Marcus ReevesSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Marcus Reeves has been writing about youth culture, music, film and their politics for over 20 years. His work has appeared in such publications as The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vibe, The Source, The Utne Reader, The Crisis and The Amsterdam News.

Reeves is the author of the critically hailed book “Somebody Scream! Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), which was praised by the New York Times as “a sweeping, painstakingly thorough… history of hip-hop.” Scream has been required reading for African American and Pop Culture study courses at colleges and universities across the country, including CUNY’s Brooklyn College, Prairie View A&M University, University of Madison-Wisconsin, University of North Texas and University of Arkansas. “Somebody Scream!” was also nominated for the Zora Neale Hurston Book Award.

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