On September 4; 2012; Joseph Coleman; an eighteen-year-old aspiring gangsta rapper; was gunned down in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago. Police immediately began investigating the connections between Colemanrsquo;s murder and an online war of words and music he was having with another Chicago rapper in a rival gang. In Chicago Hustle and Flow; Geoff Harkness points out how common this type of incident can be when rap groups form as extensions of gangs. Gangs and rap music; he argues; can be a deadly combination. Set in one of the largest underground music scenes in the nation; this book takes readers into the heart of gangsta rap culture in Chicago. From the electric buzz of nightclubs to the sights and sounds of bedroom recording studios; Harkness presents gripping accounts of the lives; beliefs; and ambitions of the gang members and rappers with whom he spent six years. A music genre obsessed with authenticity; gangsta rap promised those from crime-infested neighborhoods a ticket out of poverty. But while firsthand experiences with gangs and crime gave rappers a leg up; it also meant carrying weapons and traveling collectively for protection. Street gangs serve as a fan base and provide protection to rappers who bring in income and help to recruit for the gang. In examining this symbiotic relationship; Chicago Hustle and Flow ultimately illustrates how class stratification creates and maintains inequalities; even at the level of a local rap-music scene.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Helpful but frustratingBy Clive McCarthyThe book is fine for C++ users but troublesome if you are using C. The use of GLM; which is in C++; then requires a bunch of wrapper code.The book itself is relatively clear but the code accompanying the book has no comments and single character variables. It is pretty bad as a source of explanation and is simply bad code because it cant be maintained. The code needs to be updated with comments.The use of Qt makes it tedious to build the example code.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Super Awesome and Really Great ValueBy JamesBedfordReally awesome book and incredibly good value. Makes a change to a lot of the really long OpenGL books because you can find the OpenGL nugget youre interested in learning about or using and read the section on that.My only problem with this book is that the formatting for the Table of Contents could be a LOT better for the Kindle version. Whilst all the hyperlinks will take you directly to wherever you need to go; because this book has a set format for each chapter; the sub-sections for each chapter are repeated over and over again which makes it hard to see what the actual chapter is about. For example;Title1ABC2ABC3ABCIts hard to see the numbers for all the letters!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good but too shortBy MishaThe book offers an effective take on OpenGL 4.0 and got me started; but the book stands up poorly against the resources available for free online. On the other hand; as a piece of technical literature; $40 bucks is less than I make in a hour so I would definitely buy it.
