Brian Coleman - Check The Technique available now.

[Controller_7]

I did a search and there was an earlier post about this coming out soon, but the post went off an IP/fake name tangent, so I am starting this new one. http://www.waxfacts.com/index.htmBrian Coleman is a super nice guy. When he wrote the first book "Rakim Told Me" I went to his website and ended up ordering the book directly from him. He ended up being super nice and down to earth. I am down to support anyone who is doing their thing and is extremely nice about it too. Besides being a nice guy, the book is an excellent read. You get to hear the actual artists talk about the albums they recorded and tell funny stories and interesting anecdotes. Some examples include:-KRS One talking about sampling the drums straight off of Eric B Is President for The Bridge is Over-Schooly D talking about the reverb on PSK and how they did it in a classical studio and scared the engineer.-Slick Rick talking about all the songs that he hated and thought were filler on Great Adventures.-Biz talking about Goin' Off and not understanding why Marley Marl changed the singles on the LP.-De La discussing many of the songs off 3 Feet High and Rising.there's lots of good stuff. The new book adds on to what was in Rakim Told Me and includes a whole bunch of new albums I'm looking forward to reading about. Sorry for what seems like an ad, but he's been a really cool guy to me and I appreciate his work and want to share this so people will support the book.

 

[Phill_Most]

omg its great, as was "Rakim Told Me". this one is the same as that one + xtra

 

[FunkyFlatulent]

Do they sell these in normal bookstores? or is it hip hop places and online only?

 

[Controller_7]

I imagine that it will make it's way to some major book stores, but probably in small numbers. you may have to ask for it too. I don't know for sure. It's available at Amazon, so I imagine it will also make it to some of the other retail chains.

Chapter list:



2 Live Crew - As Nasty As They Wanna Be
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane
Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
Brand Nubian - One for All
Common - Resurrection
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill
Das Efx - Dead Serious
De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising
Digable Planets - Reachin??? (A New Refutation of Time and Space)
Digital Underground - Sex Packets
EPMD - Strictly Business
Eric B & Rakim - Paid In Full
Fugees - The Score
Geto Boys - We Can???t Be Stopped
Ice-T - Power
Biz Markie - Goin??? Off
Marley Marl & Various - In Control Volume 1
MC Lyte - Lyte As A Rock
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
M.O.P. - Firing Squad
Onyx - Bacdafucup
Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
Poor Righteous Teachers - Holy Intellect
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Redman - Whut? Thee Album
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - Mecca & The Soul Brother
The Roots - Do You Want More??!!??
Run-DMC - Raising Hell
Schoolly D - Saturday Night: The Album
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Too $hort - Life Is??? Too $hort
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers
X-Clan - To the East, Blackwards

 

[Phill_Most]

Do they sell these in normal bookstores? or is it hip hop places and online only?

you're in philly, right? borders should have it, if i remember correctly

 

[FunkyFlatulent]

Do they sell these in normal bookstores? or is it hip hop places and online only?

you're in philly, right? borders should have it, if i remember correctly
Just searched the borders site, they don't seem to carry either book.

I guess I'll just order it online.

p.s. If i was gonna write a book these are the books I'd write. So he stole my books. Now I can't write a book.

 

[Phill_Most]

Do they sell these in normal bookstores? or is it hip hop places and online only?

you're in philly, right? borders should have it, if i remember correctly
Just searched the borders site, they don't seem to carry either book.

I guess I'll just order it online.
the borders at broad & chestnut should have it. saw it there about a week ago

 

[mannybolone]

Yeah, Brian's book is on a major press (unlike the self-distributed "Rakim Told Me") so most bookstores probably will end up carrying this, especially the mega-stores.

I'm still bugging out that Coleman was one of the OG breaks LP dudes. I'd mention the series but

 

[Controller_7]

I'm still bugging out that Coleman was one of the OG breaks LP dudes. I'd mention the series but

Interesting. I did not know that.

 

[SouthCrackalack]

Damn, I been sleepin on this cat. Thanks for the heads up, this shit sounds too good.

 

[KidK]

Rakim Told Me

If you're a fan of vague sensationalistic generalisations that add no new insight to topics that have been beaten into the ground, then this is your kind of book. A lot of chapters in Odub's book were able to much more seriously and intelligently critique and analyze many of the same records in about half the words.

 

[PABLO]

Damn, even O-Dub's rockin' alias' up in here now!?

 

[mannybolone]

Rakim Told Me

If you're a fan of vague sensationalistic generalisations that add no new insight to topics that have been beaten into the ground, then this is your kind of book. A lot of chapters in Odub's book were able to much more seriously and intelligently critique and analyze many of the same records in about half the words.

Dude, they're two totally different books. I love Brian's books - they're just straight up, from-the-horse's-mouth accounts on what it was like to put together all the albums that get discussed. It's not meant to be critically frame those albums (that'd be my book) - they're meant to give fans a behind-the-scenes look at what, say, Evil Dee and Walt were tossing around in order to produce "Enta Da Stage."

Seriously, for any hip-hop fan for whom these albums meant anything, you'll like a lot of these stories. Period.

 

[JacobWizzle]

Seriously, for any hip-hop fan for whom these albums meant anything, you'll like a lot of these stories. Period.

Why anybody would not want to hear the story from the artists mouth is baffling.

Bought both books and love em. I actually sought the Liner Notes book out on Tuesday. Can't say I've ever done that for a book before.

 

[gravelheadwrap]

I like his music too.

 

[faux_rillz]

Rakim Told Me

If you're a fan of vague sensationalistic generalisations that add no new insight to topics that have been beaten into the ground, then this is your kind of book. A lot of chapters in Odub's book were able to much more seriously and intelligently critique and analyze many of the same records in about half the words.

Dude, they're two totally different books. I love Brian's books - they're just straight up, from-the-horse's-mouth accounts on what it was like to put together all the albums that get discussed. It's not meant to be critically frame those albums (that'd be my book) - they're meant to give fans a behind-the-scenes look at what, say, Evil Dee and Walt were tossing around in order to produce "Enta Da Stage."

Seriously, for any hip-hop fan for whom these albums meant anything, you'll like a lot of these stories. Period.

First the ass-hurt in the Just Blaze thread and now this foolishness.

Why is it that SoulStrut dudes struggle with the concept of primary sources?

 

[jaymack]

JUst ordered both mufuckin books from amazon. hope i get them before i leave for my trip on saturday. some good airplane reading.

 

[KidK]

primary sources?

Huh?

Liner notes are primary sources. Press releases are primary sources. Soundscan numbers are primary sources. Saigon airing out Just Blaze is a primary source.

Artist interviews are primary sources.

Brian Coleman telling me seventeen times that Ultramagnetic MCs are 'lyrically ahead of their time' is not a primary source. I would be much more excited about the book if it were simply transcripts of the interviews he had with all the rappers / producers / exectuives / stepfathers.

I'm glad you all enjoy it; it's just not for me, I guess.

 

[Hotsauce84]

Artist interviews are primary sources.

Dude, you obviously haven't seen the book. Here's a brief description of what it is:

simply transcripts of the interviews he had with all the rappers / producers / exectuives / stepfathers.

Jeezus.

 

[Hotsauce84]

primary sources.

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