Two babies. Two fathers. One white. One black. “She knew that one of the babies wasn’t Mr. Meyer’s child, and it was really difficult for her to expose it. She knew that her husband was a nice man, sent from above, but this process had started nine months ago when she’d met an African named Daniel in a course she’d joined to improve her IT knowledge. She remembered that Daniel wasn’t a shy man; he was always around the ladies, and he had that charming, courageous look. All the ladies in the course really liked him because of his brilliance, coupled with his handsomeness. She remembered when he’d approached her and asked her to have a drink with him.” Rapstar, the story of a woman who birthed twins after being with two men, one white and the other black. One of the baby boys was an albino, the other was white. Her husband hated the albino child, because he knew his wife cheated. The albino grew up to become a rap star. He fell in love with the girlfriend of his friend, who gave him hell and punished him. Later he fought back …

When rapper Da Nigga is sent back in time, he finds himself a slave forced to live the life of his ancestors. A rapper in the present day, Da Nigga must confront the reality of the African-American experience as slavery challenges everything he holds dear: from his fellow rappers and their lyrics, to the executives and their motives. Antebellum is the hard-hitting, gritty story of Da Nigga and his firsthand experiences. An illuminating examination of African-American history, Antebellum is a powerful addition to today's discourse on race and culture.

So you want to be a rapstar is a in depth story about a up and coming rapper that gets advice on how to make it big in music.

New Rap star, Quan is the man to see in these streets of Miami. He’s currently new in the industry and finding out that everybody that’s surrounding him, isn’t really down for him. With fame, nice cars, big houses, and money, comes thirsty females popping out from every corner. Along with Quan on his journey is the lovely and beautiful mother to his beautiful daughter China and her name is Charlie. These two have history but will their history be enough to make Quan act right or will the fame and fortune cause him to constantly cheat on her and constantly embarrass her in the tabloids? Along with Quan, is his best friend Jaquavious, who is also his manger and also sleeping with Quan’s 20 year old sister Monae behinds Jaquan’s back. Jaquavious knows the code and he knows that Quan’s sister is off limits to him. Will Quan find out and if he does, will this cost Jaquavious his life? Find out what happens when you take two ghetto boys from out of the grimy streets of Miami and give them a little fame and fortune. Filled with that 305 love, friendships, and bonds that might possibly be broken.

Forty-nine-year-old Dade Eduardo Lord is the founder and president of Precision Records, a heavyweight record company based in New York City. Lord loves money, and, in fact, he worships it. At the age of twenty-three, he fathered a child, Crystal Hill, whom he abandoned at birth. At sixteen, Crystal became MC Ms. Lady, a Brooklyn-based rapper. By age nineteen, shes known as the queen of hip-hop with hit records produced by Konscious Flow Productions, a rival hip-hop company of Precision Records. Not only is Crystal a brilliant rapper, but a scholar who attended Harvard University for one year, landing on its Deans list. She envisions being more than just a rapper; she aspires to be a record executive. Crystal meets with Lord and earns an executive internship position at Precision Records. But she harbors a deeper and more personal reason for wanting to intern with her fathers company. Is it to seek Lords love and approval or to destroy him because of his past deeds and abandonment?

In the 1990s, American civil society got upended and reordered as many social, cultural, political, and economic institutions were changed forever. Pretty People examines a wide range of Hollywood icons who reflect how stardom in that decade was transformed as the nation itself was signaling significant changes to familiar ideas about gender, race, ethnicity, age, class, sexuality, and nationality. Such actors as Denzel Washington, Andy Garcia, Halle Berry, Angela Bassett, Will Smith, Jennifer Lopez, and Antonio Banderas became bona fide movie stars who carried major films to amazing box-office success. Five of the decade’s top ten films were opened by three women—Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster, and Whoopi Goldberg. “Chick flick” entered the lexicon as Leonardo DiCaprio became the “King of the World,” ushering in the cult of the mega celebrity. Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise defined screen masculinity as stark contrasts between “the regular guy” and “the intense guy” while the roles of Michael Douglas exemplified the endangered “Average White Male.” A fascinating composite portrait of 1990s Hollywood and its stars, this collection marks the changes to stardom and society at century’s end.

What do millennial rappers in the United States say in their music? This timely and compelling book answers this question by decoding the lyrics of over 700 songs from contemporary rap artists. Using innovative research techniques, Matthew Oware reveals how emcees perpetuate and challenge gendered and racialized constructions of masculinity, femininity, and sexuality. Male and female artists litter their rhymes with misogynistic and violent imagery. However, men also express a full range of emotions, from arrogance to vulnerability, conveying a more complex manhood than previously acknowledged. Women emphatically state their desires while embracing a more feminist approach. Even LGBTQ artists stake their claim and express their sexuality without fear. Finally, in the age of Black Lives Matter and the presidency of Donald J. Trump, emcees forcefully politicize their music. Although complicated and contradictory in many ways, rap remains a powerful medium for social commentary.

Hip-hop culture has grown from its humble beginnings in the South Bronx section of New York City into a significant and influential cultural movement. This volume examines the rich history and promising future of this musical genre. Created in the mid-1970s by poor Bronx residents with few resources, hip-hop has become a billion-dollar industry whose reach now stretches around the world. Hip-hop has influenced the way people make music, the way they dance, and the way they wear their clothes. It has also shaped people's political views and turned many people into entrepreneurs.