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Gangsta Rap
- Author
- Benjamin Zephaniah
- Narrator
- Ben Bailey Smith
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 2 September 2021
- Run Time
- 6 hours 21 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Music and musicians, Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Self-awareness and self-esteem, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Bullying, violence, abuse and peer pressure
What to expect
A fairytale of hip-hop success ... teens will enjoy the thrilling music fantasy, while many will identify with the smart, talented boys who grow up quickly and rescue themselves' Booklist
An electrifying novel from hugely popular performance poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah, exploring the rap music scene, inequality and three boys caught up in it
Just what do you do with talent from the wrong side of town? Benjamin Zephaniah draws on his own experiences with school and the music business to create a novel that speaks with passion and immediacy about the rap scene.
Ray has trouble at home, and he has trouble at school – until he’s permanently excluded and ends up sleeping on the floor of a record shop. What happens to a boy like Ray? If he’s lucky, maybe he gets a chance to shine.
The story of three boys who aren’t easy. They don’t fit in. They seem to attract trouble. But they know what they want, and they’ve got the talent to back it up ...
Brilliantly written and with a real ear for dialogue, fans of Angie Thomas and Malorie Blackman will love Benjamin Zephaniah's novels for young adult readers:
Refugee Boy
Face
Gangsta Rap
Teacher's Dead
Critics Review
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The authority with which the story is written leaves the reader no choice but to be drawn in – and indeed educated – into the world of gangsta rap, with all the appropriate vocabulary. Not for a long time have I read a book with such a ‘pick me up again’ factor
Independent on Sunday on GANGSTA RAP
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A fairytale of hip-hop success ... teens will enjoy the thrilling music fantasy, while many will identify with the smart, talented boys who grow up quickly and rescue themselves
Booklist on GANGSTA RAP
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Benjamin Zephaniah rides straight through everybody’s taboos, everybody’s prejudices, everybody’s niceties and gets straight to the heart of the matter … Strong, honest, democratic, accessible to all, Teacher’s Dead comes highly recommended
The Bookbag’s Jill Murphy on TEACHER’S DEAD
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A brilliant first novel
Guardian on FACE
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A lively and positive account of a boy who is badly scarred in a joyriding crash, and how he comes to terms with it ... incredibly well told
Irish Times on FACE
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An impressive debut, carefully researched ... Zephaniah writes wonderfully natural dialogue with the same ease as he spins out rhyming couplets
Herald on FACE
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The playful, obstinate and courageously humorous tone of Zephaniah’s writing shines through ... hilarious and later heartbreaking
Alfred Hickling, Guardian on REFUGEE BOY
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Sweet, funny, highly inventive
Yorkshire Post on REFUGEE BOY
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Humour and innocence are both to the fore as is a sweetness of tone ... more street than poetic, and personal yet universal, Refugee Boy is well told by an impassioned writer
York Press on REFUGEE BOY
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Details
- Author
- Benjamin Zephaniah
- Narrator
- Ben Bailey Smith
- Duration
- 6 hours 21 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 September 2021
- ISBN
- 9781526637970
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Music and musicians, Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Self-awareness and self-esteem, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Bullying, violence, abuse and peer pressure
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Gangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah, read by Ben Bailey Smith.A fairytale of hip-hop success ... teens will enjoy the thrilling music fantasy, while many will identify with the smart, talented boys who grow up quickly and rescue themselves' BooklistAn electrifying novel from hugely popular performance poet and novelist Benjamin Zephaniah, exploring the rap music scene, inequality and three boys caught up in itJust what do you do with talent from the wrong side of town? Benjamin Zephaniah draws on his own experiences with school and the music business to create a novel that speaks with passion and immediacy about the rap scene.Ray has trouble at home, and he has trouble at school – until he’s permanently excluded and ends up sleeping on the floor of a record shop. What happens to a boy like Ray? If he’s lucky, maybe he gets a chance to shine.The story of three boys who aren’t easy. They don’t fit in. They seem to attract trouble. But they know what they want, and they’ve got the talent to back it up ...Brilliantly written and with a real ear for dialogue, fans of Angie Thomas and Malorie Blackman will love Benjamin Zephaniah's novels for young adult readers: Refugee BoyFaceGangsta RapTeacher's Dead
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