personal lives as they try and get shows, auditions, record demos. What they all share is the experience of growing up in a place that is far more violent than the one their parents grew up in.

      Trade Review
      'Westsiders is best read as a homage to the artists, fly-boys and fly-posters often working for props and freebies.These are poignant tales' I-D 'Shaw succeeds in piecing together an intriguing apologia for gangster rap that deserves to be read by everyone from Charlton Heston downwards *****' Q (Book of the Month) 'As definitive a portrait of contemporary hip-hop and young black lifestyles as has been written. A shocking and highly readable report from America's front line' The Times

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