Rap category: 259 books

Included in Publishers Weekly's Big Indie Books of Fall 2017 feature "Morse and Yi (the team behind What Is Punk?) highlight hip-hop's cultural hegemony via an impressively encyclopedic parade of rhyming biographies. Yi's meticulously styled clay figures are as magical as in the previous...

Rhymin’ and Stealin’ begins with a crucial premise: the fundamental element of hip-hop culture and aesthetics is the overt use of preexisting material to new ends. Whether it is taking an old dance move for a breakdancing battle, using spray paint to create street art, quoting from a famous speech,...

“Fernandes brilliantly captures the moment when a global generation curved toward a unifying language and culture and found something that was both much more and much less than what it was searching for. Close to the Edge is a beautifully told tale of the collective and the personal, the cultural...

Welcome to The Periodic Table of Hip Hop. Instead of hydrogen to helium, here you'll find James Brown to Kanye West - 94 artists that have defined Hip Hop arranged following the logic of The Periodic Table of Elements. MCs, DJs, rappers and producers are the elements here, and this expert guide...

Project Blowed is a legendary hiphop workshop based in Los Angeles. It began in 1994 when a group of youths moved their already renowned open-mic nights from the Good Life, a Crenshaw district health food store, to the KAOS Network, an arts center in Leimert Park. The local freestyle of articulate,...

Hip Hop Underground is a vivid ethnography of the author's observations and experiences in the multiracial world of the San Francisco underground hip hop scene. While Anthony Kwame Harrison interviewed area hip hop artists for this entertaining and informative book, he also performed as the emcee...

Magnolia: Home of tha Soldiers is 8 exclusive interviews, 10 exclusive photos, and 60 links to singles, mixtapes, and tales.   A riveting historical account of how two hustlers invested everything in one ten years old and changed the music business, forever! Magnolia: Home of tha Soldiers,...

Hip Hop Headphones is a crash course in Hip Hop culture. Featuring definitions, lectures, academic essays, and other scholarly discussions and resources, Hip Hop Headphones documents the scholarship of Dr. James B. Peterson, founder of Hip Hop Scholars-an organization devoted to developing the educational...

This game ain't what it used to be. Back in the day, you had to have skills and authenticity to be considered the greatest. Nowadays, the culture of Hip-Hop has become so diluted that it's taking away from those who do this for the passion. There's no talent. There's no accountability. There's no...

Here is to another book that is dedicated to the freedom of songwriting. Another diverse collection of songs and lyrics by Khali Raymond, what has he put onto paper this time? Only you can find out once you pick up NR: The Collection I.

The next exciting entry to "The Collective" series is a book of songs written as if they belonged on an album. What could these songs be about? What type of meaning could they hold for the audience? You can only find out once you open up this masterpiece.

"The Gathering" is one of the most intense musical festivals in the world, and film critic Laremy Legel puts you dead center in the middle of all the mayhem. Traveling with a group of fellow first-timers, you'll get to experience all the craziness The Gathering, The Insane Clown Posse, and the...

ONE OF AMAZON'S BEST ART & PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS 0F 2018 AN NPR AND PITCHFORK BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 PICK ONE OF TIME'S 25 BEST PHOTOBOOKS OF 2018 NEW YORK TIMES, ASSOCIATED PRESS, ***WALLSTREET JOURNA*****L, ROLLING STONE, AND CHICAGO SUN HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE PICK The perfect gift for music and...

***The only N.W.A book with 7 exclusive interviews, and links to 16 critical background interviews and 26 songs. *** DR. DRE: Tupac never knew me. **ICE CUBE:**I just do shit for Ice Cube fans, not for Hip-Hop fans.  YELLA: *Me and Dre produced all Eazy, N.W.A. All of that. Me and him did...