Hip Hop

Hip hop is a broad conglomerate of artistic forms that originated within a marginalized subculture in the South Bronx and Harlem in New York City among black and Latino youth during the 1970s.

The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
One Day It'll All Make Sense
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent)
The Psychological Covert War on Hip Hop: The Illuminati's takeover of Hip Hop
Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap
The Tanning of America: How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy
Game Over: My Love for Hip Hop
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
Donuts
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 2: 1981-1983
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
Decoded
The Tao of Wu
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius
The Commitments by Roddy DoyleChart Throb by Ben EltonSoul Music by Terry PratchettRagtime by E.L. DoctorowThe Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Tin Pan Alley
41 books — 14 voters
Talking Back by bell hooksBuck by M.K. AsanteIt's Bigger Than Hip Hop by M.K. Asante Jr.The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoNo Disrespect by Sister Souljah
#KweliClub
49 books — 6 voters

Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff ChangEnter the 36 Chapters by Kevin McDormandThe Tao of Wu by The RZACan't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff ChangBomb the Suburbs by William Upski Wimsatt
My Favorite Hip-Hop Books
17 books — 2 voters

A Company of Swans by Eva IbbotsonThe Melting Season by Celeste ConwayRoom 555 by Cristy WatsonBunheads by Sophie FlackLeap by Jodi Lundgren
SYTYCD
16 books — 11 voters
Mr. Yay by Emily  JaneGot the Flow by Carlos SalinasThe History of Hip Hop by Eric ReeseCan't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff ChangGangsta Rap by Benjamin Zephaniah
Books about rap and hip-hop
8 books — 10 voters


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bell hooks
While the patriarchal boys in hip-hop crew may talk about keeping it real, there has been no musical culture with black men at the forefront of its creation that has been steeped in the politics of fantasy and denial as the more popular strands of hip-hop.
bell hooks, We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

Nikesh Shukla
We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball. ...more
Nikesh Shukla, Coconut Unlimited

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