Hip Hop Culture

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Hip-hop expert and Backspin publisher Niko Huls, together with Porsche, has created a new travel guide to Europe' s hip-hop music and culture. Far from promotion tours or concert halls, Huls meets and talks to rappers, DJs, street performers and breakdancers. Part of Porsche' s ' Back 2 Tape' documentary series, this guide sheds a light on the influence of urban hip-hop youth culture in European cities. With 17 artists from Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, France, Spain and Denmark, it combines portraits of hip-hop stars such as Kool Savas (Berlin), Lord Esperanza (Paris), Edson Sabajo (Amsterdam), Falsalarma (Barcelona), Lars Pedersen (Copenhagen) and the Flying Steps (Berlin) with destinations that every hip-hop and road trip fan in Europe should visit. "This book is an invitation to encounter European hip-hop culture with all its diversity in an open and positive way. . . " Niko Huls AUTHOR: Niko Huls is a music journalist, and the publisher of the hip-hop magazine Backspin. SELLING POINTS: A hip-hop road trip travel guide through 6 European countries following in the footsteps of rappers, graffiti artists, DJs, and breakdancers Organised by Porsche in collaboration with hip-hop expert Niko Huls Hip-hop is not just a clothing style or a music genre - hip-hop has the power to connect people from different countries and backgrounds and to hand down values like respect, tolerance and passion from generation to generation