Gareth Shute, the consummate skinny white boy, has won a Montana Book Award for his book on kiwi hiphop. Frankly I'm not that surprised, considering he was just up against books about boring ol' food and wine, but congratulations are in order, and FWIW the book is well worth taking a nosey at.

To my knowledge, Gareth basically spent a couple of years interviewing as many hiphop artists as he possibly could (I suspect it was just an excuse to get to meet some of his favourite artists, actually), so the book tells the story of hiphop music's evolution in NZ in hiphop's own words. It's pretty choice and has lots of photos.