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Ro, Ronin

 
9780385491341: Have Gun Will Travel: The Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records
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ISBN 10: 0385491344 ISBN 13: 9780385491341
Editorial: Doubleday Canada, 1998

Sinopsis

An insider's account of the biggest label in rap music exposes its links to a Los Angeles gang and to New York's Genovese crime family and examines the murders of rap stars Tupak Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G.

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Acerca del autor

Ronin Ro is a journalist as well as the author of <i>Gangsta: Merchandising the Rhymes of Violence.</i>  A former rapper, he has written for numerous publications, including <i>The Source, Spy, SPIN, Rolling Stone, Playboy,</i> and <i>Vibe.</i>  He lives with his wife and daughter in upstate New York, where he is currently at work on a novel.

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cords is one of the most successful music labels of all time. From its inception in 1992, it exploded on the rap music scene with sales climbing to the $125 million mark in just four years. Even more noticeable than the label's financial success is the effect it had on American youth culture, making gangsta rap more popular with suburban white youth and MTV viewers than traditional rock groups. But under the guidance of six-foot-four-inch, 300-pound CEO Marion "Suge" Knight, Death Row also became the most controversial record label in history--a place where violence, gang feuds, threats, intimidation, and brushes with death were business as usual.<br><br><i>Have Gun Will Travel</i> details the spectacular rise and violent fall of a music label that had at its heart a ferocious criminal enterprise cloaked behind corporate facades that gave it a guise of legitimacy. With inside access no other writer can claim, Ronin Ro, the country's pre

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Editorial
Doubleday Canada
Año de publicación
1998
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0385491344
ISBN 13 
9780385491341
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
374
Contacto del fabricante
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