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Hip Hop Books
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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 — 5,635 ratings — published 2005
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 — 4,722 ratings — published 2015
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.55 — 4,839 ratings — published 2022
Decoded (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.86 — 8,675 ratings — published 2009
The Tao of Wu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,601 ratings — published 2009
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,264 ratings — published 2013
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.27 — 655 ratings — published 2007
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.80 — 637 ratings — published 2008
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.05 — 613 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 — 1,211 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 4.46 — 6,625 ratings — published 2019
The Rose That Grew From Concrete (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.41 — 13,375 ratings — published 1999
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.41 — 789 ratings — published 1999
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.10 — 846 ratings — published 1994
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 — 1,983 ratings — published 2016
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,135 ratings — published 2013
Hip Hop America (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.84 — 703 ratings — published 1998
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,233 ratings — published 2019
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.09 — 11,942 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 — 1,380 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 — 786 ratings — published 2009
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.83 — 322 ratings — published 2008
Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.84 — 295 ratings — published 2011
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 — 925 ratings — published 2021
The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.22 — 719 ratings — published
The Wu-Tang Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,477 ratings — published 2004
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.11 — 188 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 — 300 ratings — published 2002
Tupac Shakur : Holler If You Hear Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,551 ratings — published 2001
Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.53 — 262 ratings — published
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.05 — 184 ratings — published 2004
That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.15 — 170 ratings — published 2003
Beastie Boys Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.53 — 14,241 ratings — published 2018
The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.15 — 230 ratings — published 2009
The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.00 — 953 ratings — published 2024
Jay-Z: Made in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,925 ratings — published 2019
Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.05 — 642 ratings — published 2021
Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,238 ratings — published
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 4: 1984-1985 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.20 — 446 ratings — published 2016
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 3: 1983-1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.30 — 609 ratings — published 2015
Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.79 — 365 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 4.22 — 230 ratings — published 2002
One Day It'll All Make Sense (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,275 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 — 2,121 ratings — published 1999
God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop (ebook)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.89 — 492 ratings — published 2019
She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.92 — 713 ratings — published
The Way I Am (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,690 ratings — published 2008
The Anthology of Rap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.19 — 265 ratings — published 2010
Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.27 — 909 ratings — published 2014
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.40 — 192 ratings — published 2005
“The truth is the truth and the real is the real, and you have the right to say exactly how you feel.”
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“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.”
― We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
― We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity
