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75 Books in the MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Rap & Hip Hop Category

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The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop The Upcycled Self: A Memoir on the Art of Becoming Who We Are The Book of Jose: A Memoir Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story Jay-Z: Made in America Can I Kick It? Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop The Autobiography of Gucci Mane Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader My Voice: A Memoir Unashamed Snoop Dogg: Reincarnated Welcome To Death Row: The Uncensored Oral History of Death Row Records in the Words of Those Who Were There CHUCK D: LYRICS OF A RAP REVOLUTIONARY The Psychological Covert War On Hip Hop Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove Game Over Darkest America: Black Minstrelsy From Slavery To Hip-Hop Nicki Minaj: The Woman Who Stole The World One Day It’ll All Make Sense Flavor Flav: The Icon The Memoir My Infamous Life: The Autobiography Of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey Decoded Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap (African American Cultural Theory and Heritage) The 50th Law It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--From Music to Hollywood Raising Kanye: Life Lessons from the Mother of a Hip-Hop Superstar Dancing With the Devil: How Puff Burned the Bad Boys of Hip-Hop The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop—And Why It Matters All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats Hiding In Hip Hop: On The Down Low In The Entertainment Industry--From Music To Hollywood Somebody Scream!: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop It’s No Secret: From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal—a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics Of Hip-Hop It’s No Secret: From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal—a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All Bling: The Hip-Hop Jewelry Book Raising Hell: The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay Tupac Shakur Legacy Kanye West in the Studio: Beats Down! Money Up! The Studio Years (2000 - 2006) The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture Thru My Eyes: Thoughts on Tupac Amaru Shakur in Pictures and Words A History of Hip-Hop: The Roots of Rap (High Five Reading) Def Jam, Inc. : Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World’s Most Influential Hip-Hop Label Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America Hip Hop America Rakim Told Me: Wax Facts Straight from the Original Artists—The ’80s. Prophets of the Hood-PB Scars of the Soul Are Why Kids Wear Bandages When They Don’t Have Bruises And It Don’t Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of HipHop Photography Life And Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God Bad Boy: The Influence of Sean "Puffy" Combs on the Music Industry Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur Tha Doggfather: The Times, Trials, and Hardcore Truths of Snoop Dogg The Rose That Grew from Concrete Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality Rap on Gangsta Rap: Who Run It?: Gangsta Rap and Visions of Black Violence Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America