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  • This Bright Future

    A Memoir

    by Bobby Hall ...
    The instant New York Times bestseller and “inspiring and vulnerable” (Trevor Noah) memoir from Bobby Hall, the multiplatinum recording artist known as Logic and the #1 bestselling author of Supermarket.This Bright Future is a raw and unfiltered journey into the life and mind of Bobby Hall, who emerged from the wreckage of a horrifically abusive childhood to become an era-defining artist of our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Not Afraid

    The Evolution of Eminem

    by Anthony Bozza ...
    THE SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WHATEVER YOU SAY I AM, CHRONICLING THE PAST TWENTY YEARS OF RAPPER EMINEM'S LIFE, BASED ON EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE ARTIST, HIS FRIENDS, AND ASSOCIATES"A passionate look at the Detroit rapper's music . . . an expert and thoughtful assessment." - BooklistIn 1999, a former dishwasher from Detroit named Marshall Bruce Mathers III became the most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Hip Hop World

    A Groundwork Guide

    Series Book 10 - Groundwork Guides
    "[The Groundwork Guides] are excellent books, mandatory for school libraries and the increasing body of young people prepared to take ownership of the situations and problems previous generations have left them." -- Globe and MailHip hop is arguably the predominant global youth subculture of this generation. In this book Dalton Higgins takes vivid snapshots of the hip hop scenes in Europe, North ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Chronicling Stankonia

    The Rise of the Hip-Hop South

    This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a post–civil rights generation. For scholar and critic Regina N. Bradley, Outkast's work is the touchstone, a blend of funk, gospel, and hip-hop developed in conjunction with the work of other culture creators—including T.I., Kiese Laymon, and Jesmyn ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • FBI War on Tupac Shakur, The

    The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s

    by John Potash ...
    Since 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 forward his own theories of the events leading up to and following the murder in this meticulously researched and exhaustive account of the story. Never before has there been such a detailed and shocking ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Other People's Property

    A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America

    by Jason Tanz ...
    Over the last quarter-century hip-hop has grown from an esoteric form of African-American expression to become the dominant form of American popular culture. Today, Snoop Dogg shills for Chrysler and white kids wear Fubu, the black-owned label whose name stands for "For Us, By Us." This is not the first time that black music has been appreciated, adopted, and adapted by white audiences-think jazz, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Book of Rhymes

    The Poetics of Hip Hop

    by Adam Bradley ...
    If 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 developments in verse today. The media uproar in response to its controversial lyrical content has obscured hip hop's revolution of poetic craft and experience: Only in rap music can the beat of a song ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Walk This Way

    Run-DMC, Aerosmith, and the Song that Changed American Music Forever

    by Geoff Edgers ...
    Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind “Walk This Way,” Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music.The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair metal bands were selling out stadiums, while clubs and house parties in New York City had spawned a new genre of music. At the time, though, hip hop's ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Wu-Tang Manual

    The 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, The Wu-Tang Manual unravels the intricate web of personalities (and alter egos), warrior codes, numerological systems, and Eastern spiritual ethics that define the Wu-Tang dynasty. Packed with ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Las figuras retóricas en el rap español del S.XXI

    El rap es la música y el contexto cultural de una generación. Joven, innovadora y con una gran carga estética, se presenta al gran público como una música agresiva y carente de valor, nada más lejos de la realidad. Algunos académicos que se acercan temerosos a estudiar este género, descubren en él una amalgama de expresiones artísticas tan sorprendentes como delicadas y cultas, pensando en la ... Read more

    $6.65 USD

  • Hip-Hop Japan

    Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization

    by Ian Condry ...
    In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan’s vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how a music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs and recording studios. Illuminating different aspects of Japanese hip-hop, Condry chronicles how self-described “yellow B-Boys” express their devotion to “black culture,” how they combine the figure of ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Hip Hoptionary TM

    The Dictionary of Hip Hop Terminology

    The bumpin’ book for hip-hop disciples (a.k.a. fiends), songwriters, all other writers, pop culture fans, linguists, and parents who are just trying to figure out what their kids are saying.The inventive sounds of hip-hop (which became America’s number two music genre in 2001, outselling country) have echoed far from their Bronx beginnings of twenty years ago. Making its way from Compton sidewalks ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Adversity for Sale

    Ya Gotta Believe

    by Jeezy ...
    NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLERTo Jeezy’s legion of fans, his name is synonymous with hustle, grit, and the integrity to go out there and achieve your dreams. In his first book, Adversity for Sale: Ya Gotta Believe, Jeezy shares never heard stories of what it took for him to beat the odds and get out of the streets, his mindset he carefully honed to get an edge, and the lessons ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Regarding Lecrae, Church Clothes, and Tupac/2pac

    by Richie Cooley ...
    This short essay contrasts Tupac Shakur and Lecrae and discusses the struggles of the latter. ... Read more

    Free

  • Dead Precedents

    How Hip-Hop Defines the Future

    The story of how hip-hop created, and came to dominate, the twenty-first century.In Dead Precedents, Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip-hop invented the twenty-first century.Emerging alongside cyberpunk in the 1980s, the hallmarks of hip-hop - allusion, self-reference, the use of new technologies, sampling, the cutting and splicing of language and sound - would come to define the culture ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • In Search of Soul

    Hip-Hop, Literature, and Religion

    In Search of Soul explores the meaning of “soul” in sacred and profane incarnations, from its biblical origins to its central place in the rich traditions of black and Latin history. Surveying the work of writers, artists, poets, musicians, philosophers and theologians, Alejandro Nava shows how their understandings of the “soul” revolve around narratives of justice, liberation, and spiritual ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Split Decision

    Life Stories

    Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune—while a handful of bad choices sent his former crime partner down an incredibly different path.Ice-T rose to fame in the late 1980s, earning acclaim for his music before going on to enthrall television audiences as Odafin “Fin” Tutuola in Law & Order: ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists

    Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists is more popular than racism!Hip hop is huge, and it's time someone wrote it all down. And got it all right. With over 25 aggregate years of interviews, and virtually every hip hop single, remix and album ever recorded at their disposal, the highly respected Ego Trip staff are the ones to do it. The Book of Rap Lists runs the gamut of hip hop information. This is an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Infinite Crab Meats

    An all you can eat buffet of probing, insightful hip-hop journalism, with thoughts on Rick Ross, Kreayshawn, Das Racist, Odd future, El-P, Killer Mike, Chief Keef, Rap Genius and music publications Pitchfork, SPIN and XXL. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From the Streets of Shaolin

    The Wu-Tang Saga

    This definitive biography of rap supergroup, Wu-Tang Clan, features decades of unpublished interviews and unparalleled access to members of the group and their associates.This is the definitive biography of rap supergroup and cultural icons, Wu-Tang Clan (WTC). Heralded as one of the most influential groups in modern music—hip hop or otherwise—WTC created a rap dynasty on the strength of seven ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Dirty Version

    On Stage, in the Studio, and in the Streets with Ol' Dirty Bastard

    On the tenth anniversary of his death, The Dirty Version is the first biography of hip hop superstar and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, to be written by someone from his inner circle: his right-hand man and best friend, Buddha Monk.Ol’ Dirty Bastard rocketed to fame with the Wu-Tang Clan, the raucous and renegade group that altered the world of hip hop forever. ODB was one ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pimps Up, Ho's Down

    Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women

    2007 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Emily Toth AwardPimps Up, Ho’s Down pulls at the threads of the intricately knotted issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. What unravels for Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is a new, and problematic, politics of gender. In this fascinating and forceful book, Sharpley-Whiting, a feminist writer who is a member of the hip hop ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Gospel of Hip Hop

    The First Instrument

    by KRS-One ...
    The 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-guide manual for members of Hip Hop Kulture that combines classic philosophy with faith and practical knowledge for a fascinating, in-depth exploration of Hip Hop as a life path. Known as "The Teacha," ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Grime Kids

    NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA

    by DJ Target ...
    An explosive insider account of grime, from subculture to international phenomenon.*****A group of kids in the 2000s had a dream to make their voice heard - and this book documents their seminal impact on today's pop culture.DJ Target grew up in Bow under the shadow of Canary Wharf, with money looming close on the skyline. The 'Godfather of Grime' Wiley and Dizzee Rascal first met each other in ... Read more

    $3.99 USD $0.99 USD