May 5, 2021

The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
Written by Shea Serrano & Illustrated by Arturo Torres

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For those of you who are participating, first of all I want to think you for humoring me and being willing to try this out. If you're on the fence, feel free to observe and jump in down the line if you decide you want to participate! If this is successful, I'd love for this to be an ongoing thing with other people picking books and "hosting" the book club.

Before I move on, one more thing: I'd like to respectfully ask that you not participate in these discussions unless you're reading the book or have read it before. Thank you, and remember—I can provide an ebook for you if you'd like to read and discuss!

Here's the basic gist of how this is going to work:
1. Each week, we will read four chapters (besides the first week because there's the forward and the intro). This is only about 25-30 pages (including charts and illustrations), so hopefully this should be doable for everyone.

2. Every Monday, I will put up a thread with questions about the previous week's reading.

3. Throughout the week, you will have a chance to discuss anything you want about the chapters/songs—I will pose some questions, but I'd love it if others do too.

4. The reason I'm doing a different thread for each week is so that discussion from previous weeks can easily be continued if someone falls behind and wants to share their thoughts, or if people just want to continue the discussion period.

With the exception of this first week, the schedule should be roughly the same from week to week. Here's an example for the first few weeks:

Spoiler: Schedule

Week of 5/10
1. Get the book if you haven't already (or let me know if you need a digital copy and I can send you one)
2. Read the forward by Ice-T and the introduction that tells you about Serrano's criteria for choosing songs. I strongly urge you to read at least the introduction before you start the book because it will be important to our discussions!!!
3. If you'd like, discuss the the intro and forward, and ask any questions about the book or book club process
4. Read and discuss first three chapters (1979, 1980, and 1981)

Week of 5/17
1. Read and discuss the chapters for 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985

Week of 5/24
1. Read and discuss the chapters for 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989

Week of 5/31
3. Read and discuss the chapters for 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993

 

May 10, 2021

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May 9, 2021

Please join the BookClub mention group so I can let you know when the weekly thread is up!

 

May 11, 2021

Yeah the modified way makes more sense I'm just gonna do it lol

 

May 11, 2021

Nah I'm thinking it makes more sense to have each week be reading and discussing the chapters at the same time throughout the week. Cuz the way I initially envisioned it was that I'd give people a week to do the reading, then the next week we'd discuss what we'd already read + would read the next handful of chapters. Anyway here's the original way:

Spoiler: Original

Week of 5/10
1. Get the book if you haven't already (or let me know if you need a digital copy and I can send you one)
2. Read the forward by Ice-T and the introduction that tells you about Serrano's criteria for choosing songs. I strongly urge you to read at least the introduction before you start the book because it will be important to our discussions!!!
3. If you'd like, discuss the the intro and forward, and ask any questions about the book or book club process
4. Read the first three chapters (1979, 1980, and 1981)

Week of 5/17
1. Discuss the chapters for 1979, 1980, and 1981
2. Read the chapters for 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985

Week of 5/24
1. Discuss the chapters for 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985
2. Read the chapters for 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989

Week of 5/31
1. Discuss the chapters for 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989
2. Read the chapters for 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993

And the modified way, which I think might make more sense if everyone;s with that:

Spoiler: modified

Week of 5/10
1. Get the book if you haven't already (or let me know if you need a digital copy and I can send you one)
2. Read the forward by Ice-T and the introduction that tells you about Serrano's criteria for choosing songs. I strongly urge you to read at least the introduction before you start the book because it will be important to our discussions!!!
3. If you'd like, discuss the the intro and forward, and ask any questions about the book or book club process
4. Read the first three chapters (1979, 1980, and 1981)
5. Discuss the first three chapters (1979, 1980, and 1981)

Week of 5/17
1. Read and discuss the chapters for 1982, 1983, 1984, and 1985

Week of 5/24
1. Read and discuss the chapters for 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989

Week of 5/31
3. Read and discuss the chapters for 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993

 

May 10, 2021

Also, just wanted to emphasize this for the first week:

Week of 5/10
1. Get the book if you haven't already (or let me know if you need a digital copy and I can send you one)
2. Read the forward by Ice-T and the introduction that tells you about Serrano's criteria for choosing songs. I strongly urge you to read at least the introduction before you start the book because it will be important to our discussions!!!
3. If you'd like, discuss the the intro and forward, and ask any questions about the book or book club process
4. Read and discuss first three chapters (1979, 1980, and 1981)

 

May 10, 2021

Dope, I added you to the DM in case you need a digital copy

 

May 10, 2021

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