Kool Moe Dee

"Hip-hop is like a sandwich arguing with itself, saying the bread is more important than the meat or the meat is more important than the bread...[T]he Bronx has a story, but Harlem has a story also."

I wrote a book about 60 years of New York City rock music scenes called This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, and Vanished Spaces in New York City which came out last week (you can purchase it here). Naturally, in the course of writing a book about New York City music scenes, I interviewed a lot of New York City musicians, deejays, club workers and …