384 pages with 8 pages of images. Hip-Hopulation is a new book by Nick Donnelly, a former music video director who has directed music videos with Method Man, Ruff Ryders, and interviewed Hip-Hop artists such as Ghostface Killah, Freddie Gibbs, Immortal Technique, Talib Kweli and many more,Set across 20 hours of personal conversations during the 50th year of Hip-Hop, Nick talks uncensored and exclusively to 15 of the most inspiring Hip-Hop artists across every living continent in the world, artists who have had over a billion streams on their music.In Hip-Hopulation read exclusively from: BK, a Hip-Hop artist from the notorious 'City of God' slums in Brazil who has had his music videos watched more times than the population of Brazil. Prabh Deep, who produced a record in New Delhi, India in a room with no windows and with very little money, to then get to number 1 on the ITunes chart. Ez Mil, from The Philippines who signed to, and collaborated with, Eminem on his record 'The Realest' and 'Head Honcho', the latter taken from Eminem's latest album 'The Death of Slim Shady' R-Mean in Los Angeles whose latest independent album is produced entirely by super producer Scott Storch and features Nas, Method Man and more. Lioness, a rapper and a doctor in Namibia. Frenkie, who escaped the Bosnian War as a child to return to Bosnia and helped bring Hip-Hop to the decaying buildings, restoring hope to the people in the community. Kobie Dee, an Aboriginal Hip-Hop artist in Australia Jords, the first UK rapper to sign to Motown Records, being interviewed at an anti-knife crime charity in South London And more celebrated artists from Italy, Sweden, New York City, London, Manchester and Amsterdam. Hip-Hopulation is the first book in the history of Hip-Hop to unite the global artists around the world. The book is filled with stories of hope, struggle and passion from artists who lead change in their community, while being told throughout by an independent artist sharing his own stories of rising from living in race riots in a small working class town to shooting no budget music videos with immigrants on estates to standing on stage with Wu-Tang Clan and making a music video for a record that Jay-Z sampled on the title track to his last album.Whether you are a fan of the culture, or you want to discover new stories of courage and hope around the world, Hip-Hopulation invites you to a world of change. IN MEMORY OF BUTTERFLY HAUS.
