Rap!: Portraits and Lyrics of a Generation of Black Rockers

by Bill Adler, Doctor Dre (Introduction), Ed Lover (Introduction)

Photographs of musicians and artists celebrate the newest American form of music, rap music, and are accompanied by lyrics from Tone-Loc, Public Enemy, Run DMC, and others

Genres: Music

106 pages, Paperback

First published February 15, 1991

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Bill Adler is an American music journalist and critic who specializes in hip-hop. Since the early 1980s he has promoted hip-hop in a variety of capacities, including as a publicist, biographer, record label executive, documentary filmmaker, museum consultant, art gallerist and curator, and archivist. He may be best known for his tenure as director of publicity at Def Jam Recordings (1984–1990).