Word Is Bond: The Untold Story of Hip-Hop Journalism

A treasure trove from the golden era of hip-hop journalism, featuring groundbreaking articles, oral histories, and never-before-seen photos and artifacts—expertly curated by a renowned archivist

In the early days of the hip-hop industry—long before hip hop became American pop music, before the sanitized protocols of the larger music industry took over with regimented press days and ever-present publicists—mainstream media essentially ignored the culture while hip hop journalists were in the ...