Rap category: 259 books
Def Jam, Inc.
Russell Simmons, Rick Rubin, and the Extraordinary Story of the World's Most Inf
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
In the early ‘80s, the music industry wrote off hip-hop as a passing fad. Few could or would have predicted that the improvised raps and raw beats busting out of New York City’s urban underclass would one day become a multimillion-dollar business and one of music’s most lucrative genres.
Among...
And It Don't Stop
The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
In September 1979, there was a cosmic shift that went unnoticed by the majority of mainstream America. This shift was triggered by the release of the Sugarhill Gang's single, Rapper's Delight. Not only did it usher rap music into the mainstream's consciousness, it brought us the word "hip-hop."...
Hurricanes
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2019
The highly anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miami’s crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies and his unstoppable rise to fame.
Rick Ross is an indomitable presence in the music industry, but few people know his full story. Now, for the...
Dirty South
OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Acting as both investigative journalist and irreverent critic, Ben Westhoff journeys across the southern United States in a small Hyundai to document the phenomenon of southern hip-hop. The exclusive interviews with the genre’s prominent players take many forms—watching rappers “make it rain”...
BMF
The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
In the early 1990s, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and his brother, Terry "Southwest T," rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family. After a decade in the drug game, the Flenorys had it all—a fleet...
Queens Reigns Supreme
Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
Based on police wiretaps and exclusive interviews with drug kingpins and hip-hop insiders, this is the untold story of how the streets and housing projects of southeast Queens took over the rap industry.For years, rappers from Nas to Ja Rule have hero-worshipped the legendary drug dealers who dominated...
by Fleetwood
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2011
The pursuit of hip hop stardom is a road that so many travel in the urban community. Taking their life in poverty, the drug environment,the attraction of crime, and putting it on display with their words for the world to listen to. Only to discover that the music business is more cut throat than the...
Toronto Sound Vol. 1
A Memoir of the City's Rising Producers
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
KLFTN, and I am the CEO/Founder of Sound Supremacy Entertainment, based out of Toronto, Canada. I am the person responsible for creating the platform “Battle of the Beat Makers”, which is responsible for discovering half of Drake’s OVO Sound producers and other highly successful Canadian music...
by Byron Crawford
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2013
An all you can eat buffet of probing, insightful hip-hop journalism, with thoughts on Rick Ross, Kreayshawn, Das Racist, Odd future, El-P, Killer Mike, Chief Keef, Rap Genius and music publications Pitchfork, SPIN and XXL.
by Heru Ptah
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2006
The first novel to truly capture the fast and furious world of hip-hop -- one in which the line between art and life is blurred for two ambitious MCs whose battle to be #1 is fought with weapons and words.
Rappers Flawless and Hannibal are two talented young men moving toward the same dream: to be...
Egyptian Hip-Hop: Expressions from the Underground
Cairo Papers in Social Science Vol. 34, No. 1
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This ethnographic study of the Egyptian underground hip-hop scene examines the artists who collectively molded the scene and analyzes their practices and explores how these artists have interacted with and responded to political and social upheaval and change. It reveals how rappers approached and...
Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop
Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Afro-Colombian Hip-Hop: Globalization, Transcultural Music, and Ethnic Identities, by Christopher Dennis, explores the impact that globalization and the transnational spread of U.S. popular culture—specifically hip-hop and rap—are having on the social identities of younger generations of black...
by Belmont and Belcourt Biographies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Aubrey Drake Graham, also known as Drake, is one of the most talked about hip hop artists today. But, in order to truly understand him, you must first understand where he came from. Drake: An Unauthorized Biography explores Drake's upbringing, his television career, and details his breakthrough into...
N.W.A: The Aftermath
Exclusive Interviews with Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Jerry Heller, Yella & Westside Connection
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
[N.W.A Fans Only!] Astonishing facts revealed for the first time!
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For **Decades Harris Rosen** **Has** **Been** **Asking** **Fearless** **Questions** **Of** **Hip-Hop's** **Biggest** **Names.** N.W.A: The Aftermath collects many...