Rap (Music) + History and criticism
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Rap (Music) + History and criticism
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Rap (Music) + History and criticism
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- God save the queens, the essential history of women in hip-hop, Kathy Iandoli
- Hip hop legends, STS Media production ; a Sugarcubed Studios film ; producers, Michael Berman, Amad Henderson, John Henderson ; director, Mike Corbera
- The come up, an oral history of the rise of hip-hop, Jonathan Abrams
- Hip hop, the songs that shook America, directed by One9, Erik Parker
- She begat this, 20 years of The miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Joan Morgan
- Fight the power, rap, race, and reality, Chuck D with Yusuf Jah
- African American jazz and rap, social and philosophical examinations of Black expressive behavior, edited by James L. Conyers, Jr. ; introduction by James B. Stewart
- The concise guide to hip-hop music, a fresh look at the art of hip-hop, from old-school beats to freestyle rap, Paul Edwards
- The games black girls play, learning the ropes from Double-dutch to Hip-hop, Kyra D. Gaunt
- Dilla time, the life and afterlife of J Dilla, the hip-hop producer who reinvented rhythm, Dan Charnas ; with musical analysis by Jeff Peretz
- That's the joint!, the hip-hop studies reader, Murray Forman & Mark Anthony Neal, editors
- You don't know me but you don't like me, Phish, Insane Clown Posse, and my misadventures with two of music's most maligned tribes, Nathan Rabin
- The history of rap and hip-hop, Soren Baker
- It's bigger than hip-hop, the rise of the post-hip-hop generation, M.K. Asante, Jr
- Black studies, rap, and the academy, Houston A. Baker, Jr
- Hip hop's amnesia, from blues and the black women's club movement to rap and the hip hop movement, Reiland Rabaka
- Somebody scream!, rap music's rise to prominence in the aftershock of black power, Marcus Reeves
- She begat this, 20 years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Joan Morgan
- Global noise, rap and hip-hop outside the USA, edited by Tony Mitchell
- I am hip-hop, conversations on the music and culture, Andrew J. Rausch
- Chamber music, Wu-Tang and America (in 36 pieces), Will Ashon
- Rhymin' and stealin', musical borrowing in hip-hop, Justin A. Williams
- When rap music had a conscience, the artists, organizations, and historic events that inspired and influenced the "Golden Age" of hip-hop from 1987 to 1996, Tayannah Lee McQuillar ; foreword by Brother J of X-Clan
- The record players, DJ revolutionaries, Bill Brewster & Frank Broughton
- Book of rhymes, the poetics of hip hop, Adam Bradley
- Promise that you will sing about me, the power and poetry of Kendrick Lamar, Miles Marshall Lewis
- Decoded, Jay-Z
- Black noise, rap music and black culture in contemporary America, Tricia Rose
- 3 kings, Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, and hip-hop's multibillion-dollar rise, Zack O'Malley Greenburg
- Droppin' science, critical essays on rap music and hip hop culture, edited by William Eric Perkins
- Can't stop, won't stop, a history of the hip-hop generation, Jeff Chang ; introduction by D.J. Kool Herc
- Freestyle, the art of rhyme, Organic Films ; directed by Kevin Fitzgerald ; produced by Henry Alex Rubin
- From the streets of Shaolin, the Wu-Tang saga, S. H. Fernando Jr.
- Rap-up, the ultimate guide to hip-hop and R&B, Cameron Lazerine and Devin Lazerine ; foreword by T.I [Tip Harris]
- Decoded, Jay-Z
- Ode to hip-hop, 50 albums that define 50 years of trailblazing music, Kiana Fitzgerald ; illustrated by Yay Abe
- Diary of a madman, the Geto Boys, life, death, and the roots of Southern rap, Brad Scarface Jordan and Benjamin Meadows Ingram
- This day in rap and hip-hop history, Chuck D ; foreword by Shepard Fairey
- Classic material, the hip-hop album guide, edited by Oliver Wang ; [foreword by Dante Ross]
- The streets win, 50 years of hip-hop greatness, Vikki Tobak, Alec Banks
- And it don't stop?, the best American hip-hop journalism of the last 25 years, edited by Raquel Cepeda ; foreword by Nelson George
- Born to use mics, reading Nas's Illmatic, edited by Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai
- Know what I mean?, reflections on hip-hop, by Michael Eric Dyson ; intro by Jay-Z, outro by Nas
- Hip hop raised me, by DJ Semtex ; foreword, Chuck D
- Def Jam Recordings, the first 25 years of the last great record label, [essays by Bill Adler and Dan Charnas ; prefaces by Rick Rubin, Russel Simmons, Lyor Cohen and Kevin Liles ; introduction by Kelefa Sanneh]
- Can't stop won't stop, Jeff Chang
- Groove music, the art and culture of the hip-hop DJ, Mark Katz
- Jay-Z, made in America, Michael Eric Dyson ; illustrations by Everett Dyson ; with a foreword by Pharrell
- Ego trip's book of rap lists, by Sacha Jenkins [and others]
- Hip hop America, by Nelson George