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Title: Young Black Rich and Famous: The Rise of the Nba, the Hip Hop Invasion, and the Transformation of American Culture by Todd Boyd ISBN: 0-7679-1277-2 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 21 October, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Pretty Good Book
Comment: I dig whenever Todd Boyd is on a Project because He has a way with words.this Book puts alot into Perspective&Bridges many a gap.I was hoping for more Pulling together of Hip-Hop with the NBA a bit more but overall this Book makes for a Pretty Good read.
Rating: 3
Summary: Benefit Of The Doubt for the Hip Hop Professor
Comment: In the book, Young Black Rich and Famous, Dr. Todd Boyd talks about the struggles young African American men and women have in the United States. He uses basketball and the hip-hop nation as a giant metaphor, illustrating their reach for the American Dream. In his attempt to make his analogy, I feel he barely backs up his contention about hip-hop. Boyd does color his content with quotes from rapiers such as Notorious B.I.G. and Jay-Z, but he doesn't go in depth with his ideal synopses. He does talk broadly about basketball though. I fill he over-powers his context with sports facts instead of getting strait to the point. I think he uses a lot of "fluff" to try and fill in his points with basketball. He talks in his book about "Keeping It Real", but my opinion is that he is far from that. I will give him the benefit of the doubt though. Along with the abysmal content, there were many times in the book that he has put some hefty passages that were mind-boggling. In conclusion, this book did change my perspective on things. And that's keeping it real.
Rating: 5
Summary: Boyd has done it again
Comment: Young Black Rich and Famous by Todd Boyd is an excellent book that chronicles the rise and fall and again rise of young rich Black men in the NBA during the 60s and 70s to the young rich Black men of the present day NBA. Boyd in addition to following the life and times of NBA players in the past 30 years or more makes the connection with the rise of Hip Hop. While the NBA was becoming a Black dominated sport and a rising Black cultural force another Black cultural monster was on the rise as well and that was Hip Hop.
Boyd clearly looks at how the NBA with Hip Hop following right behind puts young Black men at the core of cultural change in the face of racial hostility. If anybody has been lucky enough to read any of Boyd's books, essays or articles, they know that Boyd, whether it be music, film, or sports, consistently puts Black men historically at the center of cultural change in the face of racial contempt.
Boyd in all of his readings keeps it real, precise and consistent when it comes to the Black man and his significance to American culture and society at large. Boyd in Young Black Rich and Famous is witty, clever and at times funny in his breakdown of the NBA and Hip Hop and their relevance to popular culture. This book is a must have for everyone.
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