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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,721 ratings — published 2005
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.54 — 5,201 ratings — published 2022
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,787 ratings — published 2015
Decoded (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,729 ratings — published 2009
The Tao of Wu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,746 ratings — published 2009
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,328 ratings — published 2013
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.26 — 668 ratings — published 2007
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.80 — 641 ratings — published 2008
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.05 — 616 ratings — published 2008
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,221 ratings — published 2010
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
by (shelved 22 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.45 — 6,821 ratings — published 2019
The Rose That Grew From Concrete (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.41 — 13,676 ratings — published 1999
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.41 — 790 ratings — published 1999
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981 (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,157 ratings — published 2013
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,277 ratings — published 2019
Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,034 ratings — published 2016
Hip Hop America (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.85 — 702 ratings — published 1998
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.10 — 865 ratings — published 1994
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,406 ratings — published 2017
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,417 ratings — published 2011
How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.99 — 792 ratings — published 2009
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.83 — 324 ratings — published 2008
From Staircase to Stage: The Story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.25 — 971 ratings — published 2021
The Wu-Tang Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,554 ratings — published 2004
Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.84 — 301 ratings — published 2011
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.10 — 190 ratings — published 2007
The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.83 — 299 ratings — published 2002
The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.22 — 757 ratings — published
Holler If You Hear Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,562 ratings — published 2001
Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.53 — 270 ratings — published
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.04 — 190 ratings — published 2004
That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.15 — 172 ratings — published 2003
The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,208 ratings — published 2024
Beastie Boys Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.53 — 14,669 ratings — published 2018
The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.14 — 232 ratings — published 2009
Hip-Hop Is History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,498 ratings — published 2024
Jay-Z: Made in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,954 ratings — published 2019
God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.87 — 505 ratings — published 2019
Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.04 — 661 ratings — published 2021
Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,263 ratings — published
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 4: 1984-1985 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.19 — 451 ratings — published 2016
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 3: 1983-1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.29 — 616 ratings — published 2015
Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.79 — 373 ratings — published 1997
Yes Yes Y'all: The Experience Music Project Oral History Of Hip-hop's First Decade (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.21 — 231 ratings — published 2002
One Day It'll All Make Sense (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,286 ratings — published 2011
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,139 ratings — published 1999
It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,301 ratings — published 2022
She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.92 — 725 ratings — published
The Way I Am (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,728 ratings — published 2008
The Anthology of Rap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.19 — 267 ratings — published 2010
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