Have you heard of people who could rap about a book?
A second appearance on this blog for the students of Chicago's Carver High School. Sharing their debut 12" featuring the Class of 1983 was half the reason I initially set this thing up, so I highly recommend checking it out if you missed it. By 1985, Carver's music teacher, John Harris, had picked up a Linn drum and was ready to drop another of Chicago's earliest hip-hop records with a new crew of Carver High MCs... Carver High – Boogie With A Book (Let's Read!) Challenger Records – CH7300 Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, US, 1985 Info I can't tell you much more about Chicago's far South side rap pioneers than what I shared in that previous post. Two and a half years later and we get to see that these high school students (along with their music teacher and his Motherfox bandmates) were tracking some of the changes in hip-hop styles that were bubbling up. Again: this was 1985 . The Midwest wasn't exactly overflowing with homegrown hip-hop records yet... But