Rap & Hip Hop
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Words for My Comrades: A Political History of Tupac Shakur
$32.00 Add to cartFrom Pitchfork and Guardian contributor Dean Van Nguyen comes a revelatory history of Tupac beyond his musical legend, as a radical son of the Black Panther Party whose political legacy still resonate… [more below]
- Author: Van Nguyen, Dean
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0385550022
- Language: English
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On Ruben Slikk: A Manifesto on the Purpose of Art and the Value of Transgression
$15.00 Add to cartOn Ruben Slikk: An Manifesto on the Purpose of Art and the Value of Transgression is a philosophical and critical inquiry into the modern musical landscape, using the obscure, prolific, transgressive
- Author: True, Caleb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1088156738
- Language: English
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Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
$29.99 Read moreA modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap–a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvation from acclaimed New York Times reporter Joe Coscar… [more below]
- Author: Coscarelli, Joe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 198210788X
- Language: English
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Kill Your Masters: Run the Jewels and the World That Made Them
$28.95 Add to cartAll the unwritten rules of rap say it doesn’t happen like this. Yet Killer Mike, a Black man from Atlanta, Georgia, and El-P, a white man from Brooklyn, New York, have transformed what should have bee
- Series: Music of the American South
- Author: Doelen, Jaap Van Der
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820367826
- Language: English
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Floss
$50.00 Add to cartFLOSS comprises a collection of monographs showcasing retrospective photographs by Roger Erickson, highlighting Hip Hop and Rock’n Roll music from the 1990s.
These uniquely stylized images explore the- Author: Erickson, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1961856085
- Language: English
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The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast
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The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist’s life, career, and eventual immortality.
“Fernando provides a comprehensive look at DOOM’s life and career, meti… [more below]- Author: Fernando, S. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1662602170
- Language: English
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Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography
$22.00 Add to cartThe authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a “touching, empathetic portrait” (The New York Times) of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwri… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Staci
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1524761052
- Language: English
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D. O. Double G: The Little Guide to Snoop Dogg
$8.95 Add to cartAmerica’s Original Gangsta.
Snoop Doggy Dogg fired up the burgeoning U.S. rap scene in 1993 with his outstanding debut, Doggystyle. It not only revolutionised a genre, it also put West Coast ganstas a
- Series: Little Books of Music
- Author: Orange Hippo!
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1800696272
- Language: English
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Cross the Tracks: A Memoir
$27.99 Add to cartFrom one of rap’s most evocative writers comes a stirring memoir and “masterpiece of a book” (Snoop Dogg) about how Boosie Badazz, one of the industry’s most controversial figures, was able to overcom… [more below]
- Author: Badazz, Boosie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1982131365
- Language: English
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Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop
$24.95 Read moreFirst book on hip-hop sampling as a musical process, now with a new foreword and afterword
Winner of IASPM’s 2005 International Book Award
Based on ten years of research among hip-hop producers, Making
- Series: Music / Culture
- Author: Schloss, Joseph G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0819574813
- Language: English
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Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
$14.95 Add to cartIn the first decade of the twenty-first century, Kanye West created the most compelling body of pop music by an American artist during the period. Having risen from obscurity as a precocious producer
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Graves, Kirk Walker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 19 2014
- ISBN10: 1623565421
- Language: English
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High and Rising: A Book about de la Soul
$29.99 Add to cartA stunning cultural biography of De La Soul, the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched millions of lives and changed rap forever.
De La Soul burst onto the scene with the release of their groundbreaki
- Author: Moore, Marcus J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0358494885
- Language: English
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This Bright Future: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller and “inspiring and vulnerable” (Trevor Noah) memoir from Bobby Hall, the multiplatinum recording artist known as Logic and the #1 bestselling author of Supermarke… [more below]
- Author: Hall, Bobby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1982158255
- Language: English
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Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
$27.50 Read moreA Tribe Called Quest – Beastie Boys – De La Soul – Eric B. & Rakim – The Fugees – KRS-One – Pete Rock & CL Smooth – Public Enemy – The Roots – Run-DMC – Wu-Tang Clan – and twenty-five more hip-hop imm… [more below]
- Author: Coleman, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: June 12 2007
- ISBN10: 0812977750
- Language: English
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Janelle Monáe’s Queer Afrofuturism: Defying Every Label
$27.95 Read moreSinger. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer.
Janelle Monáe is all these things and more, making h- Series: Global Media and Race
- Author: Hassler-Forest, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: May 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1978826680
- Language: English
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Her Word Is Bond: Navigating Hip Hop and Relationships in a Culture of Misogyny
$19.95 Read moreHer Word is Bond recounts the triumphs and setbacks of a rap legend who blazed a new trail for women in hip hop.
- Series: Break Beat Poets
- Author: Bowen, Cristalle Psalm One
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 164259461X
- Language: English
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
$14.95 Read moreChristopher R. Weingarten provides a thrilling account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record: engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing, reconstructing –
- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Weingarten, Christopher R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0826429130
- Language: English
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Hip-Hop Alphabet 2
$14.99 Read moreTake another wondrous alphabetical journey through the glorious history of hip-hop in this follow-up to the beloved Hip-Hop Alphabet.
Featuring clever rhymes and graffiti-style drawings by legendary a- Author: Abrams, Howie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1682618455
- Language: English
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Together Forever: The Run-DMC and Beastie Boys Photographs
$45.00 Read more“People always get caught up in what these two iconic groups stood for, but can we just step back for a moment and say, who gives a fuck? They were good! They made amazing records!…Rap parallels pun… [more below]
- Author: Friedman, Glen E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0847866475
- Language: English
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Bring That Beat Back: How Sampling Built Hip-Hop
$22.95 Read moreHow sampling remade hip-hop over forty years, from pioneering superstar Grandmaster Flash through crate-digging preservationist and innovator Madlib
Sampling–incorporating found sound and manipulati
- Author: Patrin, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1517906288
- Language: English
