The Come UpThe Come Up is Abrams at his sharpest, at his most observant, at his most insightful. Shea Serrano, bestselling author of Hip Hop (And Other Things) The music that would come to be known as hip hop was born at a party in the Bronx in the summer of 1973. Now, fifty years later, it's the most popular music genre in America. Just as jazz did in the first half of the twentieth century, hip hop and its groundbreaking DJs and artistsnearly all of them