ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HIP HOP LITERATURE This page intentionally left blank ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HIP HOP LITERATURE Edited by TARSHIA L. STANLEY GREENWOOD PRESS Westport, Connecticut • London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Encyclopedia of hip hop literature / edited by Tarshia L. Stanley. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–0–313–34389–6 (alk. paper) 1. American literature—African American authors—Encyclopedias. 2. African Americans in lit- erature—Encyclopedias. 3. African Americans—Intellectual life—Encyclopedias. 4. Inner cities in literature. 5. Literature—Black authors—Encyclopedias. I. Stanley, Tarshia L. PS153.N5E53 2009 810.9'896073003—dc22 2008033532 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2009 by Tarshia L. Stanley All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2008033532 ISBN: 978–0–313–34389–6 First published in 2009 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. www.greenwood.com Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48-1984). 10987654321 CONTENTS List of Entries vii Guide to Related Topics xiii Preface xvii THE ENCYCLOPEDIA 1 Selected Bibliography 269 About the Editor and Contributors 271 Index 285 This page intentionally left blank LIST OF ENTRIESLIST OF ENTRIES Addicted: The Novel (2001) Black Poetry RaShell R. Smith-Spears Sharan Strange Adolescent Literature or Hip Hop Black Popular Culture Primers Lauren Chambers Carey Applegate Black Sexual Politics: African Afeni Shakur: Evolution of a Americans, Gender, and the New Revolutionary (2005) Racism (2005) Bridget A. Arnwine Courtney Young And It Don’t Stop!: The Best American Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy Hip Hop Journalism of the Last 25 (1995) Years (2004) Tarshia L. Stanley Wandra C. Hunley Blackgirl Magazine Angry Blonde: The Official Book (2000) Tikenya S. Foster-Singletary Georgia M. Roberts Blaxploitation Films Baby Boy (Columbia Pictures, USA, Mikel Koven 2001) Blogs Tarshia L. Stanley Paul Farber Baisden, Michael (1963–) Boyz N The Hood (Columbia Pictures, Timothy Askew USA, 1991) Banks, L. A. (1960–) Aaron Winter Marlene D. Allen Braxton, Charlie (1961–) Beat Street (Orion Pictures, USA, 1984) Rochelle Spencer Trudy Mercadal-Sabbaugh Breakin’ (Canon Pictures, USA, Beatty, Paul (1962–) 1984) Alexander Hartwiger Laura H. Marks Belly (Big Dog Films, USA, 1998) Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Sexual Tarshia L. Stanley Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Between God and Gangsta Rap: Bearing Nationalism (2005) Witness to Black Culture (1996) Karley K. Adney W.C. Baxter III Brown, Claude (1937–2002) Black Book Clubs Mary Loving Blanchard Sandra L. West Brown, Cupcake (1964?–) Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Michelle S. Hite Culture in Contemporary America Brown, Parry “Ebony Satin” A. (1994) (1952–) Trudy Mercadal-Sabbaugh Piper G. Huguley-Riggins viii LIST OF ENTRIES Brown Sugar (20th Century Fox, USA, Confessions of a Video Vixen (2005) 2002) Yolanda Williams Page Thomas Haliburton Crystelle Mourning: A Novel (2006) Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex, RaShell R. Smith-Spears and Hair (1997) Daughter: A Novel (2003) Terry Bozeman Tarshia L. Stanley Burn: A Novel (2006) Davis, Anthony C. Marcella Runell Hall Piper G. Huguley-Riggins Business of Hip Hop Publishing Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Ava Williams Look at Black Masculinity in the Bynoe, Yvonne (196?–) Hip-Hop Generation (2006) Kimberly R. Oden Terry Bozeman Calderón, Jennifer “JLove” (1971–) Detective/Mystery Fiction Sofía Quintero David Morris Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of Dickey, Eric Jerome (1961–) the Hip-Hop Generation (2005) Anita K. McDaniel Timothy S. Jones Diggs, Anita Doreen (1960–) Chang, Jeff (1967–) Ava Williams Timothy S. Jones Dopefiend: Story of a Black Junkie Check It While I Wreck It: Black (1971) Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and Mary Loving Blanchard the Public Sphere (2004) The Dying Ground: A Hip-Hop Noir Tashia L. Stanley Novel (2001) Cheekes, Shonda (1970–) Christin M. Taylor Piper G. Huguley-Riggins Dyson, Michael Eric (1958–) The Cheetah Girls (1999) Antonio Maurice Daniels Brenna Clarke Gray E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX Chideya, Farai (1969–) (2002) RaShell R. Smith-Spears Delicia Daniels 8 Mile (Universal Pictures, USA, 2002) Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour) Aaron Winter (1960–) Delicia Dena Daniels Explicit Content (2004) Marcella Runell Hall Cinema Shane Gilley Fabulosity: What It Is & How To Get It (2006) Cobb, William Jelani (1969–) Tyeese Gaines Reid Rochelle Spencer Fanzines The Coldest Winter Ever (1999) Jennifer Ashley Chaunda A. McDavis Flake, Sharon G. (1955–) College Courses in Hip Hop Literature Carey Applegate (1998–2007) Flyy Girl Ellesia A. Blaque Piper G. Huguley-Riggins Collins, Patricia Hill (1948–) From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Zandra L. Jordan Anthology of Poetry across the Comics Americas, 1900–2002 (2003) Anita K. McDaniel Yi-Hsuan Tso LIST OF ENTRIES ix George, Nelson (1957–) The Hood Comes First: Race, Space, Akil Houston and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop (2002) Giovanni, Nikki (1943–) Brian Su-Jen Chung Candy A. Henry hooks, bell (Gloria Watkins) (1952–) Girls From Da Hood Angelle Scott Eve Dunbar Hunt, La Jill (1972–) Goines, Donald (1937–1974) Piper G. Huguley-Riggins Kinohi Nishikawa Hustle and Flow (Paramount Classics, Graphic Novels USA, 2005) David B. Olsen Nicholas Gaffney Harris, E. Lynn (1957–) I Make My Own Rules (1998) T. J. Geiger Chaunda A. McDavis The Haunting of Hip Hop (2002) Iceberg Slim (1918–1992) Nicole Staub Timothy Askew Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes Iceberg Slim: The Life as Art (2003) (Independent Lens, USA, 2006) Kinohi Nishikawa Tarshia L. Stanley Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Hip Hop America (1998) Theory (1990) Gil Cook Christin M. Taylor Hip Hop; Hiphop; Hip-hop; hip hop; Jackson, Curtis James (50 Cent) hip-hop Culture (1975–) Akil Houston Piper G. Huguley-Riggins The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook: Jones, Lisa (1961–) Volume I E. Angelica Whitmal Carey Applegate Jones, Sarah (1973–) The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks Vanessa Floyd and the Crisis in African American Juice (Paramount Pictures, USA, 1992) Culture (2002) Tarshia L. Stanley Peter Caster Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. Hip-Hop, Inc.: Success Strategies of (Miramax, USA, 1993) the Rap Moguls (2006) Peter Caster Paul Falzone Kelley, Robin D. G. (1962–) Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Christina L. Davis Culture, and the Struggle for the Kennedy, Erica (1970–) Soul of a Movement (2006) Kimberly R. Oden Tarshia L. Stanley Kensington Publishing Corporation Hoch, Danny (1970–) Tarshia L. Stanley Robert Torre Know What I Mean?: Reflections Holmes, Shannon on Hip Hop (2007) Piper G. Huguley-Riggins David B. Olsen Krush Groove (Warner Bros, Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip USA, 1985) Hop Feminism Anthology (2007) Tarshia L. Stanley Tarshia L. Stanley Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Honey Magazine Woman (1999) Nneka Nnolim Tarshia L. Stanley x LIST OF ENTRIES The Last Poets Morgan, Joan (1965–) Samuel Frederick Tomika DePriest Let That Be the Reason (2001) Myers, Walter Dean (1937–) Ava Williams Ladrica Menson-Furr Letters to a Young Brother: The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim: MANifest Your Destiny (2006) Robert Beck’s Real Story (1975) Chaunda A. McDavis Rachel Robinson Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, and Neal, Mark Anthony (1965–) God (2002) Gregory Donald Brophy Beatrice Nibigira Kelley New Jack City (Jacmac Films, Life Is Not a Fairy Tale (2005) USA, 1991) Tolu O. Idowu Tarshia L. Stanley Literary Fiction No Disrespect (1994) Tyechia L. Thompson Sheri McCord Love Don’t Live Here No More (2006) Old School Books Publishing Beatrice Nibigira Kelley Kinohi Nishikawa Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Other Men’s Wives (2005) Donald Goines (2004) Beatrice Nibigira Kelley Kinohi Nishikawa Perry, Imani (1972–) Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Judy L. Isaksen Black Man in America (1994) Picture Me Rollin’ (2005) Gil Cook Marcella Runell Hall Manchild in the Promised Land (1965) Pimp: The Story of My Life (1969) Timothy Askew Carol Davis Mayo, Kierna (1970–) Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold Rochelle Spencer on Young Black Women (2007) McDonald, Janet (1953–2007) Tarshia L. Stanley Catherine Ross-Stroud Poetic Justice (Columbia Pictures, Medina, Tony (1966–) USA, 1993) Adrienne Carthon Tarshia L. Stanley Menace II Society (New Line Cinema, Postmodernism USA, 1993) Antonio Maurice Daniels Peter Caster Powell, Kevin (1966–) Miranda, Elisha (1969–) Seretha D. Williams Sofía Quintero The Prisoner’s Wife (1999) The Moments, the Minutes, the Courtney D. Marshall Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott Push: A Novel (1996) (2005) Laura H. Marks Wandra C. Hunley Queen of the Scene (2006) Moore, Jessica Care (1971–) Rosa Soto Adrienne Carthon Queen Pen Moore, Natalie Y. Almaz Tsz-ying Leung Piper G. Huguley-Riggins Quintero, Sofía (1969–) Moore, Stephanie Perry (1969–) Marcella Runell Hall Piper G. Huguley-Riggins LIST OF ENTRIES xi Raimist, Rachel (197?–) Spoken Word Movement Tarshia L. Stanley Beth Lagarou Reed, Ishmael (1938–) Steffans, Karrine (1978–) Sathyaraj Venkatesan Yolanda Williams Page Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Strebor Books Production of Black Cinema (1999) Danielle R. Tyler Tarshia L. Stanley Style Wars (PBS, USA, 1983) “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” Travis Vogan James Arthur Gentry Taylor, Carol Richardson, Elaine B. (1960–) Piper G. Huguley-Riggins Terry Bozeman Tears for Water: Songbook of Poems Rivera, Raquel Z. (197?–) and Lyrics (2004) Nneka Nnolim Rebecca Housel Rize (Lions Gate, USA, 2005) Teen Fiction Travis Vogan Catherine Ross-Stroud Roby, Kimberla Lawson (1965–) That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Piper G. Huguley-Riggins Reader (2004) Rose, Tricia (1963–) Tarshia L. Stanley Christin M. Taylor Thomas, Brenda L. (1957–) Sanchez, Sonia (1934–) Nneka Nnolim Carol Davis Triple Crown Publications Sapphire (1950–) Sandra L.