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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
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4.14 avg rating — 5,623 ratings
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Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists
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4.41 avg rating — 790 ratings
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The Rose That Grew From Concrete
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4.41 avg rating — 13,288 ratings
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Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
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3.89 avg rating — 1,198 ratings
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Decoded
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3.86 avg rating — 8,661 ratings
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Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996
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4.53 avg rating — 964 ratings
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
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4.10 avg rating — 846 ratings
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The Way I Am
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4.34 avg rating — 2,677 ratings
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The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
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4.34 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
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The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
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4.22 avg rating — 1,391 ratings
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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
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4.05 avg rating — 376 ratings
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Pimp: The Story Of My Life
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14,763 ratings
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How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC
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3.99 avg rating — 784 ratings
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Have Gun Will Travel : Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records
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3.84 avg rating — 398 ratings
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Tyrell (Tyrell, #1)
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4.19 avg rating — 5,063 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.37 avg rating — 290,619 ratings
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
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4.05 avg rating — 445 ratings
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Rakim Told Me: Wax Facts Straight from the Original Artists--The '80s.
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4.17 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
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4.16 avg rating — 2,135 ratings
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Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 2: 1981-1983
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4.27 avg rating — 910 ratings
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Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
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3.80 avg rating — 637 ratings
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All Music Guide to Hip-Hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap and Hip-Hop
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4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Rap Attack, No. 3: African Rap to Global Hip Hop
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3.81 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
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4.05 avg rating — 613 ratings
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Tupac Shakur Legacy
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4.61 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood
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3.88 avg rating — 1,593 ratings
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Satan's Rapper
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
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4.45 avg rating — 6,584 ratings
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Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap
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4.16 avg rating — 300 ratings
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That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
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4.15 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler
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3.76 avg rating — 296 ratings
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Rollin' with Dre: The Unauthorized Account: An Insider's Tale of the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of West Coast Hip Hop
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3.03 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm
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3.77 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Angry Blonde: The Only Official Eminem Book of Uncensored Lyrics, Personal Commentary, and Rare Photos
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4.23 avg rating — 882 ratings
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The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
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4.38 avg rating — 4,710 ratings
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Gangsta Rap Coloring Book
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4.11 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
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4.27 avg rating — 651 ratings
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Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop
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3.84 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Wu-Tang Manual
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4.06 avg rating — 1,473 ratings
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Hip-Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 16)
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3.71 avg rating — 66 ratings
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Foundation: B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York
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4.31 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Illmatic
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3.59 avg rating — 354 ratings
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Pass the Mic: Beastie Boys 1991-1996
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
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3.40 avg rating — 192 ratings
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Westsiders
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3.87 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God
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3.78 avg rating — 430 ratings
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Now and Then...
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4.41 avg rating — 351 ratings
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Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop
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3.84 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of HipHop Photography
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4.24 avg rating — 38 ratings
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My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy
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4.18 avg rating — 1,369 ratings
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Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
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3.30 avg rating — 1,494 ratings
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Notorious C.O.P.: The Inside Story of the Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay Investigations from NYPD's First "Hip-Hop Cop"
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3.40 avg rating — 178 ratings
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, said the shotgun to the head.
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4.21 avg rating — 3,210 ratings
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Where You're At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet
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3.65 avg rating — 135 ratings
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6 'N The Morning: West Coast Hip-Hop Music 1987-1992 & the Transformation of Mainstream Culture
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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DJ Pascoe's Top 10 Tunes 2 - The best tracks from 101 of the hottest pop stars
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The History of Hip Hop
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3.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The History of Hip Hop: Volume One
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3.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Living Human Curiosity Sideshow
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4.79 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History
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3.84 avg rating — 165 ratings
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For The Love: The Art of the Hip-Hop Video
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 934 ratings
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Mobile DJing: A Practical Guide
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Rhythm and Blues
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3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The History of Hip Hop: Volume Two
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3.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Break On Through
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4.26 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument
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4.14 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Ruthless: A Memoir
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3.82 avg rating — 208 ratings
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E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX – A Candid Story of Struggle, Addiction, and Triumph
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4.13 avg rating — 1,204 ratings
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Root For The Villain: Rap, Bull$hit, and a Celebration of Failure
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3.99 avg rating — 229 ratings
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Got the Flow: The Hip-Hop Diary of a Young Rapper
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3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Straight Outta Compton
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Kendra
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Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic
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3.83 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast
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4.01 avg rating — 868 ratings
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We B*Girlz
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4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
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3.82 avg rating — 1,629 ratings
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The Fortress of Solitude
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3.84 avg rating — 24,159 ratings
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Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality
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3.79 avg rating — 364 ratings
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Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius
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4.06 avg rating — 1,221 ratings
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When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
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3.99 avg rating — 2,121 ratings
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The Spoken Word Revolution
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4.04 avg rating — 468 ratings
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Check it While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere
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4.07 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip Hop
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3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip-hop and the Globalisation of Black Popular Culture
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3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA
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3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office
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3.64 avg rating — 1,603 ratings
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Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement
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3.71 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
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3.93 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap
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3.75 avg rating — 40 ratings
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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
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3.40 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Tia's Diary Deeper Than Rap: Clarity, Truth, And Exposure
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Paul's Boutique
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4.09 avg rating — 1,325 ratings
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Pharrell: Places and Spaces I've Been
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4.16 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Back in the Days
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Yes Yes Y'all: The Experience Music Project Oral History Of Hip-hop's First Decade
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4.22 avg rating — 230 ratings
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And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
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4.03 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Hip Hop Years: A History of Rap
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3.93 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Vibe History of Hip Hop
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3.99 avg rating — 168 ratings
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