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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,737 ratings — published 2005
How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.00 — 797 ratings — published 2009
The Tao of Wu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,784 ratings — published 2009
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,337 ratings — published 2013
The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.15 — 234 ratings — published 2009
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.05 — 616 ratings — published 2008
Diary of a Madman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hiphop)
avg rating 3.97 — 597 ratings — published 2015
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,159 ratings — published 2013
The Wu-Tang Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,556 ratings — published 2004
The Rose That Grew From Concrete (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.41 — 13,730 ratings — published 1999
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.54 — 5,285 ratings — published 2022
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,425 ratings — published 2011
The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.22 — 766 ratings — published
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,284 ratings — published 2019
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.28 — 620 ratings — published 2015
The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,408 ratings — published 2006
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.45 — 6,857 ratings — published 2019
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,799 ratings — published 2015
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.05 — 378 ratings — published 2008
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.27 — 668 ratings — published 2007
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.41 — 791 ratings — published 1999
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,624 ratings — published 2011
Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.29 — 184 ratings — published 2003
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 3.80 — 645 ratings — published 2008
The History of American Graffiti (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.39 — 62 ratings — published 2010
Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.26 — 917 ratings — published 2014
Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.52 — 967 ratings — published 2003
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.10 — 190 ratings — published 2007
Urban Science Education for the Hip-Hop Generation (Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Science Education: Research Dialogs, 3/1)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 3.95 — 40 ratings — published 2010
Gangsta Rap Coloring Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.11 — 92 ratings — published 2004
Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,268 ratings — published
Pulse of the People: Political Rap Music and Black Politics (American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 3.90 — 10 ratings — published 2015
The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 4.14 — 180 ratings — published 2012
We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,019 ratings — published 2016
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 4.29 — 536 ratings — published 2023
Hip Hop Reader, The, A Longman Topics Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 3.35 — 20 ratings — published 2007
Supermarket (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 3.31 — 26,976 ratings — published 2019
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,224 ratings — published 2010
Toxic Bible : The Book of Pluto (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 4.47 — 17 ratings — published
Banksy's Lost Works: On the trail of his vanishing street art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 3.89 — 38 ratings — published
Rapthology: Lessons in Life and Lyrics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 4.67 — 6 ratings — published
Piecebook: The Secret Drawings of Graffiti Writers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 4.40 — 45 ratings — published 2008
Independent As F***: Underground Hip-Hop from 1995-2005 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 3.12 — 26 ratings — published
Mascots & Mugs: The Characters and Cartoons of Subway Graffiti (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 4.00 — 7 ratings — published 2007
Spray Nation: 1980s NYC Graffiti Photos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 4.22 — 18 ratings — published
Graffiti 365 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 4.38 — 37 ratings — published 2011
“Rap was always a pipe dream for me, but rap was all I had. Because really, what was I going to do with my life? I had a young daughter. Kim and I were always either getting evicted or our house was getting shot up or robbed.”
― The Way I Am
― The Way I Am
“A child of the ghetto, nobody explain it to me
Livin' the scripture the picture they painted for me
Knew what it wasn't, it wasn't to gain a degree
Rippin' and runnin', they gunnin' and aimin' for me
A child of the ghetto, nobody explain it to me
Livin' the scripture the picture they painted for me”
―
Livin' the scripture the picture they painted for me
Knew what it wasn't, it wasn't to gain a degree
Rippin' and runnin', they gunnin' and aimin' for me
A child of the ghetto, nobody explain it to me
Livin' the scripture the picture they painted for me”
―
