The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop Dan Charnas
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

In this exclusive for Complex, Charnas distills some of the book's essence into a master list of The 25 Biggest Business Power Moves in Hip-Hop History. Dan Charnas: "The Big Payback" - The History Of The Business Of Hip Hop. Dan Charnas is the author of The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop (New American Library/Penguin) and the co-author of Def Jam: The First 25 Years of the Last Great record Label (Rizzoli). The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop The Big Payback takes readers from the first made by a rapping DJ in 1970s New York to the. I haven't read the book, but I am glad the thought is out there. Culled from over 300 interviews, The Big Payback spans 40 years, from 1968 to 2008. I slept on this but peep below: Dan Charnas, author of The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop has launched a companion video series to accompany the critically acclaimed new book. On this four-decade-long journey from the studios where the first rap records were made to the boardrooms where the big deals were inked, The Big Payback tallies the list of who lost and who won. Monumental in every way, The Big Payback: The History Of The Business Of Hip-Hop delivers not simply a new version of a well-known story, but one that's a constant revelation. Hip Hop is no different from any other cultural product in the sights of money making. The business is discussing the entire genre.