An oral history of hip-hop music offers contributions by the artists who offer an anecdotal account of the creation of some of the genre's most important albums, as well as the people, events, and environment that inspired them, with essays by Ice-T, Run-DMC, Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, The Roots, Digable Planets, and others. Original. 25,000 first printing. Foreword Ahmir ``?uestlove'' Thompson vii Preface ix 2 Live Crew As Nasty as They Wanna Be 3(12) Berstie Boys Check Your Head 15(20) Big Daddy Kane Long Live the Kane 35(9) Biz Markie Goin' Off 44(9) Black Moon Enta Da Stage 53(19) Boogie Down Productions Criminal Minded 72(20) Brand Nubian One for All 92(13) Common (Sense) Resurrection 105(15) Cypress Hill Cypress Hill 120(12) Das EFX Dead Serious 132(11) De La Soul 3 Feet High and Rising 143(16) Digable Planets Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) 159(16) Digital Underground Sex Packets 175(14) EPMD Strictly Business 189(11) Eric B. & Rakim Paid in Full 200(10) Fugees The Score 210(11) Geto Boys We Can't Be Stopped 221(11) Ice-T Power 232(17) Marley Marl In Control Volume 1 249(7) Mc Lyte Lyte as a Rock 256(8) Mobb Deep The Infamous... 264(12) M.O.P. Firing Squad 276(13) ONYX Bacdafucup 289(13) Pete Rock & CL Smooth Mecca and the Soul Brother 302(14) The Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde 316(17) Poor Righteous Teachers Holy Intellect 333(15) Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 348(13) Redman Whut? Thee Album 361(8) The Roots Do You Want More?!!!??! 369(25) Run-DMC Raising Hell 394(11) Schoolly D Saturday Night! The Album 405(11) Slick Rick The Great Adventures of Slick Rick 416(8) Too Short Life Is ... Too Short 424(10) A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory 434(15) Wu-Tang Clan Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) 449(19) X-Clan To the East, Blackwards 468(19) Acknowledgments 487(4) Index 491