THE BIG PAYBACK: THE HISTORY OF THE BUSINESS OF HIP-HOP

Book ID/图书代码： 06120008B20084

English Summary/英文概要： The "epic story" (Jeff Chang, author of Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop) of hip-hop’s rise from street culture to global industry-and of the people who worked to make it happen.

The Big Payback takes us from the first $15 made by a "rapping DJ" in 1970s New York to the recent multi-million-dollar sales of the Phat Farm and Roc-a-Wear clothing companies in 2004 and 2007. On this four decade-long journey from the studios where the first rap records were made to the boardrooms where the big deals were done, The Big Payback tallies the list of who lost and who won. Read the secret histories of the early long-shot successes of Sugar Hill Records and Grandmaster Flash, Run DMC’s crossover breakthrough on MTV, the marketing of gangsta rap, and the rise of artist/ entrepreneurs like Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs.

300 industry veterans-well-known giants like Rick Rubin and Russell Simmons, the founders of Def Jam; and key insiders like Gerald Levin, the embattled former TimeWarner chief-gave their stories to renowned hip-hop journalist Dan Charnas, who provides a compelling, never-before seen, myth-debunking view into the victories, defeats, corporate clashes and street battles along the 40-year road to hip-hop’s dominance.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 真实版“嘻哈帝国”

嘻哈乐“史记”

Jay-Z,Beastie Boys, The Notorious B.I.G., Puff Daddy等嘻哈巨星的崛起

嘻哈产业鲜为人知的幕后故事、恩怨纠葛……

——嘻哈乐界资深人士丹查纳斯备受赞誉的重磅之作

普利策级报道——SPIN

挖掘音乐产业尘封往事的经典之作，跌宕起伏的通俗史书 ——《滚石》杂志

一种来自南布朗克斯和哈勒姆的街头音乐，如何在四十年间发展成为一个价值数十亿美元的全球性产业？

这不是偶然。

本书记录了嘻哈产业变化无常的历史，记录了其中重要的参与者，如饥似渴的街头贩子、富有创新精神的企业家、具有远见卓识的经纪人，以及精明的公司经理等，他们的商业头脑将一种属于边缘的、城市亚文化的音乐，打造成为一种独特的主流流行文化现象。

从早期“糖山”唱片公司和“大师闪电侠及狂怒五人”乐队出人意料的成功，到“奔跑-DMC”在MTV 频道取得的主流突破，再到匪帮说唱乐的大行其道，以及Jay-Z和肖恩· 库姆斯等巨星的崛起，本书极为详尽地记述了一个原始、真实的故事，这个故事里有鼓舞也有背叛，讲述了嘻哈乐唱片是如何制作及营销，交易是如何达成，以及在这史诗般的奋斗中谁输谁赢。

Awards/获奖情况："Pulitzer-level reporting."---Spin

"A classic of music business dirt-digging as well as a kind of pulp epic."---Rolling Stone (4-star review)

"As gripping and dense as a prime Jay-Z rhyme...Charnas has done a real service to pop history."---New York Daily News

"Essential...The Big Payback focuses not on the beefs you know but on the back-room battles you don’t."---Details

"[An] exhaustive, engrossing history of the genre"---Entertainment Weekly

"In a year that has seen plenty of hip-hop books, The Big Payback stands out as a must-read for any fan - or detractor - of the genre."---Forbes

"The riveting dialogue culled from more than 300 interviews makes it seem as if Charnas was in the room for every deal that ever went down in hip-hop, and sometimes he was."---Austin Chronicle

"Dan Charnas captures an epic story full of joy and pain, triumph and failure, grace and greed with the skills of a journalist, the wisdom of an insider, and the passion of a microphone fiend. Call The Big Payback a hip-hop version of David Halberstam’s The Reckoning."---Jeff Chang, author, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

"With an insider’s connections and an outsider’s perspective, Dan Charnas has written the otherwise untold story of the business of hip-hop. His cast of characters -- producers, agents, label executives, talent scouts -- is every bit as compelling and dramatic as the musicians themselves. In the tradition of such great music journalists as Fred Goodman and Frederic Dannen, Charnas takes us way behind the scenes. It’s an unforgettable odyssey."---Samuel G. Freedman, New York Times columnist and author of Upon This Rock, Who She Was, and Jew vs. Jew

"The Big Payback is a stunning achievement. Not only does it manage to pack in countless unprecedented anecdotes about hip-hop that you can’t find anywhere else, the read is effortlessly smooth. First there was David Toop’s Rap Attack, Ego-Trip’s Book of Rap Lists, then Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop, and now this book, the one ring that rules them all."---Cheo H. Coker, co-screenwriter of Notorious and author of Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G.

"How did hip hop’s shoot-from-the-lip outlaws and go-for-broke gamblers become the entertainment industry’s new landed gentry? Dan Charnas brings a fan’s devotion, an industry insider’s savvy, and a reporter’s unblinking eye to chronicling a cultural revolution that is as contradictory and complex as the country that produced it. Payback is a bitch."---Fred Goodman, author of Fortune’s Fool and The Mansion on the Hill

the book is being turned into a television movie (to be shown in Fall 2015), and ideally, will then become a series for VH1 (part of MTV). http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/vh1-orders-backdoor-pilot-hip-761471

MTV台已购买此书的影视版权，将于今年秋季开播电视剧。this title was optioned by MTV Films, used as the basis for the film THE BREAKS (which got over 10 million viewers in its first week), and that THE BREAKS will be a TV show on MTV starting in the fall.

About the Author/作者介绍： 丹·查纳斯（Dan Charnas）是嘻哈乐界资深作家。他在职业生涯中，曾担任过唱片公司星探、唱片推广，亦为多家媒体撰稿，是帮助推动了嘻哈乐媒体报道的重要作者之一。

DAN CHARNAS scouted talent and promoted records for the seminal rap label, Profile, and was Vice President of A&R for Rick Rubin’s Def American Recordings. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, and the Village Voice. Charnas holds a master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and was awarded a Pulitzer Prize Fellowship. This is his first book.

Format:照片

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