Bomb the Suburbs

by Wimsatt, William Upski

• ISBN13: 9781887128964
• ISBN10: 1887128964
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-22
• Publisher: Soft Skull Press

Summary

Through stories, cartoons, interviews, disses,parodies and original research, Bomb the Suburbs,challenges the suburban mind-set wherever it is,found, in suburbs and corporate headquarters, but,also in cities, housing projects and hip-hop,itself, debating key questions within the urban,black community. Aimed at hip-hop insiders and,outsiders alike to elevate hip-hop, pop culture,and ourselves to a higher standard of art, ethics,intellect, strategy, adventure and honesty, this,humorous, incisive treatise from the author of No,More Prisons. With b/w illustrations throughout.

Table of Contents

Introductions	2	(22)
Subway scholar
Our most abused phrases
Rap music's identity crisis
Why do you want to bomb the suburbs?
They're saying tecs, we're saying technology: An interview with Reginald Jolley
Wiggers	22	(20)
``We use words like `Mackadocious''' [and other progress from the front lines of The White Struggle]
In defense of wiggers
Aren't you in the wrong neighborhood?
Hadn't I just been a special white boy?
Writers	42	(15)
A job opening in Cleveland [I'm not even gonna talk about the train yards]
Message to Mario: Wear your mask
Out over the stairwell
Dear Steven: Hip-hop is not a way of life--This is a warning!
If graffiti was rap
Dear Kozak: The rules of graffiti
Journalists	57	(23)
Confessions of a super-groupie: An interview with Lesley Thomas
Letters to Victor--You Editor!--Dear Dry-Paper
Rappers	80	(22)
Faking the conversation
The Chicago syndrome
How not to be taken advantage of: An interview with Aaron Brown
The renegades of hip-hop--A music with little culture and no politics of its own
The coolest job in the world: An interview with Wendy Day
Chicago	102	(24)
The urban frontier: a guided tour through one of Chicago's best kept secrets
Warp's legacy and my stupid one
Why Chicago is the only place that has all-city hip-hop meetings
Shane, 38, the great American homesteader
They don't take Mastercard and they don't take American Express
The truly illmatic: hip-hop and mental illness
The city that revived breakdancing
Roads & Rails	126	(16)
``You can't hitchhike today'': Kindness and generosity on the American road
They'll knife you in your sleep
Ride from a black woman
Stations on the national subway: A third wave of graffiti sweeps America
Conclusions	142
Bomb the suburbs
Suckers don't last a minute: Good rhyme, bad theory
Hip-hop is supposed to eliminate itself: An interview with Super LP Raven
Minister Farrakhan, meet the Beastie Boys [okay, both of you can go now]
In search of hip-hop's moral center
Why this book is so dope