Welcome To Death Row: The Uncensored Oral History of Death Row Records in the Words of Those Who Were There - Softcover

Welcome To Death Row : The Uncensored Oral History of Death Row Records in the Words of Those Who Were There

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Savidge's prose is colorful and punchy.a fascinating chronicle of a renegade record label'-KirkusIt started in Compton. It ended in infamy.In the wake of Marion 'Suge' Knight's power move to rip Dr. Dre from Eazy E's Ruthless Records and NWA, Death Row Records exploded on the music scene in 1992 with a gangsta rap sound that took the world by storm. Yet despite its unprecedented success with stars such as Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur, it quickly unraveled in a firestorm of rivalries, greed, violence and government scrutiny as Knight's unconventional business methods increasingly mirrored the often violent and hard-edged themes of its music. The book is derived from the award-winning documentary film of the same name.Welcome to Death Row is the complete and largely untold story of the rise and fall of Death Row Records, presented as an oral history through first-hand accounts of the people who lived it. Interwoven with these personal testimonials is the story of the high risk quest on the part of director S. Leigh Savidge --and producers Steve Housden and Jeff Scheftel --to complete the Welcome to Death Row documentary. It's a story filled with a rogues gallery of Crips & Bloods, cocaine kingpins, gangsta rappers, crooked lawyers and thuggish music executives where the threat of violent retaliation lurked around every corner.Universal Pictures' Straight Outta Compton was developed by Savidge and his company, Xenon Pictures, Inc. He wrote the original drafts of the screenplay for which he received an Oscar-nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Artikel-Nr. 9781597884068

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