Hip Hop Family Tree Vol.1 - 1970s-1981

Knowledge of the early days of hip-hop became the stuff of myth, so that the best way to arrange this exciting epic true story than the other great American mythological environments - comic? From exciting young talents and a self-proclaimed hip-hop nerd Ed Piskor, a hacker known for his graphic novel Wizzywig, comes this explosive entertainment, encyclopedic history of the formative years of a musical genre that changed the global culture.

Initially, in part to an extremely popular site Boing Boing, Hip Hop Family Tree is now collected in one volume are presented and skillfully packaged in the style imitating Marvel comics of the same era. Rampant still controlled cartoons Piskor takes you from parks and REC Room South Bronx in nightclubs, recording studios, radio stations, where the scene began to grow, capturing the flavor of the end of the 1970s, New York panels genuine break with the obsessive detail. With painstaking, energetic and engaged in Ken Burns meets Stan Lee's approach, fights and rivalries, technical innovations, triumphs and failures are all carefully researched and lovingly depicted.

Piskor captures vivid personality and magnetic performances of the old school pioneers and early stars like DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Funky 4 + 1, Afrika Bambaataa, Kurtis Blow, The Sugarhill Gang, and three children, who would later become a Run-DMC plus charismatic players behind the scenes, like Russell Simmons, Sylvia Robinson and then Punker Rick Rubin. Piskor traces the rise of graffiti master Fab 5 Freddy'S in the art world, and Debbie Harry, Keith Haring The Clash, and other luminaries to make cameos as music and culture began to penetrate the heart of Manhattan and mainstream as a whole.

As is well known hip-hop documentary Style Wars, and scratch, Hip Hop Family Tree is an interesting and important cultural chronicle and a must for hip hop fans, pop culture addicts, and those who want to know how it went down back in the day.