A comprehensive and lavishly illustrated encyclopedia celebrating rap's 50th anniversary!

In 2023, rap will turn 50! In this exciting book, music journalist Olivier Cachin traces the history of this movement born in the Bronx borough of New York on August 11, 1973, during a gathering of DJs, graffiti artists, and dancers that marked the begninning of hip-hop. Next came block parties, the first hit "Rapper’s Delight," the West Coast invasion and the golden age of American rap, the Atlantic crossing with a French TV show and superstars from IAM to NTM to Assassin, not to mention Secteur Ä, MC Solaar, and Orelsan.