Check the Technique

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Published June 12, 2007

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978-0-8129-7775-2
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Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies is a book by music journalist Brian Coleman that covers the making of 36 classic hip hop albums, based on interviews with the artists who created them, also providing a track-by-track breakdown for each album entirely in the words of the artists. It was published by Villard/Random House in 2007. It is an expanded and updated version of the book Rakim Told Me, also by Brian Coleman, and it features a foreword by Questlove of the Roots.

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Some of these albums I knew, some I didn't. It was enjoyable to read about albums I was familiar with. It was also fun to read some of the interviews about albums I didn't know well, because they were funny, or really poignantly showed hip-hop for that time period.

Eventually, though, I gave up on it. If I was more well versed in early hip-hop, I'd probably think the book was amazing. I'd go back to it if I listen to any of the other albums documented.

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