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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 (Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent)
The Psychological Covert War on Hip Hop: The Illuminati's takeover of Hip Hop
Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap
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
Donuts
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 2: 1981-1983
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
The Tao of Wu
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
Decoded
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
The History of Hip Hop by Eric ReeseCan't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff ChangGot the Flow by Carlos SalinasGangsta Rap by Benjamin ZephaniahGangsta Rap by Marc Villard
Books about rap and hip-hop
7 books — 3 voters
Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff ChangEgo Trip's Book of Rap Lists by Sacha JenkinsThe Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac ShakurBomb the Suburbs by William Upski WimsattDecoded by Jay-Z
Hip Hop History & Currency
148 books — 72 voters

Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff ChangIt's Bigger Than Hip Hop by M.K. Asante Jr.Freestyle For Life by Latif MercadoSix-Figure Musician - How to Sell More Music, Get More People... by David     HooperWidespread Panic in the Streets of Athens, Georgia by Gordon Lamb
MUSIC
115 books — 33 voters
Magic America by C.E. MedfordThe Shores We Walk by Gabriel RheaumeThe Sustainability Generation by Mark C. ColemanCall the Canaries Home by Laura BarrowThe Blood Legacy by Daman
Best Books about the Y-Generation
48 books — 36 voters

A Company of Swans by Eva IbbotsonThe Melting Season by Celeste ConwayRoom 555 by Cristy WatsonBunheads by Sophie FlackLeap by Jodi Lundgren
SYTYCD
16 books — 11 voters


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