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Gunshots in My Cook-Up : Bits and Bites from a Hip-Hop Caribbean Life - Selwyn Seyfu Hinds

Gunshots in My Cook-Up

Bits and Bites from a Hip-Hop Caribbean Life

By: Selwyn Seyfu Hinds

Paperback | 6 January 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Selwyn Seyfu Hindsaward-winning former editor-in-chief of The Sourcepresents an extraordinary memoir/history of hip-hop as seen through the eyes of one fan-turned-luminary.

The moment nine-year-old Hinds heard "Rapper's Delight" in Guyana, he embarked upon an amazing, if occasionally contentious, relationship with hip-hop—one that would continue through his migration to Brooklyn as a teenager and on through adult life. Here, he takes readers to a murky nightclub in the violent streets of late-eighties Brooklyn; to an Ivy League campus caught up in political rap during the early nineties; to a curbside in Los Angeles where Notorious B.I.G. has just been shot; to the achingly poor streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as a sea of black humanity surges to touch a hip-hop native son.

Interspersing recollections of life in the hip-hop trenches with profiles of figures like Lauryn Hill, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Dr. Dre, Wyclef Jean, and more, Hinds traces the heights and depths of his hip-hop love affair. Like the Guyanese rice dish "cook-up," Gunshots in My Cook-Up ingeniously pulls wide-ranging elements into an irresistibly cohesive dish.
Industry Reviews
Russell Simmons [Hinds does] for hip-hop what Langston Hughes did for jazz.

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