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Ever on a hustle, the hip-hop scene of Houston, Texas finally gets its proper due. Houston Rap is a 272-paged book edited as a 24-hour glimpse into the culture, syrupy stylings, and community of the gritty southern rap scene. A culmination of nine years of work, photographer Peter Beste and writer Lance Scott Walker immersed themselves in the Texas neighborhoods of Third Ward, Fifth Ward and South Park to document the lives and everyday grinds of their rappers, denizens and entrepreneurs. We take you from the projects to the studio to the strip club and back, all along with an on-going oral history narrative from the people of the culture, says the book's editor, Johan Kugelberg. The result is an assemblage of images and yarns that offer surprising insight through their raw candor and compassion. It is an honest look at the faces and places of true Houston hustle - not the showboating façade - where rappers are businessmen first and foremost.--Jamie Maleszka Leveled (10/01/2013)

The HOUSTON RAP book is available for pre-order now! AW friends Peter Beste & Lance Scott Walker have been working on this book for the last 8 years and it has now launched via publishing company Sinecure Books. Houston legend BUN B wrote the forward and our very own GONZO247 designed and created the slipcase cover art.--Editor Aerosol Warfare (10/21/2013)

Houston Rap will focus more on Beste's visual work with some oral history text by another Houston native, writer Lance Scott Walker. Another book The Houston Rap Tapes will include fewer of Beste's photos and more of Walker's extensive interviews with local hip-hop artists. Houston Rap includes an introduction by Bun B, while The Houston Rap Tapes includes an intro by the Geto Boys' Willie D.--2995 Staff Houston Chronicle (Blog)

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