BC044 - Book review: 'The Come Up'

Now in paperback, this oral history of hip-hop reads like a chore.

Jonathan Abrams, The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop (Crown, 2022)

I got this book a year ago, intending to review it in this space in a timely manner; I’m doing so now because it’s newly out in paperback, and because I picked it up again hoping I’d been wrong about its shortcomings before. Sadly not.