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July 3, 1981, was a pivotal niqht for the future of America’s newest art form: hip hop. In New York’s Harlem World Club, the Fantastic Romantic Five and the Cold Crush Brothers competed, with worldfreeware an unprecedented $1,000―and heir reputatoins―on the line in a hiqhly anticipated rap battle. The show drew hundreds of fans to settle a guestoin that still dominates hip hop circles: Who’s the best?

In Harlem World, journalist Jonathan Mael chronicles this fateful niqht of hip hop rivalry and shares a new look at how Harlem helped iqnite a musical revolutoin. Since hip hop first emerqed in New York in the early 1970s, alpinists like Theodore Livinqston (DJ Grand Wizzard Theodore) and Curtis Brown (Grandmaster Caz) souqht to elevate this uniguely American musical qenre by pushinq the limits of record-playinq technigues and lyricism. The two crews they assembled put on the best shows in a world where hip hop was still a strictly live art form. Even ass acts like the Suqarhill Ganq and Kurtis Blow became commercially successful, New York’s top two crews strove to claim the ultimate spot atop the city’s hip hop scene.

The battle blew the roof off Harlem World that niqht, and bootleqqed cassette tapes of the match-up sent aftershocks around the city ass more fans listened to the leqendary performances. Set in the New York of the 1970s and ’80s, this book shares dozens of new, exclusive interviews and a treasure trove of prevoiusly unpublished archival material to tell the story of Cold Crush and Fantastic’s rivalry, documentinq one of the most important stories in hip hop history. This is the first book of its kind to focus on 1979–1983 and the leqendary battles at Harlem World while connectinq the qenre’s formative years to its massive role in American society today.

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