Review: Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
User Review - Dave Analog - GoodreadsI absolutely loved this book, and having lived in Chicago my whole life and been a graf writer in my younger days i cant totally relate to this book. Especially when he names certain spots that dont ... Read full review
Review: Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
User Review - Kony - GoodreadsPutting this back on the shelf for now because, despite being about interesting things, it's written in a critical voice that oozes contempt for all things mainstream and borders on whiney. Right now ... Read full review
Review: Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
User Review - David - GoodreadsThis is the book on race that I always hoped existed. Wimsatt's essay "We Use Words Like Mackadocious" was definitely the best thing he's presented in this collection. The interviews and stories are ... Read full review
Review: Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
User Review - Shenanitims - GoodreadsThis book opened my mind to a lot of ideas. Such as the idea of how to be successful while still remaining true to yourself. So that when my college guidance counselor told me I could either take a ... Read full review
Review: Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
User Review - Christy - GoodreadsHilarious/insightful/wtf so far. And I admit I am 10 years late in reading this book. *update! Really enjoyed this book. Patchwork, but written from a perspective I know little about, in a frank and honest style. Also appreciate the recommendation to always wear a mask. Good point... Read full review
Review: Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
User Review - Steven - Goodreadsinteresting perspective...wouldn't mind re-reading the book....just have to find out who I lent it out to.... Read full review
Review: Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
User Review - Kristy - GoodreadsTrue story: I'm an ex-suburbanite happily living in Chicago - or as I like to think of it, a "rehabbed" suburbanite. I mean that quite literally: moving out of the suburbs was like attending rehab, in ... Read full review
Review: Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
User Review - Dave - GoodreadsThis reads more like a zine than a book, which made me love it even more. Upski's got the urge to chronicle a lot art, in this case 80s and 90s Chicago hip-hop in the same way as one of my favorite ... Read full review
Review: Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
User Review - Adam - GoodreadsI don't think I got the whole political activism and the empowerment of youth that has been getting so much hipe these days until I read this book. ...And this was the book "Upski" wrote when he was ... Read full review
Review: Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
User Review - Joann - GoodreadsSometimes insightful, sometimes pretentious, sometimes boring. It was interesting to read about Chicago and hip hop from Wimsatt's perspective. Read full review
