Pinballing around major cities of the world, this is a breakneck journey from the New York projects where it all began to the consumerist arcane of modern Tokyo, from the schizophrenic menace of Johannesburg to the favela drug factions of Rio, as Whitbread Award-winning writer Patrick Neate investigates the way hip hop - the most potent expression of black America - has been appropriated and subsumed by both international capital and local cultures to create a unique and fascinating form of globalism.

A stunning musical jouney, personal pilgrimage and cultural odyssey, 'Where You're At' is ultimately hip hop's story of how it conquered the globe and nobody noticed.