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Details have just been announced regarding the release of the book “Check The Technique Volume 2: More Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies” by veteran Boston-based music journalist Brian Coleman. It is the follow-up to 2007’s acclaimed Check the Technique which has sold more than 11,000 copies to date.
The upcoming 544-page softcover book, which will be released in early October 2014 on Wax Facts Press. Presenting never-before-told, behind-the-scenes histories ranging from influential ’80s masterpieces like DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince’s “He’s The DJ, I’m The Rapper” and 3rd Bass’s “The Cactus Album” to ’90s classics like Ice Cube’s “AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted”, Mos Def’s and Talib Kweli’s “Are Black Starr” and Dr. Octagon’s “Dr. Octagonecologyst”, the book’s approach is one that Coleman calls Invisible Liner Notes – retracing the story of an album step by step, in collaboration with the artists themselves.
Weighing in at over 540 pages, the 25-chapter book includes lively, in-depth, provocative interviews with more than 80 artists, DJs, producers and industry insiders. All in all, 325 hip-hop songs are discussed and dissected, by the artists who made them.
Buy “Check The Technique” Volume 2 book HERE