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
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
Decoded
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)
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Hip Hop America
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
Commissary Kitchen by Albert  JohnsonCookin' with Coolio by CoolioStoned Beyond Belief by Action BronsonF*ck, That's Delicious by Action BronsonFrom Crook to Cook by Snoop Dogg
Rapper written cookbooks
7 books — 2 voters

Trick of the Spotlight by M.L. EastComeback by Lyn AshwoodRemember Tonight by Love JourneyLOVE LANGUAGE by Love JourneyI'll Be the One by Lyla Lee
KPOP JPOP CPOP Romance
37 books — 19 voters
Big Freedia by Big FreediaIt's Bigger Than Hip Hop by M.K. Asante Jr.Can't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff ChangCan't Stop Won't Stop by Jeff ChangBig Freedia by Big Freedia
Hip Hop/Rap Course
16 books — 17 voters


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Rap music is the newspaper of black people.
Jason Tanz, Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America

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In our hip-hop lives we make rhymes we make beats we go big or go home. - Esme from Sister Mischief
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