![]() ![]() However, the theme of Bomb the Suburbs, if there was to be a single theme, was not simply race relations or hip-hop. It includes a scene where Upski, a secular Jew, gets in a fight with one of his classmates, the son of Minister Farrakhan. ![]() Most of this material covers hip hop topics such as rap and graffiti.īomb the Suburbs describes Upski's teenage years in Chicago and his differing attitudes towards the black people he grew up with, which ranged from hate to worship. Most of the source material for the first book was taken from various articles that Upski had written for the Source and On the Go, two (at the time) underground hip-hop magazines. ![]() Upski is perhaps best known for his two books- Bomb the Suburbs and No More Prisons, both independently published books that sold several tens of thousands of copies in various independent book stores across the country. William Upski Wimsatt is a journalist who has drawn an interesting path across the 1990s in America, and seems to be doing the same for this decade. ![]()
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