The illustrated oral history of the greatest hip-hop hit-making machine in history.

In the early ‘80s, the music industry wrote off hip-hop as a passing fad. Few could or would have predicted that the improvised raps and raw beats busting out

Collects Marvel's Voices: Legacy (2021) #1, Black Panther (2016) #1, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur (2015) #1, Black History Month variants; material from Marvel'

"It's where Walt Whitman meets Michael Jackson. It's where Emily Dickinson meets Mary J. Blige. It's Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam, the lyrical, smart, hilario

Presents the life and career of Russell Simmons, who helped found the rap group Run-D.M.C. and the pioneering label "Def Jam Recordings."