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Peter Relic is a journalist who has worked on staff and written for the most prominent hip-hop publications of the past 25 years, including VIBE, XXL, Rap Pages, and the Beastie Boys' highly influential zine Grand Royal. As associate editor at VIBE, he wrote the magazine's first stories on Eminem and Serena Williams, and his XXL magazine story on the Geto Boys was anthologized in Best American Music Writing, edited by Mary Gaitskill. His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, Architectural Digest, and The Plain Dealer. He lives in Georgia, where he is senior writer, public relations, at Savannah College of Art and Design.
Praise for Bust a Move “This is a rare book about creating art, and creating a scene that is also art. Peter Relic conveys how alive you can feel up close to the best stuff and how baffled you can feel when close to the artist who made it. Bust a Move is a deeply informed book that wears its research lightly, puts you at the center of an urgent and frivolous time, and makes you wish it were here again.” —RJ Smith, author of Chuck Berry: An American Life “Bust a Move tells the extraordinary story of two young music producers who unleashed new sounds upon the world with their record label Delicious Vinyl, ensuring LA’s hip-hop scene would match, or surpass, the scene in New York City, as master storyteller Peter Relic zooms smoothly from the big social picture to the most intimate, personal details that offer a front-row seat of a scene as it simmered, boiled, and exploded. Relic’s account of visiting the reclusive Matt Dike at his home is itself worth the price of the book—a killer read.” —James Lough, author of This Ain’t No Holiday Inn: Down and Out at the Chelsea Hotel 1980–1995 “Part mystery, part oral history, Bust a Move exposes a hidden hub in the hip-hop network and the characters it connected on the cusp of the 1990s. This is the secret story of music obsessive Matt Dike and a Who’s Who of those who knew him, as well as a fresh look at how LA Loc’ed and loped onto the map of rap—Relic’s writing is as delicious as the vinyl.” —Roy Christopher, author of Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future
