A Survivor's Tale
By Nelson | march 25, 2009 | 7 comments

written, directed & photographed byNELSON GEORGESAMSON STYLESas The Survivoredited byNICOLE NELCH© 2009 URBAN ROMANCES[...]

CITY KID: BookPage Review
By Nelson | march 20, 2009 | Post a comment

“Living for the City: Nelson George grew up in very different surroundings, in the projects of Brownsville in Brooklyn, where he and his kid sister were raised in a single-parent household. City Kid: A Writer’s Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success traces George’s ascent to influential journalist, author (books on hip-hop, Motown and more) and filmmaker (he is the [...]

Nelson George: City Kid "Voices Inside My Head" (excerpt)
By Nelson | march 15, 2009 | 2 comments

City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul SuccessbyNELSON GEORGEVOICES INSIDE MY HEADWhen Baker made her New York concert debut at Avery Fisher Hall on the heels of Rapture, I was in the fourth row. That night she certainly fulfilled my need for the transcendental. Many in the crowd must have shared my eagerness to hear her, [...]

Nelson George: City Kid "Talking Head" (excerpt)
By Nelson | march 8, 2009 | Post a comment

City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul SuccessbyNELSON GEORGETALKING HEAD (excerpt)Looking back, I can see that my career, and that of my eighties peers, was aided to a great degree by a profound change in white America’s attitudes toward black creativity. Despite the outright hostility of the ruling GOP administration toward the poor and people of [...]

Nelson George: City Kid "Kings from Queens" (excerpt)
By Nelson | march 2, 2009 | Post a comment

City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul SuccessbyNELSON GEORGEKINGS FROM QUEENS (excerpt)The next big hip-hop event I attended was the Sugarhill Convention held at the Harlem Armory. It was 1981, and rap records were becoming the hottest items uptown. On the bill were Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, the Treacherous Three, and several other uptown [...]