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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.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Hip Hop"

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
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Hip Hop Books

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
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
The Tao of Wu
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
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
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Lists

Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff ChangIt's Bigger Than Hip Hop by M.K. Asante Jr.Freestyle For Life by Latif MercadoSix-Figure Musician - How to Sell More Music, Get More People... by David HooperWidespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, Georgia by Gordon Lamb
MUSIC
115 books — 33 voters
Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff ChangEgo Trip's Book of Rap Lists by Sacha JenkinsThe Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac ShakurBomb the Suburbs by William Upski WimsattDecoded by Jay-Z
Hip Hop History & Currency
152 books — 72 voters

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
The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoCyrano de Bergerac by Edmond RostandA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. Butler
Books Referenced by Talib Kweli
9 books — 4 voters

Hair for Mama by Kelly TinkhamMythic Adventures by Ayn Cates SullivanThe Broke Diaries by Angela NisselThe Wake of the Wind by J. California CooperThe Matter Is Life by J. California Cooper
Highly Favored
28 books — 8 voters
Trick of the Spotlight by M.L. EastComeback by Lyn AshwoodRemember Tonight by Love JourneyLOVE LANGUAGE by Love JourneyI'll Be the One by Lyla Lee
KPOP JPOP CPOP Romance
37 books — 19 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Hip Hop”

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“ The only reason I am successful is because I have stayed true to myself. ”
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KRS-One
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