Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop
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What’s Good: Notes on Rap and Language
$22.95 Read moreA NEW YORKER & GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
A love letter to the verbal artistry of hip-hop, What’s Good is a work of passionate lyrical analysis
“What’s Good is, among a great many other things
- Author: Levin Becker, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 0872868761
- Language: English
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Look at Me!: The Xxxtentacion Story
$21.99 Add to cartA compelling biography of SoundCloud sensation and rising star XXXTENTACION — from his candid songwriting and connection with fans to his tragic death.
At the age of twenty, rapper Jahseh Dwayne Onfr- Author: Reiss, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0306845423
- Language: English
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Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History
$29.99 Add to cartA one-of-a kind survey of rap and hip hop history from 1973 to today by Chuck D, arguably the most influential rapper in the world.
In the more than 40 years since the days of DJ Kool Herc and “Rappe- Author: D, Chuck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 10 2017
- ISBN10: 0316430978
- Language: English
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Beastie Boys
$55.00 Read moreThe first book of photography to be published by the Academy Award-winning film director and photographer Spike Jonze. Will appeal to every fan of Beastie Boys and golden-era hip hop, as well as photo… [more below]
- Author: Jonze, Spike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0847868389
- Language: English
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Changes: An Oral History of Tupac Shakur
$17.99 Add to cartA New Yorker writer’s intimate, revealing account of Tupac Shakur’s life and legacy, timed to the fiftieth anniversary of his birth and twenty-fifth anniversary of his death.
In the summer of 2020, Tu- Author: Pearce, Sheldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1982170476
- Language: English
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God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop
$17.99 Add to cartAn NPR Best Book of the Year
“Without God Save the Queens, it is possible that the contributions of dozens of important female hip-hop artists who have sold tens of millions of albums, starred in monum
- Author: Iandoli, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 10, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062878514
- Language: English
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The Gospel of Hip Hop: First Instrument
$29.95 Add to cartThe Gospel of Hip Hop: First Instrument, the first book from the I Am Hip Hop, is the philosophical masterwork of KRS ONE. Set in the format of the Christian Bible, this 800-plus-page opus is a life-g… [more below]
- Author: Krs-One
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1576874974
- Language: English
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Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
$19.99 Add to cartAn “impassioned tribute” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the most influential music culture today, Atlanta rap–a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from ac… [more below]
- Author: Coscarelli, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1982107898
- Language: English
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Hip-Hop (and Other Things)
$27.00 Add to cartHIP-HOP (AND OTHER THINGS) is about, as it were, rap, but also some other things. It’s a smart, fun, funny, insightful book that spends the entirety of its time celebrating what has become the most do… [more below]
- Author: Serrano, Shea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1538730227
- Language: English
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The Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique
$14.95 Add to cartDerided as one-hit wonders, estranged from their original producer and record label, and in self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, the Beastie Boys were written off by most observers before even beginning… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #30
- Author: Leroy, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0826417418
- Language: English
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Hip-Hop Legends Alphabet
$19.95 Add to cartFrom Biggie to Pac, Lil’ Kim to Lauryn Hill, Hip-Hop Legends Alphabet features an A-Z of the OG MCs, DJs, and lyrical masterminds behind the freshest flows and dopest beats in music history. Written a
- Author: Feiner, Beck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: October 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 0645200131
- Language: English
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The Book of Mac: Remembering Mac Miller
$28.00 Add to cartINSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER!
An album-by-album celebration of the life and music of Mac Miller through oral histories, intimate reflections, and critical examinations of his enduring work. “One of my- Author: Chesman, Donna-Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26, 2021
- ISBN10: 1637580681
- Language: English
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DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution
$29.95 Add to cartDJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed.
- Series: American Music
- Author: Walker, Lance Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1477325131
- Language: English
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The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop
$24.99 Read moreAn illustrated highlight reel of more than 100 women in rap who have helped shape the genre and eschewed gender norms in the process, The Motherlode “shines a bright light on a history of overlooked f
- Author: Hope, Clover
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 1419742965
- Language: English
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Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop
$27.99 Add to cartIf you want to understand the Black experience in the US, you have to understand hip-hop.
James Baldwin, in his famous talk “”The Struggle for the Artist’s Integrity,”” suggests that “”the poets (by w
- Author: Duncan, Lenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1506479022
- Language: English
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The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop
$35.00 Read moreThe essential oral history of hip-hop, from its origins on the playgrounds of the Bronx to its reign as the most powerful force in pop culture–from the award-winning journalist behind All the Pieces
- Author: Abrams, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1984825135
- Language: English
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Do Remember!: The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes
$45.00 Add to cartDo Remember! The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes is the first comprehensive deep-dive oral and visual history of the golden era of hip-hop mixtape culture in New York City.
From street corners to c- Author: Auerbach, Evan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0847872246
- Language: English
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Hip Hop Family Tree: The Omnibus
$75.00 Add to cartEd Piskor’s Hip Hop Family Tree has been a global phenomenon and perennial bestseller since the first (of four) volumes was published in 2013, spawning multiple printings, fourteen comic books, and th
- Series: Hip Hop Family Tree
- Author: Piskor, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 1683968891
- Language: English
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First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game
$28.00 Add to cartThis enlightening book reframes the history of hip-hop–and this time, women are given credit for all their trailblazing achievements that have left an undeniable impact on music.
FIRST THINGS FIRST- Author: Simmons, Nadirah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1538740745
- Language: English
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Ode to Hip-Hop: 50 Albums That Define 50 Years of Trailblazing Music
$28.00 Add to cartCelebrate the music that has shaped the culture and given us some of the greatest hits of all time with this vibrantly illustrated anthology, featuring 50 of the most lauded, controversial, and iconic… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, Kiana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 0762482974
- Language: English
