Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told Through Hip-Hop by Lenny Duncan (Hardcover)

Nonfiction - Music - Rap & Hip-Hop - Social Science - Popular Culture RELEASE DATE: 1/9/2024 (WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER'S WAREHOUSE) Treating hip-hop like sacred scripture, lenny duncan, author of Dear Church and United States of Grace traces hip-hop's history, artists, lyrics, and cultural context to elucidate the story of Black liberation in this country. Beautiful illustrations illuminate the text on each page. If you want to understand the Black experience in the US, you have to understand hip-hop. James Baldwin, in his famous talk "The Struggle for the Artist's Integrity," suggests that "the poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us." And to understand the truth about the history of Black peoples in America, argues lenny duncan, we must look to the modern Black poet: the hip-hop artist. In Psalms of My People, artist, scholar, and activist lenny duncan treats the work of hip-hop artists from the last several decades-