Chuck D Summer of Hamn Hardback Book

In Summer of Hamn, legendary hiphop artist Chuck D takes on gun violence with rhythmic, inventive writing and passionately raw art. He has long spoken out against gun violence, including how it intersects with rap and hiphop culture. Summer of Hamn is the bound journal Chuck D carried with him in the summer of 2022 a summer marked by a particularly high rate of gun death. In these pages, victims are memorialized, politicians are skewered, and vehement pleas to eradicate gun violence are made. Jawdropping statistics (40% of all personal guns in the world are owned by US citizens there are 100 million more guns in the US than there are citizens) intersect with poetic reflections (Another mall shooting seems normalized in Columbus / Raining outside in Ohio / Raining inside folks panic / Inside hearing shots bust), all written in Chucks hand over vibrant, utterly original, neoexpressionist ink and watercolour art. This book is the followup to STEWdio the debut trilogy on Chuck Ds Enemy Books imprint, in which he invented a new medium the naphic grovel a bound journal brimming with his observations and reflections of current events in both art and prose. Summer of Hamn is the second release on the imprint. | Chuck D Summer of Hamn Hardback Book