Rap & Hip Hop
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All about Yvie: Into the Oddity
$27.95 Add to cartThe world’s oddest drag artist
This book is an intimate and in-depth look into the life of Yvie Oddly, winner of season eleven of RuPaul’s Drag Race. It begins with their childhood and then tells of … [more below]- Author: Oddly, Yvie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9798886451993
- Language: English
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It Was You All Along
$24.99 Add to cartThe self-made musical artist follows his bestseller IT’S ALL IN YOUR HEAD with this second inspirational book for everyone who’s looking for answers in all the wrong places. It’s a book about self-emp
- Author: Russ
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0063357887
- Language: English
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Rise of a Killah
$35.00 Add to cartThe story of the celebrated rapper and the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, told by one of its founding members
Dennis Coles–aka Ghostface Killah–is a co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a legendary hip hop group w- Author: Killah, Ghostface
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1250274273
- Language: English
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Women Behind The Mic: Curators of The Culture Volume Two “The Hip-Hop Edition”
$16.99 Add to cartWOMEN BEHIND THE MIC:
Curators of The Culture
Volume Two “The Hip-Hop Edition”
Volume Two “The Hip-Hop Edition” from the WOMEN BEHIND THE MIC series contains the stories of 21 veteran executives who
- Author: Brookshire, Lajoyce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1584410086
- Language: English
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Hip-Hop Is History
$30.00 Add to cartThis is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop.
When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn’t expected to become the c- Author: Questlove
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614075
- Language: English
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Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion
$19.99 Add to cartA Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2024
This “first comprehensive anthology of the marriage between hip-hop and luxury fashion” (The Cut) draws on exclusive interviews to tell the story of the hip-hop art- Author: Krishnamurthy, Sowmya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1982176334
- Language: English
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I Know Nigo(r)
$60.00 Read moreThis volume documents the collaborations between famed fashion designer Nigo(R) and many recording artists (including Pharrell, A$AP Rocky, and Tyler, the Creator), presenting a trove of limited-editi… [more below]
- Author: Nigo(r)
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0847899187
- Language: English
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The Birth of Seattle Rap
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the Seattle streets to studio beats.
In the early 1980s, a subterranean shift in Seattle’s music scene began. Disco’s reign over parties and dance clubs faded, and hip-hop became the new attractio
- Series: Narrative
- Author: 132, Novocaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158240
- Language: English
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Harlem World: How Hip Hop’s Super Showdown Changed Music Forever
$26.95 Read moreA thrilling narrative history of how one rap battle in New York transformed American culture forever.
July 3, 1981, was a pivotal night for the future of America’s newest art form: hip hop. In New York
- Author: Mael, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 142144688X
- Language: English
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Independent as F***: Underground Hip-Hop from 1995-2005
$20.00 Add to cartFor a glorious ten-year period from 1995 to 2005, hip-hop music received a much-needed shot in the arm from a generation of determined and wildly creative rappers and producers. They rallied against t… [more below]
- Author: Pedroche, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1913231879
- Language: English
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Honest, Becoming Me: Hip-Hop Artist Andre Saunders’ Personal Journey
$14.99 Add to cartExperience a hip-hop artist’s journey to authenticity through creativity in this can’t-miss memoirs for writers, musicians, and other creatives.
In Honest, Becoming Me, hip-hop artist and poet Andre Sa
- Author: Vogel, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 58
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822979529
- Language: English
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Sonita: My Fight Against Tyranny and My Escape to Freedom
$29.99 Add to cartNearly 15 million girls, including many in the U.S., are forced into marriage each year. Each of these girls has a price tag—and a story. Sonita Alizada was almost sold twice. Her price tag was $9,00
- Author: Alizada, Sonita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 006343900X
- Language: English
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City Kid: A Writer’s Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success
$24.00 Add to cart“City Kid is perhaps one of the seven greatest books ever written. It has the realness of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the warmth of The Color Purple, and the page count of Tuesdays with Morrie. It… [more below]
- Author: George, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0452296048
- Language: English
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No Sense in Wishing: Essays
$29.99 Add to cart“Among the most profound and dazzling debuts I’ve ever read.” –Kiese Laymon, award-winning author of Heavy: An American Memoir
An essay collection from culture critic Lawrence Burney that is a person- Author: Burney, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1668051850
- Language: English
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Hip-Hop Is History
$20.00 Add to cartThis is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century of hip-hop.
When hip-hop first emerged in the 1970s, it wasn’t expected to become the c- Author: Questlove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1250390540
- Language: English
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Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur
$32.00 Add to cartFrom Pitchfork and Guardian contributor Dean Van Nguyen comes a revelatory history of Tupac beyond his musical legend, as a radical son of the Black Panther Party whose political legacy still resonate… [more below]
- Author: Van Nguyen, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0385550022
- Language: English
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On Ruben Slikk: A Manifesto on the Purpose of Art and the Value of Transgression
$15.00 Add to cartOn Ruben Slikk: An Manifesto on the Purpose of Art and the Value of Transgression is a philosophical and critical inquiry into the modern musical landscape, using the obscure, prolific, transgressive
- Author: True, Caleb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1088156738
- Language: English
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Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
$29.99 Read moreA modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap–a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscar… [more below]
- Author: Coscarelli, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 198210788X
- Language: English
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Kill Your Masters: Run the Jewels and the World That Made Them
$28.95 Add to cartAll the unwritten rules of rap say it doesn’t happen like this. Yet Killer Mike, a Black man from Atlanta, Georgia, and El-P, a white man from Brooklyn, New York, have transformed what should have bee
- Series: Music of the American South
- Author: Doelen, Jaap Van Der
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367826
- Language: English
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Floss
$50.00 Add to cartFLOSS comprises a collection of monographs showcasing retrospective photographs by Roger Erickson, highlighting Hip Hop and Rock’n Roll music from the 1990s.
These uniquely stylized images explore the- Author: Erickson, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1961856085
- Language: English
