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Matt Mason - The Pirate's Dilemma
Matt Mason shares his perspective from The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism to show that pirates make better radio, trainers and ads.
Note for the Yanks: trainers = sneakers.
Terrance Dean: Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music to Hollywood
Terrance Dean's Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music to Hollywood is due May 13th from Atria Books.
Press Release:
SOHH.COM LAUNCHES NEW "CONFESSIONS OF DOWN LOW LIFE, LOVE AND SEX IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY" BLOG WITH AUTHOR TERRANCE DEAN
Rollin' with Dre: The Unauthorized Account
Rollin' with Dre: The Unauthorized Account: An Insider's Tale of the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of West Coast Hip Hop by Bruce Williams with Donnell Alexander is due today from One World/Ballantine.
From LiveDaily:
New Dr. Dre Book To Be Released This Week
After reading Nolan Strong's report at AllHipHop that Ethan Brown's Snitch: Informers, Cooperators & the Corruption of Justice had been banned by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, I dropped Ethan a note about the matter.
Mr. Strong quotes from what I assume is a letter to Ethan Brown from the BOP:
"'The publication has been rejected because it contains information about other Bureau of Prisons incarcerated individuals,' the letter stated. 'This information has been determined to be detrimental to the security, good order and discipline of the institution. Due to the reasons cited, the above-named publication is not suited for introduction into a correctional facility.'"
Ethan confirmed that "the word from the BOP official is that Snitch 'is not suited for introduction into a correctional facility'" and he stated:
"In Snitch I wrote about the history of the sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimums as well as specific cases involving on the record cooperation deals. So, Snitch isn't about 'exposing' informants or supporting the stop snitching ethos--therefore, I strongly disagree that the book is not appropriate for federal prisons."
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats by Grandmaster Flash with David Ritz is due June 10th from Harlem Moon.
Grandmaster Flash has also relaunched GrandmasterFlash.com.
Press Release:
THE ORIGINAL HIP HOP DJ, Grandmaster Flash, Launched His New Website In Celebration of Black History Month
Jacki-O - Grown & Gangsta
Jacki-O's novel Grown & Gangsta was released February 1st as Tru Publishing's first book. The Tru Publishing and Conversations Book Club is hosting the Grown & Gangsta Book Tour featuring Jacko-O in "book discussions and meet and greets in Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana" in early March.
On a side note, Jacki-O came up with my favorite post-altercation one-liner after her bout with Foxy Brown:
"I went to work, and I did not know I would be winning an ass-kicking contest."
Grown & Gangsta Book Tour Schedule:
TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 2008
3-5p.m. --- Meet & Greet/Booksigning @ Margaret Walker Alexander (Jackson, MS) --- FREE
6-8p.m. --- Meet & Greet/Booksigning @ Comfort Inn & Suites in North Jackson (MS) --- FREE
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 2008
1-3P.M. --- Meet & Greet/Booksigning @ Northside Library (Jackson, MS) --- FREE
4-5p.m. --- Book discussion @ Pearl Public Library (Pearl, MS) --- FREE
6-7:30p.m. --- "Passion 4 Fashion Show" @ Pearl Public Library (Pearl, MS), featuring original designs by Gail Ambeau and Leon Collier (Krooked Ledda.) --- FREE
8:30p.m.--- Evening event TBA
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2008
1-3p.m. --- Meet & Greet/ Book Signing @ Richard Wright Library (Jackson, MS) --- FREE
5:30-7p.m. --- "Passion 4 Fashion Show" @ Richard Wright Library (Jackson, MS), featuring original designs by Gail Ambeau and Leon Collier (Krooked Ledda) LIVE PERFORMANCES by Mississippi's own Jack Squad, Great Britt and D. J. Downsouth --- FREE
8:30-10P.M. --- Meet & Greet/Book Signing @ Subway Restaurant (Pearl, MS) --- FREE
FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 2008
Events in New Orleans, LA ---TBA
SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 2008
1-3p.m. --- Meet & Greet/Booksigning in Memphis, TN--- TBA (FREE)
8:30p.m. --- "Grown & Sexy" Meet & Greet @ Comfort Inn & Suites (Pearl, MS)--- FREE
SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 2008
2-4p.m. ---Meet & Greet/Booksigning @ Quality Inn & Suites (2705 E. South Blvd. * Montgomery, AL) --- FREE
For more info please see the press release.
Official Sites:
Tru Publishing
Conversations Book Club
Rap-Up: The Ultimate Guide to Hip-Hop and R&B
Rap-Up magazine's Rap-Up: The Ultimate Guide to Hip-Hop and R&B by Cameron and Devin Lazerine with a foreword by T.I. is due February 29th from Grand Central Publishing.
Nervous Breakdowns: Art of LeSean Thomas
Lulu.com, an online do-it-yourself publish on demand service that keeps improving their offerings, celebrates Black History Month by promoting three books related to African-American topics, two of which have a hip hop connection.
I've written before about The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook while the Soumas Heritage Creole Cookbook sounds tasty but off-topic.
However I was particularly interested to discover Nervous Breakdowns: Art of LeSean Thomas that was published way back in 2006:
"From the Lead Character Designer and Co-Director of Aaron McGruder's "The Boondocks" animated series on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, comes the unique, hip hop-driven vision of one of today's most dynamic and prolific new animators/artists, LeSean Thomas. Forward by Daytime Emmy Award Winning Producer/Art Director Jeff Matsuda ( "The Batman", and "Jackie Chan Adventures")."
You can find out more about LeSean Thomas and his artwork at his official website.
I just started reading Good To Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...and Others Don't by Jim Collins author of Built To Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.
I can tell I'm going to love this book because the introduction is quite strong and the project is based on research by a large team over an extended period of time. The team involved 20 people and Collins estimates that they put in "something on the order of 15,000 hours of work to the project."
But I'm mentioning it now because a quote in the introduction struck me as particularly relevant to my plans to go comment free at ProHipHop.
Collins lists a series of discoveries that they found surprising when studying companies that dramatically outperformed their peers over 15 year periods.
From p. 11 of Good To Great:
"The good-to-great companies did not focus principally on what to do to become great; they focused equally on what not to do and what to stop doing."
And that's a lot harder than it sounds!
Tupac Remembered: Bearing Witness to a Life and Legacy
I've got some conflicting release date info but it looks like the book Tupac Remembered: Bearing Witness to a Life and Legacy was out earlier this month.
More info at Thug Life Army on the authors and content.
Marcus Reeves - Somebody Scream!
Marcus Reeves' Somebody Scream!: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power is due March 18th from Faber & Faber.
Review:
Rap music analysis unusually honest
Via The Rap Up.
C-Murder - Death Around the Corner
C-Murder kicks off the Tru Conversations Hour with a series of conference calls regarding his novel, Death Around the Corner, recently released in paperback.
Cyrus A. Webb Interviews C-Murder
Tru Conversations Hour is a project of Conversations Book Club [via AllHipHop] which has worked with C-Murder in the past. The above video in which Conversations Book Club President Cyrus A. Webb interviews C-Murder was taped in October in Jackson, MS.
Official Website:
Death Around the Corner
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