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Check the Technique
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies is a book by music journalist Brian Coleman that covers the making of 36 classic hip hop albums, based on interviews with the artists who created them, also providing a track-by-track breakdown for each album entirely in the words of the artists.[1][2] It was published by Villard/Random House in 2007. It is an expanded and updated version of the book Rakim Told Me,[3] also by Brian Coleman, and it features a foreword by Questlove of the Roots.[2] ReceptionThe book received positive reviews from numerous press outlets,[4] such as Entertainment Weekly,[5] AllHipHop,[6] ALARM Magazine,[7] and The Onion/The A.V. Club.[3] Some criticisms of the book are that it is missing certain classic albums, is missing some tracks from some albums, that it has very few female artists covered,[7] and "little attention is given to the outlining societal conditions."[8] Brian Coleman explained in interviews that he did not intentionally leave any album out of the book, but there were difficulties in arranging interviews with certain artists.[9][10] He also commented he wanted to focus on hip hop artists and what they had to say, rather than on academic subjects surrounding hip hop: "I don't really wanna read what critics have to say about the stuff. I wanna read what the artist has to say."[10] He added,
This approach has been praised by critics—URB commented on his "mercifully non-academic approach",[12] and ALARM Magazine said,
SequelCheck the Technique Vol. 2: More Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies was published in 2014. References
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