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
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
Commissary Kitchen by Albert  JohnsonStoned Beyond Belief by Action BronsonCookin' with Coolio by CoolioFrom Crook to Cook by Snoop DoggF*ck, That's Delicious by Action Bronson
Rapper written cookbooks
5 books — 1 voter

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 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


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