{"product_id":"9781909526891-the-book-of-rhyme-reason","title":"Spirer Peter - The Book Of Rhyme \u0026 Reason - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: In the mid - nineties documentarian Peter Spirer embarked on a three - year odyssey to offer a realistic view of Hip - Hop and the people and culture it encompassed interviewing over 80 artists involved in the art form. Spirer managed to capture a seminal moment as the culture balanced on the cusp of the mainstream. As Ice - T comments in his foreword to the book Rhyme \u0026amp; Reason is one of the few films that was there to document us before Hip - Hop truly exploded. Spirer's goal was to make a film 'for anyone who's at a traffic light and gets intimidated by another car pulling up with a fat sound - system. I wanted to give an understanding of where that was coming from and what it was all about. While filming Spirer took accompanying stills using a medium format Rolleiflex camera. It is these photographs that form THE BOOK OF Rhyme \u0026amp; Reason. The Rollei allowed me to capture some amazing moments: Puffy getting a trim in his office while doing three tasks at once Biggie opening record plaques on his couch Ice - T and Mack 10 hanging with their homies Heavy D at the barber playing pool. There was the Jack The Rapper convention with Death Row making a statement at a Disney World Hotel that ended in chaos. There were magical moments such as Redman and Erick Sermon freestyling on the mic to amazed onlookers at a block party in Newark and watching Wu - Tang Clan chop it up on the block in Staten Island on a cold winter's day before they exploded. This coffee table volume features over 130 of Spirer's photographs from 1994 to 1997. As Hip - Hop commemorates its fiftieth anniversary in 2023, it is particularly fitting that many of these images from this formative period are being seen and published for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Book Of Rhyme \u0026amp; Reason\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Spirer Peter\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Reel Art Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781909526891\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 224 Pages, 300 Illustrations, Unspecified\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 11\/7\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Rap \u0026amp; Hip-Hop","brand":"Spirer Peter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49626344554801,"sku":"IN-G-9781909526891","price":36.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781909526891.jpg?v=1724911399","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781909526891-the-book-of-rhyme-reason","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}