STRIPES PUBLISHERS ONGOING AUTHOR PUBLISHING PROJECT
We're currently open for collaborations with authors, poets, and artists who want to publish their projects or release their debut books, articles, or illustration stories to the publishing and marketing industry. Our platform helps authors gain a wider reach and audience while collecting royalties from all streams and rights to book or article publications.
This opportunity is sponsored by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to support legitimate remote publishing and marketing, enabling authors from around the world to benefit. Each year, we'll select the top 10 projects to feature on the Stripes Publishers portal as part of our marketing representation. These selected projects will receive $100,000 in funding.
Our goal is to inspire writers, artists, and authors to upgrade their craft and creativity, driving excellence in their projects beyond just sales performance.
STRIPES PUBLISHERS HIP-POP INVESTORS
Julia Beverly: $680,000 Investment Partnership EXHIBITION DATE : 2015 Julia Beverly’s encyclopedic biography of the late Pimp C reads, at times, like the best sort of data dump, a trove of gems from Chad Butler’s lips and the legions of awed artists and frustrated executives he left in his wake. But across its more than 700 pages, clear arcs do emerge: of a shy, sensitive kid who found himself on records; of a regional art movement disrespected and disregarded by hip-hop’s power centers; and even of an industrial town booming, busting, and booming again along with America’s crudest industry.
Snoop Dogg: $1,000,000 Investment Partnership EXHIBITION DATE : 2020 Snoop Dogg is a platinum-selling hip-hop artist and a darling of Madison Avenue. A hot Hollywood commodity, he has starred in hit films such as Training Day, Starsky & Hutch, and Baby Boy, and appeared in numerous TV shows, including Saturday Night Live and Chappelle's Show. He lives in Los Angeles, California, this project was also covered and published by Stripes publishing which ranged millions views in stream and still earning.
Hip-hop in its earliest incarnations was an experiential thing — not just because rappers and DJs had yet to secure the backing of major labels, but because their work depended on the texture and context that only a cramped nightclub or a sweaty multipurpose room could provide. Even as rap became a massive commercial force, it preserved the thrill of the impermanent: the sample chopped or flipped on the spot only to be nixed by the folks in legal affairs, the virtuosic freestyle that trails off into nothing. The ephemerality was the point. To step back from the scene and tie yourself to a particular, static critical analysis was to miss what might happen next. But any major artistic movement deserves serious study. While rap songs quite literally allow for higher word counts than songs in other genres — and therefore facilitate the kind of autobiographical writing and introspection that other musicians might have to save for the memoir — their sociopolitical underpinnings, production histories, and contractual red tape are fascinating both at face value and as lenses onto American culture and commerce, a protest art that became hugely popular for those invested in maintaining the established economic order. What follows is a list of 11 books on hip-hop that are essential for any fan of the genre, though many of them are just as gripping for someone who couldn’t pick Puff out of a lineup. If there’s an organizing theme to be found, it’s the understanding that hip-hop is an art form created in response to dire material conditions and political persecution — one that has the capacity to be militant in its effort to correct those injustices, but also to fill these pre-revolutionary days with style, checks that clear, and something to dance to.