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
The Psychological Covert War on Hip Hop: The Illuminati's takeover of Hip Hop
The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama
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
J Dilla's Donuts
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 2: 1981-1983
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
Decoded
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music & Culture)
Hip Hop America
The Tao of Wu
The Big Payback
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop by M.K. Asante Jr.Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff ChangWhen the Beat Was Born by Laban Carrick HillThe Hip-Hop Generation by Bakari KitwanaHip Hop America by Nelson George
Hip Hop/Rap Course
8 books — 4 voters

Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff ChangIt's Bigger Than Hip Hop by M.K. Asante Jr.Six-Figure Musician - How to Sell More Music, Get More People... by David     HooperPlease Kill Me by Legs McNeilBlod Eld Död by Ika Johannesson
MUSIC
56 books — 20 voters
The Melting Season by Celeste ConwayA Company of Swans by Eva IbbotsonLeap by Jodi LundgrenBunheads by Sophie FlackA proper little Nooryeff by Jean Ure
SYTYCD
13 books — 7 voters

Buck by M.K. AsanteIt's Bigger Than Hip Hop by M.K. Asante Jr.The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Diatribes of a Dying Tribe by Yassin AlsalmanAssata by Assata Shakur
#KweliClub
48 books — 3 voters
The Commitments by Roddy DoyleChart Throb by Ben EltonSoul Music by Terry PratchettRagtime by E.L. DoctorowThe Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Tin Pan Alley
41 books — 15 voters

Nikesh Shukla
We'd taken up our positions on the benches between the school hall and a newly-installed outdoor basketball court. Being hip-hoppers, we were obliged to be obsessed with basketball. None of us had a ball.
Nikesh Shukla, Coconut Unlimited

Jay-Z
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.
Jay-Z, Decoded

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