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The essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture - from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces Matter, the New York Times bestselling oral history of The Wire "The Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most insightful." - Shea Serrano, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hip-Hop (And Other Things) The music that would come to be known as hip-hop was born at a party in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. Now, fifty years later, it's the most popular music genre in America. Just as jazz did in the first half of the twentieth century, hip-hop and its groundbreaking DJs and artists - nearly all of them people of color from some of America's most overlooked communities - pushed the boundaries of music to new frontiers, while transfixing the country's youth and reshaping fashion, art, and even language.
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JONATHAN ABRAMS is an award-winning journalist who writes for Bleacher Report. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling Boys Among Men. He was previously a staff writer at Grantland, the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Times and is a graduate of the University of Southern California.Follow Jonathan on Twitter @jpdabramsAuthor photograph by Nicola Borland
