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Hiphop Books
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 5,719 ratings — published 2005
How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as hiphop)
avg rating 3.99 — 792 ratings — published 2009
The Tao of Wu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,738 ratings — published 2009
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,322 ratings — published 2013
The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.14 — 232 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 — 615 ratings — published 2008
Diary of a Madman (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hiphop)
avg rating 3.98 — 591 ratings — published 2015
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,155 ratings — published 2013
The Wu-Tang Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,549 ratings — published 2004
The Rose That Grew From Concrete (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.41 — 13,655 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 — 5,178 ratings — published 2022
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,414 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 — 754 ratings — published
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,275 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 — 619 ratings — published 2015
The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,406 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 — 6,811 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 — 4,781 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 4.26 — 668 ratings — published 2007
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.41 — 790 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 — 1,621 ratings — published 2011
Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 4.30 — 183 ratings — published 2003
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as hiphop)
avg rating 3.80 — 641 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 — 915 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 — 1,264 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 — 523 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 — 26,757 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 — 1,221 ratings — published 2010
Toxic Bible : The Book of Pluto (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as hiphop)
avg rating 4.40 — 15 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 — 35 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 3.17 — 24 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 4.36 — 36 ratings — published 2011
“I understand we all have our differences. But while learning about history I've read about white people coming together, Jews coming together, Spanish coming together, different cultures and religions understanding and coming together despite their differences. Slavery was never something that shocked me. What shocks me is how black people have not yet overcome the odds and we're such strong smart people. Why we can't just stand together?”
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“A child of the ghetto, nobody explain it to me, Livin the scripture the picture they painted for me.”
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