VIDEO: Why I Wrote “The Big Payback”
Here’s the first installment in my new web video series for The Big Payback, produced by my comrade, the award-winning Antonio Neves, and shot and edited with great skill by the aptly-named Jon Genius.
We’ll be rolling these nine videos out over the course of the next two months.
Play it, embed it, circulate it!
Peep the video after the jump…
In Memoriam: JMJ taught Lyor Cohen the business
I knew Jam Master Jay only in passing. I met him when I was a young mail clerk at Profile Records, running packages between Profile and the recording studio where Run-DMC was completing their Back from Hell album. But Jay was always the most approachable of the crew. One of the stories I tell in […]
Dan Charnas Spotlighted On AtlantaPost.com
“The Big Payback: The History Of The Business Of Hip-Hop” hits the blogs with The Atlanta Post‘s profile, “The Economic Machine Behind Hip-Hop.” Many thanks to Ali Abidi, who had the dubious honor of conducting the first interview that yours truly has done on behalf of the new book. Special thanks to Nazneen Patel for […]
Dan Charnas at The Brooklyn Book Festival on 9/12
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 @ 2 PM, come see me, Dan Charnas (author, The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop), speak on the panel CULTURE VS. CASH at the Brooklyn Book Festival, moderated by the esteemed Greg Tate, alongside authors Will Hermes and Kristin Hersh. VENUE: St. Francis College, Maroney Screening Room, 180 […]
The Book
So it’s done. After almost two years of relative radio silence on this here blog, I’ve just completed the last edits to the text of a book that I began writing almost four years ago. It’s called The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop, the first-ever definitive narrative—spanning an epic 40 years—of […]