Rap category: 259 books
by Adam Bradley, Andrew DuBois, Henry Louis Gates
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Triksta
Life and Death and New Orleans Rap
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Acclaimed music writer Nik Cohn’s love of hip-hop goes back to its beginnings, and his love of New Orleans even further, to when he passed through the Big Easy on tour with The Who and discovered a place with a magic that never failed to seize him. On the surface he’s the least likely candidate...
by Richard Henry
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
What do Tupac, Eminem, Cassidy, Common and Jin have in common? They're great freestylers. Discover your ability to freestyle with our ebook. This ebook is for those who already know how to write and rap hip hop lyrics. If you don't know how to do this, the ebook “A Guide For Writing Hip Hop Lyrics”...
Know What I Mean?
Reflections on Hip-Hop
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Whether along race, class, or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music and the culture that inspires it. Dubbed the Hip-Hop Intellectual”...
Labyrinth
The True Story of City of Lies, the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. and the Implication of the Los Angeles Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a controversial cop-on-cop shooting, eventually to discover that the officer killed was tied to Marion Suge” Knight’s notorious gangsta rap label, Death Row Records....
by Barnaby Legg, Jim McCarthy, "Flameboy"
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2005
From the creators of Godspeed: The Kurt Cobain Graphic and Eminem: In My Skin comes an explosive new graphic novel, tracing the events leading up to the death of one of modern music's most charismatic performers. Tupac: One Nation Under a Gun chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of the notorious...
The Next Next Level
A Story of Rap, Friendship, and Almost Giving Up
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
In the tradition of Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love, an unforgettable account of fame, fandom, and the problem of making art in the twenty-first century
In his multi-hyphenate ambitions, the musician who calls himself Juiceboxxx couldn’t be more modern—you might call him a punk...
La Verdad
An International Dialogue on Hip Hop Latinidades
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2016
From its earliest days, hip hop was more than just music, encapsulating the ideas of community and exchange. Artists like Mellow Man Ace and Kid Frost opened doors by infusing Spanish into their lyrics, calling for racial and social equality; others employed hip hop to comment on the effects of neo-liberalization...
Hip Hop Italia
Il rap italiano dalla breakdance alle rapstar
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Quando l’hip hop ti tocca, resti folgorato.
Dall’old school a oggi, dagli Usa all’Italia:
il bum-cha farà sempre vibrare le anime!
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Il lungo cammino dell’hip hop italiano dal pionieristico rap di Jovanotti alla consacrazione commerciale dei Club Dogo e di Fabri Fibra,...
Life and Def
Sex, Drugs, Money, and God
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Russell Simmons, the original and eternal hip-hop mogul, is one of the most innovative and influential figures in modern American business and culture. When no one outside of inner-city New York had even heard of hip-hop, Simmons saw the seeds of a global force that would change the way people talk,...
Check the Technique
Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
A Tribe Called Quest • Beastie Boys • De La Soul • Eric B. & Rakim • The Fugees • KRS-One • Pete Rock & CL Smooth • Public Enemy • The Roots • Run-DMC • Wu-Tang Clan • and twenty-five more hip-hop immortals
It’s a sad fact: hip-hop album liners have always been...
My Voice
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Angie Martinez is the “Voice of New York.” Now, for the first time, she candidly recounts the story of her rise to become an internationally celebrated hip hop radio icon.**
In her current reign at Power 105.1 and for nearly two decades at New York’s...
by Sandy Denton
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
She's the spiciest ingredient in the legendary rap group Salt-N-Pepa, and the outspoken star of VH1's smash-hit reality show. She's Sandy "Pepa" Denton -- and she's never at a loss for words. Now, in her first tell-all book, Pepa talks about sex, music, life, love, fame, and so much more....
"Most...
Introducing George The Poet
Search Party: A Collection of Poems
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2015
Listen to George perform each one of his poems as you read through the collection and enjoy a captivating, fully immersive poetry experience.
‘The title is Search Party – the idea being that we’re all out here looking for something, and my poems are my way of finding myself.’
A...