The Big Payback: The History of the Business of

The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop Dan Charnas
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Posted on December 18, 2010 by phife1. He has a long history in the entertainment business, but he recently published one of the greatest books on hip-hop of all time. Like this: Like Loading This entry was posted in Book of the Month, First Look, Music. It's called the Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip Hop. His new gargantuan book is, I think, one of the better books about hip hop I've ever read. The transformation of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons from the recreational drug-using, model-chasing manager of seminal 1980s rap artists Run-DMC, LL Cool J and. I slept on this but peep below: Dan Charnas, author of The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop has launched a companion video series to accompany the critically acclaimed new book. The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop by Dan Charnas will be published next week by New American Library/Penguin. As 1990s entrepreneurs like Suge Knight made the rap business virtually synonymous with invective and violence, Simmons stood above them as a relative paragon of virtue, achieving unmatched success with humor and hustle rather than brutality. THE BIG PAYBACK: THE HISTORY OF THE BUSINESS OF HIP-HOP by Dan Charnas (New American Library): (4.5 stars out of 5). Dan Charnas, thanks for being on The Sound of Young America. His name is Dan Charnas, author of “The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip Hop,” about the business of hip hop. I recently read Dan Charnas' book, "The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop" and although the first half off the book was a bit mundane, the second half more than made up for it. The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop. And he and I have been friends for some time. Dan Charnas is the author of The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop (New American Library/Penguin) and the co-author of Def Jam: The First 25 Years of the Last Great record Label (Rizzoli). As the author of “The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop,” Charnas delves into the culture's growth from a form of musical expression in the inner-city to a global, multi-billion dollar industry. In his new book, “The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop”, Dan Charnas traces how rap grew from the ghettos of 70s New York to world's predominant youth pop culture and a multi-billion dollar industry. The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop The Big Payback takes readers from the first made by a rapping DJ in 1970s New York to the.