Beatmakers of L.A. Underground Hip Hop (Hardcover)

The new book BEATMAKERS OF L.A. UNDERGROUND HIP HOP features autobiographical oral history of producers of the Good Life, Project Blowed, and early L.A. Beat Scene: JMD (Freestyle Fellowship), Fat Jack (Abstract Tribe Unique), Riddlore and NgaFsh of Chillin Villain Empire, Sach of The Nonce, Omid Walizadeh, Mumbles, Deeskee, Nobody, Thavius Beck, and Daedelus.

Based on 65 hours of new interviews, these ten chapters explore albums such as Freestyle Fellowship’s Innercity Griots, Project Blowed, Aceyalone’s All Balls Don’t Bounce and A Book of Human Language, The Nonce’s World Ultimate, Omid’s Beneath the Surface, Fat Jack’s Cater to the DJ, Nobody’s Soulmates, and many more.

Woven into the chapters are additional interviews with Abstract Rude, AWOL One, Medusa the Gangsta Goddess, J Sw!ft (The Pharcyde), O-Roc, Randall Willis, Stacey Dee, Neila, Xololanxinxo, Existereo, Radioinactive, Jizzm, Circus, and more. 2Mex (Of Mexican Descent / The Visionaries) acts as the narrator, introducing each chapter with his expert and personal point of view.