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Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap
Brad "Scarface" Jordan and Benjamin Meadows Ingram
Dey Street Books
Paperback
9780062302649
2016
$16.99
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Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap
Brad "Scarface" Jordan and Benjamin Meadows Ingram
Dey Street Books
Hardcover
9780062302632
2015
$25.99
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Hip-Hop
From Totems to Hip-Hop: A Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002
Ishmael Reed
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The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip-hop and the Globalisation of Black Popular Culture
Robin D. G. Kelley, Dipannita Basu, and Sidney Lemelle
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How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC
Paul Edwards and Kool G Rap
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music Culture)
Tricia Rose
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Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
Adam Bradley
$16.95
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J Dilla's Donuts
Jordan Ferguson
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Hip Hop Family Tree 1975-1983 Gift Box Set
Ed Piskor
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The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama
Elijah Wald
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Rap, Race and Revolution: Solutions for Our Struggle (aka How to Hustle and Win)
Supreme Understanding
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Hip Hop Speaks to Children: CD-ROM
Nikki Giovanni
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Hip Hop Family Tree, Volume 2: 1981-1983
Charlie Ahearn and Ed Piskor
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Behind the Beat: Hip Hop Home Studios
Raph
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Buddy Esquire: King of the Hip Hop Flyer
Johan Kugelberg
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Legions of Boom
oliver wang
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Where'd You Get Those?: New York City's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987
Bobbito Garcia
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Sounding Race in Rap Songs
Loren Kajikawa
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Pulse of the People: Political Rap Music and Black Politics
Lakeyta M. Bonnette
$49.95
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Tell Homeland Security: We Are The Bomb – Boots Riley: Lyrics in Context, 1993-2012
Boots Riley
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Atlanta: Hip-Hop and the South
Michael Schmelling, Kelefa Sanneh, and Will Welch
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Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
Ben Westoff
$28.00
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Gone 'Til November
Lil Wayne
$23.00
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Ricky Powell: The Individualist
Nemo Librizzi (Author)
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Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap
Gerrick D. Kennedy (Author)
$26.00
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New York State of Mind 1.0: Exclusive 1992-1993 Interviews with Tragedy Khadafi, Brand Nubian, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
Harris Rosen
$11.99
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Beastie Boys Book
Michael Diamond and Adam Horovitz
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Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History
Chuck D
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Goin' Off: The Story of the Juice Crew and Cold Chillin' Records
Ben Merlis
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Native Tongues: An African Hip-hop Reader
Paul Khalil Saucier
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Rap on Trial: Race, Lyrics, and Guilt in America
Erik Nielson and Andrea Dennis
$24.99
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Son of the City: A Memoir
Dante Ross
$28.00
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Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics
Lester K. Spence
$25.50
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Hip Hop America
Nelson George
$16.00
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Fight the Power : Rap, Race, and Reality
Chuck D, Yusuf Jah, and Spike Lee
$14.00
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Raising Hell : The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay
Ronin Ro
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And It Don't Stop : The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
Nelson George and Raquel Cepeda
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The Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique (33 1/3)
Dan Leroy
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People's Instinctive Travels And the Paths of Rhythm
Shawn Taylor
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From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism (Politics History & Social Chan)
Patricia Hill Collins
$27.00
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Don't Rhyme for the Sake of Riddlin': The Authorised Story Of Public Enemy
Russell Myrie
$15.00
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Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic
Michael Eric Dyson and Sohail Daulatzai
$16.99
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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
M.K. Asante Jr.
$17.99
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Somebody Scream!: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power
Marcus Reeves
$7.00
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The Anthology of Rap
Adam Bradley, Andrew DuBois, Common, Chuck D, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
$25.00
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Close to the Edge: In Search of the Global Hip Hop Generation
Sujatha Fernandes
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Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Christopher R. Weingarten
$15.00
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Ballad of the Bullet: Gangs, Drill Music, and the Power of Online Infamy
Forrest Stuart
$16.95
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No Half Steppin': An Oral and Pictorial History of New York City Club the Latin Quarter and the Birth of Hip-Hop's Golden Era
Claude "Paradise" Gray
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Danger Mouse's The Grey Album
Charles Fairchild
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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about when We Talk about Hip Hop--and why it Matters
Tricia Rose
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Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Brian Coleman
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Check the Technique: Volume 2: More Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Brian Coleman and Adam Mansbach
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Beats to the Rhyme: A Collection of Instrumental Hip-Hop Records for the Beat Connoisseur
Albert D. Patterson
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Hip Hop Family Tree, Volume 1
Ed Piskor
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One Day It'll All Make Sense
Common and Adam Bradley
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The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
Gucci Mane and Neil Martinez-Belkin
$17.00
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Bring the Noise: 20 Years of Writing about Hip Rock and Hip Hop
Simon Reynolds
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Inner City Pressure
Dan Hancox
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DJ Shadow's Endtroducing...
Eliot Wilder
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Yo! the Early Days of Hip Hop 1982-84: Photography by Sophie Bramly
Sophie Bramly
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Back in the Days
Jamel Shabazz, Fab 5 Freddy, and Ernie Paniccioli
$39.95
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Wild Style: The Sampler
Charlie Ahearn
$14.00
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From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga
S. H. Fernando, Jr.
$19.99
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The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast
S. H. Fernando, Jr.
$30.00
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Hip Hop Family Tree, Volume 4: 1984–1985
Ed Piskor (Author)
$8.89
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The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
Saul Williams
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