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Title: The Haunting of Hip Hop
Author: Bertice Berry
Narrator: J. D. Jackson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-24-08
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Blackboard best-selling author Bertice Berry delivers an entertaining cautionary tale. Everything hip-hop music producer "Freedom" Hudson touches turns to gold. But when he buys a haunted brownstone in Harlem, he gets an earful from a group of ghosts. One of the spirits, an African drummer whose life was destroyed by slavery, has a warning for Freedom: We've passed the drum to you - now use it to send the right message.
©2001 Bertice Berry; (P)2003 Recorded Books LLC
Members Reviews:
Fun and easy read.
I have absolutely fallen in love with this author. She gives a clear perception of the connection between the ancestors, spirits and present day earthly bodies. Such an easy read. A lot of fun and filled with love and understanding.
Nothing short of the best
I loved Ms.Berry's last work "Redemption Song", and now I am reading this latest work. Not even through yet, but I have to say that this time I am definitely backing up my five stars. This is nothing less than the best. We tend to despise hip hop and rap and say it is no good. But, like it or not, it is a part of us. Let's just say that the right message is not coming out of it, and that is what this book is trying to convey. Let me also say that Ms. Berry's works will reach back in time with our history. I like that. Perhaps, the message within this book can be read and conveyed. I also recommend Redemption Song as well. Both of these books should be read as many African Americans as possible.
If I Could Give This Book 4.5 stars, I Would!
The Haunting of Hip Hop is a small but powerful little fictional book that reads like non-fiction.
Harry "Freedom" Hudson has the Midas touch and creates hip-hop success with every collaboration and production. One day he decides that he must have a certain house in an old Harlem neighborhood...although the house is old and run-down it seems to be calling his name. There are rumors that the house is haunted, however, Freedom isn't fazed and he requests that his lawyer, Ava Vercher, do research to purchase the house. Ava has heard about the house being haunted as well, so she decides to enlist the help of her childhood friend, Charles to go and check out the house. When Ava and Charles enter the house, they are unprepared for the group that meets them. Lo and behold, the house is truly haunted and ...these "spirit memories" include Ngozi, an African drummer whose life was brutally interrupted by slavery; Bella, a singer murdered by her white gangster lover; and Johnny, a boy who was killed by his father. Ngozi wants to pass down his beat--which contains the love that has gone out of rap music--to Freedom, while Bella just wants revenge. However, all of the spirits are waiting for Freedom to arrive so that they can take him under their wings.
The Haunting of Hip Hop was a fascinated and intriguing read. I sat down with this book on a rainy afternoon and became so engrossed by it that I was finished in a few hours. I enjoyed the symbolism of the drum and the tie to rap music. I liked how there was an ancestral tie to the present, and how the materialism and exploitive spirit of Rap was being haunted by the past. However, I was a little disappointed that after Freedom entered the house the pace of the story slowed down and sort of fizzled out.
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Title: The Haunting of Hip Hop
Author: Bertice Berry
Narrator: J. D. Jackson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 54 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-24-08
Publisher: Recorded Books
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
Blackboard best-selling author Bertice Berry delivers an entertaining cautionary tale. Everything hip-hop music producer "Freedom" Hudson touches turns to gold. But when he buys a haunted brownstone in Harlem, he gets an earful from a group of ghosts. One of the spirits, an African drummer whose life was destroyed by slavery, has a warning for Freedom: We've passed the drum to you - now use it to send the right message.
©2001 Bertice Berry; (P)2003 Recorded Books LLC
Members Reviews:
Fun and easy read.
I have absolutely fallen in love with this author. She gives a clear perception of the connection between the ancestors, spirits and present day earthly bodies. Such an easy read. A lot of fun and filled with love and understanding.
Nothing short of the best
I loved Ms.Berry's last work "Redemption Song", and now I am reading this latest work. Not even through yet, but I have to say that this time I am definitely backing up my five stars. This is nothing less than the best. We tend to despise hip hop and rap and say it is no good. But, like it or not, it is a part of us. Let's just say that the right message is not coming out of it, and that is what this book is trying to convey. Let me also say that Ms. Berry's works will reach back in time with our history. I like that. Perhaps, the message within this book can be read and conveyed. I also recommend Redemption Song as well. Both of these books should be read as many African Americans as possible.
If I Could Give This Book 4.5 stars, I Would!
The Haunting of Hip Hop is a small but powerful little fictional book that reads like non-fiction.
Harry "Freedom" Hudson has the Midas touch and creates hip-hop success with every collaboration and production. One day he decides that he must have a certain house in an old Harlem neighborhood...although the house is old and run-down it seems to be calling his name. There are rumors that the house is haunted, however, Freedom isn't fazed and he requests that his lawyer, Ava Vercher, do research to purchase the house. Ava has heard about the house being haunted as well, so she decides to enlist the help of her childhood friend, Charles to go and check out the house. When Ava and Charles enter the house, they are unprepared for the group that meets them. Lo and behold, the house is truly haunted and ...these "spirit memories" include Ngozi, an African drummer whose life was brutally interrupted by slavery; Bella, a singer murdered by her white gangster lover; and Johnny, a boy who was killed by his father. Ngozi wants to pass down his beat--which contains the love that has gone out of rap music--to Freedom, while Bella just wants revenge. However, all of the spirits are waiting for Freedom to arrive so that they can take him under their wings.
The Haunting of Hip Hop was a fascinated and intriguing read. I sat down with this book on a rainy afternoon and became so engrossed by it that I was finished in a few hours. I enjoyed the symbolism of the drum and the tie to rap music. I liked how there was an ancestral tie to the present, and how the materialism and exploitive spirit of Rap was being haunted by the past. However, I was a little disappointed that after Freedom entered the house the pace of the story slowed down and sort of fizzled out.