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Hip-Hop City - Where Every Beat Tells A Story
Hip-Hop City - Where Every Beat Tells A Story Kim Goodlook Seabrook 9798986566382 Fiction Goodlook in Books Goodlook in Books Take a vibrant trip through the boroughs of rhythm with Hip Hop City, a ch...
The GoodLook Kids Save The Day: CeeJay Gets Bullied
The GoodLook Kids Save The Day: CeeJay Gets Bullied Kim Goodlook Seabrook 9798986566351 Fiction Goodlook in Books Goodlook in Books This book is for kids ages 5 to 8. The GoodLook Kids are on the way ...
Memory Lane
Memory Lane Kim Goodlook Seabrook 9798986566320 Poetry Goodlook in Books Goodlook in Books Memory Lane is a poetry book with self-help writing techniques. The journey through Kim GoodLook Seabrook’s l...
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop—And Why It Matters
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop—And Why It Matters Tricia Rose 9780465008971 Nonfiction Civitas Book Publisher Hachette Book Group How hip hop shapes our conversations ...
Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics Of Hip-Hop
Total Chaos: The Art And Aesthetics Of Hip-Hop Jeff Chang 9780465009091 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books It’s not just rap music. Hip-hop has transformed theater, dance, performance, poetr...
The Other Side of Absence: A Father’s Pain of Separation
The Other Side of Absence: A Father’s Pain of Separation Kim Goodlook Seabrook 9798896636021 Fiction Independently Published Independently Published The Other Side of Absence is an emotionally charged...
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America Bakari Kitwana 9780465037469 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books Our national conversation abo...
All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America
All About The Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can’t Save Black America John McWhorter 9781592403745 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The bestselling commentator, hailed for his frank and fearless arguments on ...
Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women
Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting 9780814740149 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press 2007 Popular Culture Association/Americ...
The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop’s Greatest Songs
The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop’s Greatest Songs Felicia Pride 9781568583358 Nonfiction Thunder’s Mouth Press Thunder’s Mouth Press In this book of life lessons culled from hip-hop culture,...
Who Stole the Soul? the Weaponization of Hip Hop: A Historical & Sociological Perspective
Who Stole the Soul? the Weaponization of Hip Hop: A Historical & Sociological Perspective Bernard O. Creamer 9780578699639 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published I was a 7-year-old...
Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South
Hip Hop’s Li’l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South Bettina L. Love 9781433111907 Nonfiction Peter Lang Publishing Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. This book has recei...
LL Cool J Presents the Streets Win: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness
LL Cool J Presents the Streets Win: 50 Years of Hip-Hop Greatness LL Cool J 9780847873166 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications Co-authored by Hip-Hop legend...
Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era
Hip-Hop Activism in the Obama Era Bakari Kitwana 9780883783085 Nonfiction Third World Press Third World Press Kitwana, author of the best-selling The Hip-Hop Generation, sits down with leadership of t...
Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes
Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes Kyle T. Mays 9781438469461 Nonfiction State University of New York Press State University of New York Press Expressive culture has always been an important part of the...
That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader Mark Anthony Neal and Murray Forman 9780415873260 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge This newly expanded and revised second edition of That’s the Joint brings...
Hip Hop at the End of the World: The Photography of Brother Ernie
Hip Hop at the End of the World: The Photography of Brother Ernie Ernie Paniccioli 9780789334411 Nonfiction Universe Publishing Rizzoli Filled with more than 250 images of artists including Ice Cube, ...
The Center of the Movement: Collecting Hip Hop Memorabilia
The Center of the Movement: Collecting Hip Hop Memorabilia Khalid el-Hakim 9781517563141 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Authored by Khalid el-Hakim and Dr. Derrick Jenkins, The Cente...
The Intersection between Hip Hop Culture & Education: The Museum Experiences
The Intersection between Hip Hop Culture & Education: The Museum Experiences Torman Jahi B089DNVQDZ Nonfiction BookBaby BookBaby In this insightful and globally focused narrative, Jahi—a veteran MC, a...
It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation MK Asante 9780312593025 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop takes a bold look at the rise of...
Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop
Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop Michael Eric Dyson 9780465017164 Nonfiction Basic Civitas Books Perseus Books Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source...
The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince’s Reign of Terror and The Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed (Street Legends)
The Supreme Team: The Birth of Crack and Hip-Hop, Prince’s Reign of Terror and The Supreme/50 Cent Beef Exposed (Street Legends) Seth Ferranti 9780980068740 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gor...
Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration Of Poetry With A Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience)
Hip Hop Speaks To Children: A Celebration Of Poetry With A Beat (A Poetry Speaks Experience) Nikki Giovanni 9781402210488 Nonfiction Sourcebooks Jabberwocky Sourcebooks NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER...
Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip-Hop
Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip-Hop George Yancy 9780415884747 Nonfiction Routledge Routledge In perceiving all rap and hip-hop music as violent, misogynistic, and sexually charged, are we denying the...
Wake Up: Hip-Hop, Christianity, and the Black Church
Wake Up: Hip-Hop, Christianity, and the Black Church Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan and Marlon F. Hall 9781426703010 Nonfiction Abingdon Press Abingdon Press First an expression of black urban youth, Hip Hop m...
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip-Hop Aesthetic William Jelani Cobb 9780814716700 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press 2007 Arts Club of Washington’s National Awar...
Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop
Psalms of My People: A Story of Black Liberation as Told through Hip-Hop Lenny Duncan 9781506479026 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media If you want to understand the Black experience in the US, you ...
A Hip-Hop Story
A Hip-Hop Story Heru Ptah 9780743483230 Fiction MTV Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. The first novel to truly capture the fast and furious world of hip-hop—one in which the line between art and life is bl...
Hip-Hop Is History
Hip-Hop Is History Questlove 9780374614072 Nonfiction AUWA Books Macmillan Publishers This is a book only Questlove could have written: a perceptive and personal reflection on the first half-century...
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop : A History of the Hip Hop Generation
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop : A History of the Hip Hop Generation Jeff Chang 9780312425791 Nonfiction Sutton Place Publishers, Incorporated Sutton Place Publishers, Incorporated Featuring an introduction by...
Mogul: A Novel
Mogul: A Novel Terrance Dean 9781451611922 Fiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. From the Essence bestselling author of Hiding in Hip Hop and an entertainment insider—a juicy debut novel about th...
Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity
Beats, Rhymes, and Classroom Life: Hip-Hop Pedagogy and the Politics of Identity Marc Lamont Hill 9780807749609 Nonfiction Teachers College Press Teachers College ’Hill’s book is a beautifully writt...
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic
To the Break of Dawn: A Freestyle on the Hip Hop Aesthetic William Jelani Cobb 9780814716717 Nonfiction New York University Press New York University Press 2007 Arts Club of Washington’s National Awar...
Higher Learning
Higher Learning Karin L. Stanford and Charles E. Jones 9781580730587 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Similar to the ways that Jazz, the Blues and Soul music heightened consciousnes...
Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story
Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story Talib Kweli 9780374283407 Fiction MCD Macmillan Publishers From one of the most lyrically gifted, socially conscious rappers of the past twenty years, Vibrate Higher is a f...
Losing My Cool: How A Father’s Love And 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture
Losing My Cool: How A Father’s Love And 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture Thomas Chatterton Williams 9781594202636 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop ...
A Flag for Juneteenth
A Flag for Juneteenth Kim Taylor 9780823452248 Nonfiction Neal Porter Books Holiday House Expert quilter Kim Taylor shares a unique and powerful story of the celebration of the first Juneteenth, from ...
What Is Hip-Hop?
What Is Hip-Hop? Eric Morse 9781617755842 Nonfiction Black Sheep Akashic Books Included in Publishers Weekly’s Big Indie Books of Fall 2017 featureMorse and Yi (the team behind What Is Punk?) highligh...
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery)
The Plot Against Hip Hop: A Novel (A D Hunter Mystery) Nelson George 9781617750243 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "George is an ace at interlacing the real dramas of the world … the book’s slim l...
I’m Free, but It’ll Cost You: The Single Life According to Kim Coles
I’m Free, but It’ll Cost You: The Single Life According to Kim Coles Kim Coles 9780786883226 Nonfiction Hyperion Hachette Book Group In her hilarious book, I’M FREE, BUT IT’LL COST YOU, Kim Coles expl...
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop Carole Boston Weatherford 9781499804119 Nonfiction Little Bee Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Explore the roots of rap in this stunning, rhyming, tri...
Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History
Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History Chuck D 9780316430975 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group A one-of-a-kind survey of rap and hip hop history from 1973 to today by ...
The New Beats Redux: Exploring the music, culture and attitudes of hip-hop
The New Beats Redux: Exploring the music, culture and attitudes of hip-hop S. H. Fernando Jr. 9781936411498 Nonfiction YBK Publishers YBK Publishers The New Beats, first published in 1994, was one of ...
The Psychological Covert War On Hip Hop
The Psychological Covert War On Hip Hop Professor Griff 9780977124299 Fiction Taqiyyah Music Taqiyyah Music The Psychological Covert War on Hip Hop, The Illuminati take over, control, and brainwashing...
Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey
Hip-Hop: A Cultural Odyssey Jordan Sommers 9780615410661 Nonfiction Aria Multimedia Entertainment Aria Multimedia Entertainment Weighing in at nearly 18 pounds, Hip-Hop Culture’s first OFFICIAL luxury...
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies Brian Coleman 9780812977752 Nonfiction Villard Villard A Tribe Called Quest • Beastie Boys • De La Soul • Eric B. & Rakim •...
Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture
Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture Yvonne Bynoe 9780313330582 Nonfiction Greenwood Publishing Group Greenwood Publishing Group Hip Hop music is comprised of several art forms: 1) MC-ing or rappin...
And It Don’t Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
And It Don’t Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years Raquel Cepeda 9780571211593 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers In September 1979, there was a cosmic...
The Hip Hop Dating Guide
The Hip Hop Dating Guide Jeff Carroll 9780982008706 Nonfiction Hip Hop Comix N Flix Hip Hop Comix N Flix The Hip Hop Dating Guide is the product of more than 25 years of research and firsthand experie...
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Revised)
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Revised) Adam Bradley 9780465094400 Nonfiction Civitas Book Publisher Hachette Book Group So many books have been written about hip hop’s history—that time and ...
When The Beat Was Born: Dj Kool Herc And The Creation Of Hip Hop
When The Beat Was Born: Dj Kool Herc And The Creation Of Hip Hop Laban Carrick Hill 9781596435407 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Before there was hip hop, there was DJ Kool Herc. ...
Sci-Fi Streetz: The Book of Hip Hop Sci-fi stories
Sci-Fi Streetz: The Book of Hip Hop Sci-fi stories Jeff Carroll 9780982008744 Fiction Hip Hop Comix N Flix Hip Hop Comix N Flix The world of Science Fiction is so expansive that once I stepped into th...
Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap
Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap National Museum of African American History and Culture 978Smithsonia Nonfiction Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Smithsonian Books The Smithsonian Anthology of...
Hip-Hop Rhyming Dictionary
Hip-Hop Rhyming Dictionary Kevin Mitchell 9780739033333 Nonfiction Alfred Music Alfred Music With Over 40,000 words including slang and hip-hop terms, the Hip-Hop Rhyming Dictionary is the perfect res...
The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
The Breakbeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall 9781608463954 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Hip-Hop is the largest youth cul...
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats Grandmaster Flash 9780767924757 Nonfiction Crown Publishing Group Penguin Random House A no-holds-barred memoir from the primary architect of hip...
The Show Must Go On: Backstage Stories of a Hip-Hop Agent
The Show Must Go On: Backstage Stories of a Hip-Hop Agent Mark Green 9781963874099 Nonfiction Mynd Matters Publishing Mynd Matters Publishing As the owner of Celebrity Talent Agency, a venture 25 year...
Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography
Coleman Hill (hardcover): A Biomythography Kim Coleman Foote 9781638931140 Fiction SJP Lit Zando Meet Kim Coleman Foote on Tour “Once in a while, a writer comes along with a brilliance that stops t...
Blessed Life: My Surprising Journey of Joy, Tears, and Tales from Harlem to Hollywood
Blessed Life: My Surprising Journey of Joy, Tears, and Tales from Harlem to Hollywood Kim Fields 9781478947547 Nonfiction FaithWords Hachette Book Group From "Facts of Life" to "Living ...
In the Hour of Chaos: Art and Activism with Public Enemy’s Chuck D Volume 6
In the Hour of Chaos: Art and Activism with Public Enemy’s Chuck D Volume 6 Chuck D 9780520427396 Nonfiction University of California Press University of California Press A profound meditation on hip ...
Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--From Music to Hollywood
Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--From Music to Hollywood Terrance Dean 9781416553403 Nonfiction Atria Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Within the masculine culture of hip ...
Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop
Born in the Bronx: A Visual Record of the Early Days of Hip Hop Johan Kuelberg 9780789315403 Nonfiction Rizzoli International Publications Rizzoli International Publications Hip hop first became a p...
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas 1900-2002 Ishmael Reed 9781560254584 Poetry Da Capo Press Perseus Books Group Celebrated novelist, poet, and MacArthur f...
It’s No Secret: From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal—a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All
It’s No Secret: From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal—a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All Carmen Bryan 9781416537205 Nonfiction Gallery Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Carmen Bryan is no stranger to...
It’s No Secret: From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal—a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All
It’s No Secret: From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal—a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All Carmen Bryan 9781416532668 Nonfiction VH1 Viacom Music and Entertainment Group Carmen Bryan is no strange...
I Love My People
I Love My People Kim Singleton 9781506486710 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Say it with her now: “I love my people ” In rhythmic prowess, Kim Singleton recounts the beauty and legacy of Blac...
Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of HipHop Photography
Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of HipHop Photography Ernie Paniccioli and Kevin Powell 9780066211688 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Nearly thirty years ago, Ernie Paniccioli began photographing the gra...
Def Jam, Inc. : Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World’s Most Influential Hip-Hop Label
Def Jam, Inc. : Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World’s Most Influential Hip-Hop Label Stacy Gueraseva 9780345468048 Nonfiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random Hous...
Just for Kicks: A Cole Moneye Hip-Hop Mystery
Just for Kicks: A Cole Moneye Hip-Hop Mystery Marcus Kareem 9798396520134 Fiction In the Stream Publishing In the Stream Publishing The Search for Cole Moneye is the first installment in the COLE MONE...
Rakim Told Me: Wax Facts Straight from the Original Artists—The ’80s.
Rakim Told Me: Wax Facts Straight from the Original Artists—The ’80s. Brian Coleman 9780976622505 Nonfiction AMS Press AMS Press For years, hip-hop fans have been robbed of context and background when...
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding
Trespass: Portraits of Unhoused Life, Love, and Understanding Kim Watson 9781506491134 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media As seen through the eyes of photographer Kim Watson, who has spent three ye...
Illmatic Consequences: The Clapback to Opponents of ‘Critical Race Theory’
Illmatic Consequences: The Clapback to Opponents of ‘Critical Race Theory’ Walter Greason and Danian Darrell Jerry 9781942774907 Nonfiction Universal Write Publications Universal Write Publications Il...
Street Life to Housewife
Street Life to Housewife Kim Robinson 9780982067932 Nonfiction Kim’s Publishing Kim’s Publishing What makes a girl take to the streets. Read the cinderella story that leads her to a life as a motivati...
The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast
The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast S. H. Fernando Jr. 9781662602177 Nonfiction Astra House Astra Publishing House The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive an...
Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy
Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy Halifu Osumare 9780813080345 Nonfiction University Press of Florida University Press of Florida Also Available in Hardcover A Black danc...
The Dope Game - Misadventures of Fat Cat & Pappy Mason
The Dope Game - Misadventures of Fat Cat & Pappy Mason Seth Ferranti 9780988976016 Nonfiction Gorilla Convict Publications Gorilla Convict Publications Fat Cat and Pappy Mason are the most infamous an...
In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap (African American Cultural Theory and Heritage)
In the Heart of the Beat: The Poetry of Rap (African American Cultural Theory and Heritage) Alexs D. Pate 9780810860087 Poetry Scarecrow Press Rowman & Littlefield Despite its extraordinary popularity...
I Love My People A Child’s Celebration of Black Culture
I Love My People A Child’s Celebration of Black Culture Kim Singleton 9798889831587 Nonfiction Beaming Books 1517 Media Say it loud, say it proud: I Love My People! An energizing tour of Black cult...
Surviving God: A New Vision of God Through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors
Surviving God: A New Vision of God Through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan M. Shaw 9781506495781 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media Who is God when we see God through ...
Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America
Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed: Notes from Periracial America Kim McLarin 9781632461582 Nonfiction Ig Publishing Ig Publishing “What does periracial mean? It's a word I mad...
African Voices Hip Hop At 50
African Voices Hip Hop At 50 Kevin Powell av-hiphopat50 Fiction African Voices African Voices Magazine A special digital issue of African Voices celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop guest edite...
The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop
The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop Halifu Osumare 9781137021649 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers The Hiplife in Ghana explores one international site - Ghan...
The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves
The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves Halifu Osumare 9780230609617 Nonfiction Palgrave Macmillan Macmillan Publishers Asserting that hip hop culture has become another locus of postm...
Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation
Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation Natalie Hopkinson and Natalie Y. Moore 9781573442572 Nonfiction Cleis Press Cleis Press Two smart Black women break the...
This Game of Hip Hop Artist Management
This Game of Hip Hop Artist Management Walt Goodridge 9780974531335 Nonfiction A Company Called W A Company Called W This book is part of The Integrated Life™ Hip Hop Entrepreneur series. THE CONCEPT...
Hip-Hop Lollipop
Hip-Hop Lollipop Susan Montanari 9781101934821 Fiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books In this lyrical read-aloud filled with rhythm and rhyme and illustrated by Caldecott Honor winner B...
Life And Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God
Life And Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God Russell Simmons 9780609807156 Nonfiction Three Rivers Press Three Rivers Press Russell Simmons, the original and eternal hip-hop mogul, is one of the most innova...
Wash Day Diaries
Wash Day Diaries Jamila Rowser 9781797205458 Fiction Chronicle Books Chronicle Books From writer Jamila Rowser and artist Robyn Smith comes a captivating graphic novel love letter to the beauty and en...
Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball
Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball Onaje X. O. Woodbine 9780231177283 Fiction Columbia University Press Columbia University Press J-Rod moves like a small battle tank ...
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography Of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography Of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy Albert “Prodigy” Johnson 9781439103180 Nonfiction Touchstone Simon & Schuster, Inc. From one of the greatest rappers of all time, a memoir ab...
Always Want More
Always Want More Banke Awopetu-McCullough 9781634130974 Fiction Mill City Press, Inc. Mill City Press, Inc. Tracy Mitchell’s rise in the hip-hop journalism world was swift and fierce. Having secure...
A People’s History of Chicago
A People’s History of Chicago Kevin Coval 9781608466719 Poetry Haymarket Books Haymarket Books Known variously as “the Windy City,” “the City of Big Shoulders,” or “Chi-Raq,” Chicago is one of the mos...
Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove Questlove and Ben Greenman 9781455501359 Nonfiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Mo’ Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyo...
Somebody Scream!: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power
Somebody Scream!: Rap Music’s Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power Marcus Reeves 9780571211401 Nonfiction Faber and Faber Faber and Faber For many African Americans of a certain demogra...
Breaking to the Beat!
Breaking to the Beat! Linda J. Acevedo 9781643796390 Fiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A boogie-down picture book about a shy boy named Manolo who overcomes his fears and insecurities to become ...
The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop Saul Williams 9781416516323 Fiction MTV Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. In the underground labyrinths of New York City’s subway system, beneath the t...
Baby’s First Signs
Baby’s First Signs Kim Votry 9781563681141 Nonfiction Gallaudet University Press Gallaudet University Press Every parent knows the frustration of trying to satisfy the demands of an infant too young t...
City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War
City of S The History of New York City during the Civil War John Strausbaugh 9781455584185 Nonfiction Twelve Hachette Book Group WINNER OF THE FLETCHER PRATT AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION BOOK OF 2016In...
No Words for the Dead: A Cole Moneye Hip-Hop Mystery
No Words for the Dead: A Cole Moneye Hip-Hop Mystery Marcus Kareem 9798905537899 Fiction In the Stream Publishing In the Stream Publishing No Words for the Dead is the second installment in the COLE M...
Stewdio: The Naphic Grovel Artrilogy of Chuck D
Stewdio: The Naphic Grovel Artrilogy of Chuck D Chuck D 9781636141008 Nonfiction Enemy Books Akashic Books Chuck D (Public Enemy, Prophets of Rage, etc.) brings his personal insights and social critiq...