Kevin Smokler reviewed The big payback by Dan Charnas
Review of 'The big payback' on 'Storygraph'
5 stars
Second time reading it, first time really appreciating what a modern classic it is.
This 639 page history of the business of hip hop contains not a single wasted sentence and a cast of characters so beautiful and glorious. only Pultizer level reporting could tell their story this cleanly and still be an absolute pleasure to read.
Read it if you love hip-hop, obviously. But read it if you just love a great American history told in the body of great novel, like something E.L Doctorow would throw down. This one's real though. And we have been living in the story told here and the New World it created since.
Second time reading it, first time really appreciating what a modern classic it is.
This 639 page history of the business of hip hop contains not a single wasted sentence and a cast of characters so beautiful and glorious. only Pultizer level reporting could tell their story this cleanly and still be an absolute pleasure to read.
Read it if you love hip-hop, obviously. But read it if you just love a great American history told in the body of great novel, like something E.L Doctorow would throw down. This one's real though. And we have been living in the story told here and the New World it created since.
This 639 page history of the business of hip hop contains not a single wasted sentence and a cast of characters so beautiful and glorious. only Pultizer level reporting could tell their story this cleanly and still be an absolute pleasure to read.
Read it if you love hip-hop, obviously. But read it if you just love a great American history told in the body of great novel, like something E.L Doctorow would throw down. This one's real though. And we have been living in the story told here and the New World it created since.