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   Dec 7, 2010 · The Big Payback isn't just the most comprehensive journalistic account of hip-hop ever written — it's a mature, Pulitzer-worthy work, an integral account of essential urban history on a par with Robert A. Caro's The Power Broker.

   • 4.4/5 (1.2K)
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   • Author: Dan Charnas

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   Jan 4, 2011 · “The Big Payback” is ostensibly the history of the business of hip-hop, but in its ambitious scope (it starts with no less than America’s first treasurer, Alexander Hamilton) and exhaustive...

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   From the first time that DJ Hollywood makes $15 for picking up a microphone, to the multimillion-dollar sales of Def Jam and Rocawear, The Big Payback tracks the evolution of hip-hop and follows the people who fought behind the scenes to make it happen.

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   Fantastic book. Not just a history of how different acts got started, but the spread of hip-hop across the country, and the fight to get it on to the radio, on MTV, into the stores. Great read.

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   Nov 1, 2011 · The Big Payback is a large book because it attempts to cover a vast subject, but Charnas does a good job of focusing on the most pivotal moments in the business of hip hop and then telling each story in a compelling fashion that makes you want to keep reading, even when he jumps to another subject.

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   • Author: Dan Charnas

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   • Brand: Berkley

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   • According to Cheo H. Coker, co-screenwriter of Notorious and author of Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G., 'The Big Payback is a stunning achievement'. Not only does it pack in countless unprecedented anecdotes about hip-hop that you can't find anywhere else, the read is effortlessly smooth.

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   • It wasn’t an accident. In The Big Payback, Dan Charnas chronicles the history of the hip-hop industry through its key players—hungry hustlers, innovative entrepreneurs, visionary handlers, and shrewd executives who had the business acumen to take the music of a marginal urban subculture and transform it into a mainstream phenomenon.

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   • The Big Payback is worth reading for music lovers and business aficionados alike. It reveals the secret histories of the early long-shot successes of Sugar Hill Records and Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC’s crossover breakthrough on MTV, the marketing of gangsta rap, and the rise of artist/entrepreneurs like Jay-Z and Sean “Diddy” Combs.

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8. www.penguinrandomhouse.com › books › 303054The Big Payback by Dan Charnas: 9780451234780 ...

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   “One of the juiciest, flat-out most enjoyable books I’ve read in a long time.”—The Atlantic “Epic.”—The Village Voice “[A] stylish, lavishly detailed love letter to the genre and industry…Charnas makes an elegant case for how hip-hop is the consummate art form.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)