Genres & Styles - Rap & Hip Hop
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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest
$16.95 Add to cartA New York Times Best Seller
2019 National Book Award Longlist, Nonfiction
2019 Kirkus Book Prize Finalist, Nonfiction
A February IndieNext Pick
Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, N- Series: American Music
- Author: Abdurraqib, Hanif
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1477316485
- Language: English
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LL Cool J Presents the Streets Win: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness
$55.00 Add to cartCo-authored by Hip-Hop legend LL COOL J, acclaimed journalist Vikki Tobak and Rock The Bells’ editorial director Alec Banks, this momentous volume celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the influentia… [more below]
- Author: LL Cool J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0847873161
- Language: English
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Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
$22.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY
“This book is a must for everyone interested in illuminating the idea of unexplainable genius.” –QUESTLOVE
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Equal p- Author: Charnas, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1250862973
- Language: English
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Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop
$55.00 Read moreThe work of pioneering photographer Joe Conzo forms the backbone of this crucial documentary journey through Hip Hop’s formative years. Curator and writer Johan Kugelberg builds on this foundation by … [more below]
- Author: Conzo, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 997448245
- Language: English
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The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s
$18.95 Add to cartSince the first day after the tragedy was announced, controversy has surrounded the death of rap and cultural icon Tupac Shakur. In this work, preeminent researcher on the topic, John Potash, puts for… [more below]
- Series: Real World
- Author: Potash, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1621064557
- Language: English
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Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop
$40.00 Add to cartONE OF AMAZON’S BEST ART & PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS 0F 2018
AN NPR AND PITCHFORK BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 PICK
ONE OF TIME‘S 25 BEST PHOTOBOOKS OF 2018
NEW YORK TIMES, ASSOCIATED PRESS, WALLSTREET JOURNAL, ROLLI… [more below]- Author: Tobak, Vikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0525573887
- Language: English
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The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop
$20.00 Add to cartThe 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 … [more below]
- Author: Abrams, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1984825151
- Language: English
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Jay-Z: Made in America
$27.00 Read moreNOW A NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, AND PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY BESTSELLER
“Dyson writes with the affection of a fan but the rigor of an academic. … Using extensive passages from Jay-Z’s lyrics, ‘Made in Ame- Author: Dyson, Michael Eric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1250230969
- Language: English
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Hip Hop Raised Me
$45.00 Add to cartIn 2008, with help from Jay-Z and Puff, Barack Obama got the hip hop vote, and became the first African American to be elected president. For a brief moment, the “Audacity of Hope” seemed attainable.
- Author: Semtex, Dj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0500293953
- Language: English
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Holler if You Hear Me
$30.07 Add to cartAcclaimed for his writings on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as his passionate defense of black youth culture, Michael Eric Dyson has emerged as the leading African American intellectu
- Author: Dyson, Michael Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05, 2006
- ISBN10: 0465017282
- Language: English
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That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
$119.93 Read moreThis newly expanded and revised second edition of That’s the Joint! brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume. Presented thematically, the selec
- Author: Forman, Murray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: August 02 2011
- ISBN10: 0415873266
- Language: English
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Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic
$19.99 Add to cartAt the age of nineteen, Nasir “Nas” Jones began recording tracks for his debut album — and changed the music world forever. Released in 1994, Illmatic was hailed as an instant masterpiece and has pro
- Author: Dyson, Michael Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 01, 2009
- ISBN10: 0465002110
- Language: English
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The Wu-Tang Manual
$26.00 Add to cartThe Wu-Tang Manual is The RZA’s first written introduction to the philosophy and history of Hip-Hop’s original Dynasty, the Wu-Tang Clan.
Written in a style that is at once personal and philosophical,
- Author: The Rza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1594480184
- Language: English
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The Tao of Wu
$18.00 Add to cartFrom the founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, an inspirational book for the hip-hop fan.
The RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, imparts the lessons he’s learned on his journey from the Staten Island projects t- Author: The Rza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 02, 2010
- ISBN10: 1594484856
- Language: English
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Dirty South: Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop
$19.99 Read moreRap music from New York and Los Angeles once ruled the charts, but nowadays the southern sound thoroughly dominates the radio, Billboard, and MTV. Coastal artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and Ice-T cal
- Author: Westhoff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 01, 2011
- ISBN10: 1569766061
- Language: English
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Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
$23.00 Add to cartCan’t Stop Won’t Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.
Forged in the fires o- Author: Chang, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0312425791
- Language: English
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Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
$19.99 Add to cartIf asked to list the greatest innovators of modern American poetry, few of us would think to include Jay-Z or Eminem in their number. And yet hip hop is the source of some of the most exciting develop… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 27 2017
- ISBN10: 0465094406
- Language: English
