Too many incredible milestones in this issue to name! LL Cool J makes a record with Rick Rubin and Def Jam. KRS One gets arrested and meets his future DJ. The Fat Boys and Run DMC headline the first national Hip Hop tours. Just to name a few.

Book 4 of the best selling series showcases: The rise of Def Jam records! The birth of Dr. Dre’s record career leading to Straight Outta Compton! Introducing new branches on the tree such as Will Smith, Salt N Pepa, Rakim, and Biz Markie. Hollywood also takes notice and releases loads of films like Breakin’, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo,

The best-seller is action packed in this issue. Rap battles will never be the same after Kool Moe Dee gets done with Busy Bee Starski in their legendary confrontation. Blondies "Rapture" plays on the first day's broadcast of a new channel called MTV. Grandmaster Flash and other rap groups get seduced by Sugar Hill Records.

The best-seller is action packed in this issue. Rap battles will never be the same after Kool Moe Dee gets done with Busy Bee Starski in their legendary confrontation. Blondies "Rapture" plays on the first day's broadcast of a new channel called MTV. Grandmaster Flash and other rap groups get seduced by Sugar Hill Records.

The best-seller is action packed in this issue. Rap battles will never be the same after Kool Moe Dee gets done with Busy Bee Starski in their legendary confrontation. Blondies "Rapture" plays on the first day's broadcast of a new channel called MTV. Grandmaster Flash and other rap groups get seduced by Sugar Hill Records.

The best-seller is action packed in this issue. Rap battles will never be the same after Kool Moe Dee gets done with Busy Bee Starski in their legendary confrontation. Blondies "Rapture" plays on the first day's broadcast of a new channel called MTV. Grandmaster Flash and other rap groups get seduced by Sugar Hill Records.

The best-seller is action packed in this issue. Rap battles will never be the same after Kool Moe Dee gets done with Busy Bee Starski in their legendary confrontation. Blondies "Rapture" plays on the first day's broadcast of a new channel called MTV. Grandmaster Flash and other rap groups get seduced by Sugar Hill Records.

The best-seller is action packed in this issue. Rap battles will never be the same after Kool Moe Dee gets done with Busy Bee Starski in their legendary confrontation. Blondies "Rapture" plays on the first day's broadcast of a new channel called MTV. Grandmaster Flash and other rap groups get seduced by Sugar Hill Records.

The best-seller is action packed in this issue. Rap battles will never be the same after Kool Moe Dee gets done with Busy Bee Starski in their legendary confrontation. Blondies "Rapture" plays on the first day's broadcast of a new channel called MTV. Grandmaster Flash and other rap groups get seduced by Sugar Hill Records.

Things ramp up in the late 1970s when the first gold-selling hip hop records are released. Details of Kurtis Blow's world tour and Sylvia Robinson seduces Grandmaster Flash to come over to Sugarhill records where he'll go on to create his most memorable work.

Hip Hop jumps from the streets into the record business in this issue documenting the first rap songs on wax by acts like the Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious five and Kurtis Blow. Discover the secrets that took place to make Hip Hop culture the global phenomenon that it grew into.

The book covers the first two years, 1981-1983, when hip-hop made a big shift from the parks and REC rooms in downtown clubs and vinyl records. Artists make moves to separate themselves from paying customers, a magnificently dressed as a young band called Run-DMC does not come to the scene to take things back to the streets. This volume includes

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,

Well-known graphic novel series Ed Piskor continues! Book 3 highlights Run DMC rise to fame and introduces forbidding acts like Whodini, The Fat Boys, Slick Rick, and Doug E Fresh. The Beastie Boys have become a rap artist. Rick Rubin is responsible Russell Simmons to form Def Jam.Izvestny broadcaster pilot dance show Graffiti Rock and documentary

Book 2 covers the early years of 1981-1983, when hip- hop made ​​a great transition from Parks and REC room to downtown clubs and vinyl records. Artists make moves to separate themselves from paying customers by dressing more and more lush, while the young group called RUN-DMC does not come on the scene to take things back to the streets. This