City Kid
A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success
"City Kid is perhaps one of the seven greatest books ever written. It has the realness of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the warmth of The Color Purple, and the page count of Tuesdays with Morrie. It's a must read."-Chris Rock
From Nelson George, supervising producer and writer of the hit Netflix series, "The Get Down, an affecting memoir of his coming of age.
Nelson George was the nerd of his ghetto neighborhood; the kid who devoured Captain America comics, Ernest Hemingway novels, and album liner notes. City Kid describes how George evolved into an award-winning journalist and filmmaker, becoming a key figure in framing hip hop for the rest of us. The story begins with a fractured family life-an…
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March 30, 2010Nelson George is the author of eight books, including Elevating the Game, The Death of Rhythm and Blues, Where Did Our Love Go?, Seduced, and the highly praised Buppies, B-Boys, Baps & Bohos. A graduate of St. John's University, he was Billboard's black music editor for seven years before becoming a regular columnist for The Village Voice in 1989. He is a cowriter of the screenplays Strictly Business and CB4, as well as a Grammy Award winner for James Brown's album Startime. George was born and grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
The Darkest Hearts
Nelson George
To Funk and Die in LA
Nelson George
What Is Hip-Hop?
Nelson George; Eric Morse
The Accidental Hunter
Nelson George
The Lost Treasures of R&B
Nelson George
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel
Nelson George
City Kid
Nelson George
The James Brown Reader
Nelson George
Post-Soul Nation
Nelson George
Hip Hop America
Nelson George
The Death of Rhythm and Blues
Nelson George
Seduced
Nelson George