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Gangsta Rap

Gangsta Rap

by Benjamin Zephaniah (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2004

    $3.36

  • Used

    Paperback 2008

    $3.36
Synopsis

Ray has given up school. He sees no point in education and despises authority. And then he has no choice about school as he is excluded. But Ray also has troubles at home, which means he has nowhere to stay and ends up sleeping in the local record shop, owned by his friend Marga Man. Ray and his friends attend a Social Exclusion Project which means they can develop their music skills. Marga Man gets a record deal for them, and they become local heroes. But another rap band takes a dislike to Ray's music and gang warfare is the result...Based on Benjamin's own troubled experience of school and the music business, his passionate, immediate voice will appeal to all his fans.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 06 Sep 2004
ISBN 10: 0747565651
ISBN 13: 9780747565659
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
 Book Overview: fantastic new novel from this acclaimed writer boys being excluded from school along with rap band rivalries ensures a highly topical read, over 50,000 copies sold of Face; over 30,000 of Refugee Boy within one year of publication

Media Reviews
The authority with which the story is written leaves the reader no choice but to be drawn in - and indeed educated - into the world of gangsta rap, with all the appropriate vocabulary. Not for a long time have I read a book with such a 'pick me up again' factor Independent on Sunday
Author Bio
Benjamin Zephaniah is probably one of the most high-profile international authors writing today, with an enormous breadth of appeal, equally popular with both adults and children. Most well-known for his performance poetry with a political edge for adults and ground-breaking performance poetry for children, Benjamin also has his own rap/reggae band, and has appeared on desert Island Discs. He is in constant demand internationally to perform his work: he is (he thinks) Nelson Mandela's favourite poet, and is the only Rastafarian poet to be short-listed for the Chairs of Poetry for both Oxford and Cambridge University. His previous novels for Bloomsbury are 'Face' and 'Refugee' Boy'. He has also edited an anthology of poems 'The Bloomsbury Book of Love Poems' . Benjamin lives in East Ham, London.