ORIGINAL GANGSTAS BOOK - TUPAC SHAKUR, DR DRE, EAZY-E, ICE CUBE AND THE BIRTH OF WEST COAST RAP

Late 1980s, Los Angeles. It all starts with a group of friends from the Compton ghetto. Eazy-E, Ice Cube and Dr. Dre form the group NWA (Niggaz With Attitudes) and define the bases of a new genre: gangsta rap.

But this cultural revolution is accompanied by a dark side and, behind the scenes, musicians, producers, label bosses and traffickers are waging an open war under the eye of a cynical and violent Californian police.

It is this creative emulation against a backdrop of score-settling that American journalist Ben Westhoff describes after five years of investigation.

An urban epic where music, drugs, violence merged to create a new scene, a movement that continues to expand its influence on youth around the world.

“Ben Westhoff has taken what has always seemed like an almost inextricable tangle of intrigues and twists and turns in gangsta rap and turned it into a solid, flawless book. »