Hip Hop

Hip hop is a broad conglomerate of artistic forms that originated within a marginalized subculture in the South Bronx and Harlem in New York City among black and Latino youth during the 1970s.

The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
One Day It'll All Make Sense
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent)
The Psychological Covert War on Hip Hop: The Illuminati's takeover of Hip Hop
Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap
The Tanning of America: How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy
Game Over: My Love for Hip Hop
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood
Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation
Donuts
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 2: 1981-1983
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
The Tao of Wu
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Decoded
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
A Company of Swans by Eva IbbotsonThe Melting Season by Celeste ConwayRoom 555 by Cristy WatsonBunheads by Sophie FlackLeap by Jodi Lundgren
SYTYCD
16 books — 11 voters
Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff ChangThe History of Hip Hop by Eric ReeseGot the Flow by Carlos SalinasGangsta Rap by Benjamin ZephaniahGangsta Rap by Marc Villard
Books about rap and hip-hop
7 books — 3 voters

The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac ShakurBig Freedia by Big FreediaDecoded by Jay-ZBook of Rhymes by Adam BradleyFor The Love by Kevin McDormand
The Definitive List of Hip-Hop Books
145 books — 43 voters
Mythic Adventures by Ayn Cates SullivanHair for Mama by Kelly TinkhamThe Broke Diaries by Angela NisselThe Wake of the Wind by J. California CooperThe Matter Is Life by J. California Cooper
Highly Favored
28 books — 9 voters


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