| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap. By Eithne Quinn. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. xvi, 251 pp. Cloth, $62.50, ISBN 0-231-12408-2. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 0-231-12409-0.)
This book is a welcomed addition to a growing body of scholarship on hip-hop and a good contribution to the study of race, class, gender, and black cultural production in the last two decades of the twentieth century. Focusing on the rise of gangsta rap in the Southwest, Eithne Quinn creates a well-developed study of the complexities of gangsta rap and gives important attention to the role that market forces and entrepreneurial pursuits have played in the development of the genre.	1
Having taken form in the economically marginalized sections of New York City among African American and Puerto Rican youth in the early 1970s, hip-hop had achieved considerable commercial success by the late 1980s. Rap music (one of the four elements of hip-hop) had begun stylistically to fissure during this time, as gangsta rap developed primarily— although not exclusively—in California. Focusing on such rappers as Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and others, Quinn adds new interpretations of the ascension of gangsta rap from the margins of popular music to its dominance in hip-hop by the mid-1990s.	. . .

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