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Hip Hop Books
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.15 � 5,478 ratings � published 2005
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.12 � 7,146 ratings � published 2013
The Tao of Wu (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.07 � 5,283 ratings � published 2009
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.26 � 643 ratings � published 2007
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.56 � 4,091 ratings � published 2022
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.38 � 4,579 ratings � published 2015
Decoded (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.86 � 8,590 ratings � published 2009
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.80 � 626 ratings � published 2008
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.04 � 598 ratings � published 2008
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.34 � 1,183 ratings � published 2010
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
by (shelved 21 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.46 � 6,222 ratings � published 2019
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981 (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.16 � 2,109 ratings � published 2013
The Rose That Grew from Concrete (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.41 � 12,791 ratings � published 1999
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.41 � 780 ratings � published 1999
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.10 � 830 ratings � published 1994
Hip Hop America (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.82 � 664 ratings � published 1998
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.06 � 1,162 ratings � published 2019
Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.35 � 1,868 ratings � published 2016
How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.99 � 770 ratings � published 2009
Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.84 � 291 ratings � published 2011
The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.22 � 643 ratings � published
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.09 � 11,122 ratings � published 2017
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.17 � 1,295 ratings � published 2011
The Wu-Tang Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.07 � 1,443 ratings � published 2004
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.83 � 318 ratings � published 2008
The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.83 � 298 ratings � published 2002
Tupac Shakur : Holler If You Hear Me (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.05 � 1,535 ratings � published 2001
From Staircase to Stage: The Story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.24 � 826 ratings � published 2021
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.10 � 186 ratings � published 2007
Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.55 � 252 ratings � published
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.09 � 175 ratings � published 2004
That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.16 � 171 ratings � published 2003
Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.73 � 1,187 ratings � published
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 4: 1984-1985 (HIP HOP FAMILY TREE GN)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.21 � 437 ratings � published 2016
Hip Hop Family Tree Book 3: 1983-1984 (HIP HOP FAMILY TREE GN)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.30 � 597 ratings � published 2015
The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.14 � 221 ratings � published 2009
One Day It'll All Make Sense (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.86 � 1,255 ratings � published 2011
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.99 � 2,097 ratings � published 1999
Beastie Boys Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.53 � 13,508 ratings � published 2018
Vibrate Higher: A Rap Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.05 � 588 ratings � published 2021
Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.78 � 357 ratings � published 1997
Hip Hop Family Tree Vol. 2 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.27 � 899 ratings � published 2014
Yes Yes Y'all: The Experience Music Project Oral History Of Hip-hop's First Decade (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.21 � 229 ratings � published 2002
Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.69 � 197 ratings � published 2005
She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 3.93 � 690 ratings � published
Check the Technique Volume 2: More Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.46 � 92 ratings � published
The Way I Am (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.34 � 2,590 ratings � published 2008
Rakim Told Me: Wax Facts Straight from the Original Artists--The '80s. (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.19 � 74 ratings � published 2005
The Anthology of Rap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.19 � 259 ratings � published 2010
The 50th Law: Overcoming Adversity Through Fearlessness (Imitation Leather)
by (shelved 8 times as hip-hop)
avg rating 4.17 � 13,372 ratings � published 2008
“Got a Vonnegut punch for your Atlas Shrugs!”
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“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
