Publisher's Synopsis
"With Golden: Diary of A Hip-Hop Kid I aim to document how hip-hop history took shape in New York City. It's important to me that the new generation honors and remembers what came before. This was a time when there was diversity and socially aware messages in the music: from Grandmaster Flash, who kicked things off with The Message, to KRS One to Public Enemy to Tupac and Biggie and beyond. It's when Ronald Reagan and George Bush were Presidents of the United States and they came down hard on the Black community - hip-hop was our voice. Politics, poverty, inner city blues - all of this was covered by rappers and the whole world started listening to them. We call it 'the golden age' for several reasons: one, because it was when rapping and graffiti were fresh and, two, because fat gold "dookie" chains were a symbol of rap star status
