Hip Hop History & Currency

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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation 4.14 avg rating — 5,536 ratings
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Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists 4.41 avg rating — 786 ratings
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The Rose That Grew From Concrete
The Rose That Grew From Concrete 4.41 avg rating — 12,996 ratings
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Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center 3.89 avg rating — 1,200 ratings
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Decoded
Decoded
by: Jay-Z
3.86 avg rating — 8,614 ratings
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Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996
Tupac: Resurrection, 1971-1996 4.52 avg rating — 955 ratings
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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America 4.10 avg rating — 831 ratings
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The Way I Am
The Way I Am
by: Eminem
4.34 avg rating — 2,620 ratings
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The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop 4.35 avg rating — 1,191 ratings
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The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop 4.22 avg rating — 1,392 ratings
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It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation
It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation 4.05 avg rating — 375 ratings
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Pimp: The Story Of My Life
Pimp: The Story Of My Life really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14,391 ratings
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How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC
How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC 3.99 avg rating — 776 ratings
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Have Gun Will Travel : Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records
Have Gun Will Travel : Spectacular Rise and Violent Fall of Death Row Records
by: Ronin Ro
3.83 avg rating — 393 ratings
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Tyrell (Tyrell, #1)
Tyrell (Tyrell, #1)
by: Coe Booth
4.19 avg rating — 5,052 ratings
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by: Malcolm X
4.37 avg rating — 285,175 ratings
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It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 4.05 avg rating — 432 ratings
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Rakim Told Me: Wax Facts Straight from the Original Artists--The '80s.
Rakim Told Me: Wax Facts Straight from the Original Artists--The '80s. 4.17 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
by: Ed Piskor
4.16 avg rating — 2,125 ratings
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Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 2: 1981-1983
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 2: 1981-1983
by: Ed Piskor
4.27 avg rating — 905 ratings
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Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop 3.80 avg rating — 633 ratings
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All Music Guide to Hip-Hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap and Hip-Hop
All Music Guide to Hip-Hop: The Definitive Guide to Rap and Hip-Hop
by: Various
4.33 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Rap Attack, No. 3: African Rap to Global Hip Hop
Rap Attack, No. 3: African Rap to Global Hip Hop 3.80 avg rating — 79 ratings
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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters 4.05 avg rating — 605 ratings
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Tupac Shakur Legacy
Tupac Shakur Legacy 4.61 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood
by: Ice-T
3.88 avg rating — 1,580 ratings
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Satan's Rapper
Satan's Rapper really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series) 4.46 avg rating — 6,391 ratings
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Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap
Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap 4.16 avg rating — 293 ratings
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That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader
That's the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader 4.15 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler
Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler 3.77 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Rollin' with Dre: The Unauthorized Account: An Insider's Tale of the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of West Coast Hip Hop
Rollin' with Dre: The Unauthorized Account: An Insider's Tale of the Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of West Coast Hip Hop 3.03 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm
Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm 3.77 avg rating — 401 ratings
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Angry Blonde
Angry Blonde
by: Eminem
4.23 avg rating — 869 ratings
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The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed 4.38 avg rating — 4,632 ratings
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Gangsta Rap Coloring Book
Gangsta Rap Coloring Book
by: Aye Jay
4.09 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies 4.26 avg rating — 641 ratings
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Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop
Making Beats: The Art of Sample-Based Hip-Hop 3.84 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Wu-Tang Manual
The Wu-Tang Manual
by: The RZA
4.06 avg rating — 1,454 ratings
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Hip-Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 16)
Hip-Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 16) 3.70 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Foundation: B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York
Foundation: B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York 4.30 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Illmatic
Illmatic 3.59 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Pass the Mic: Beastie Boys 1991-1996
Pass the Mic: Beastie Boys 1991-1996 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America
Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America 3.39 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Westsiders
Westsiders 3.87 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God
Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, + God 3.78 avg rating — 426 ratings
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Now and Then...
Now and Then... 4.41 avg rating — 338 ratings
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Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop
Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop 3.84 avg rating — 293 ratings
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Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of HipHop Photography
Who Shot Ya?: Three Decades of HipHop Photography 4.24 avg rating — 38 ratings
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My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy 4.17 avg rating — 1,327 ratings
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Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present 3.30 avg rating — 1,471 ratings
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Notorious C.O.P.: The Inside Story of the Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay Investigations from NYPD's First "Hip-Hop Cop"
Notorious C.O.P.: The Inside Story of the Tupac, Biggie, and Jam Master Jay Investigations from NYPD's First "Hip-Hop Cop" 3.40 avg rating — 175 ratings
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, said the shotgun to the head.
, said the shotgun to the head. 4.21 avg rating — 3,184 ratings
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Where You're At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet
Where You're At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet 3.66 avg rating — 133 ratings
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6 'N The Morning: West Coast Hip-Hop Music 1987-1992 & the Transformation of Mainstream Culture
6 'N The Morning: West Coast Hip-Hop Music 1987-1992 & the Transformation of Mainstream Culture
by: Daudi Abe
4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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DJ Pascoe's Top 10 Tunes 2 - The best tracks from 101 of the hottest pop stars
DJ Pascoe's Top 10 Tunes 2 - The best tracks from 101 of the hottest pop stars it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The History of Hip Hop
The History of Hip Hop 3.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The History of Hip Hop: Volume One
The History of Hip Hop: Volume One 3.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
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The Living Human Curiosity Sideshow
The Living Human Curiosity Sideshow 4.79 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A Hip-Hop History 3.84 avg rating — 158 ratings
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For The Love: The Art of the Hip-Hop Video
For The Love: The Art of the Hip-Hop Video it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir
The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir 3.99 avg rating — 920 ratings
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Mobile DJing: A Practical Guide
Mobile DJing: A Practical Guide it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Rhythm and Blues
Rhythm and Blues 3.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The History of Hip Hop: Volume Two
The History of Hip Hop: Volume Two 3.43 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Break On Through
Break On Through 4.33 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument
The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument
by: KRS-One
4.13 avg rating — 223 ratings
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Ruthless: A Memoir
Ruthless: A Memoir 3.82 avg rating — 203 ratings
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E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX
E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX
by: D.M.X.
4.13 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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Root For The Villain: Rap, Bull$hit, and a Celebration of Failure
Root For The Villain: Rap, Bull$hit, and a Celebration of Failure
by: J-Zone
3.98 avg rating — 227 ratings
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Got the Flow: The Hip-Hop Diary of a Young Rapper
Got the Flow: The Hip-Hop Diary of a Young Rapper 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Straight Outta Compton
Straight Outta Compton 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Kendra
Kendra
by: Coe Booth
4.14 avg rating — 1,736 ratings
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Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic
Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic 3.83 avg rating — 319 ratings
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We B*Girlz
We B*Girlz 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing
Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word 3.81 avg rating — 1,613 ratings
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The Fortress of Solitude
The Fortress of Solitude 3.84 avg rating — 24,040 ratings
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Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality
Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality
by: Yusuf Jah
3.79 avg rating — 360 ratings
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When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down 3.99 avg rating — 2,103 ratings
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The Spoken Word Revolution
The Spoken Word Revolution 4.04 avg rating — 466 ratings
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Check it While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere
Check it While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere 4.07 avg rating — 58 ratings
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Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip Hop
Country Fried Soul: Adventures in Dirty South Hip Hop 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip-hop and the Globalisation of Black Popular Culture
The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip-hop and the Globalisation of Black Popular Culture 3.85 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA
Global Noise: Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA 3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office
Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office 3.64 avg rating — 1,585 ratings
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Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement
Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture, and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement 3.70 avg rating — 198 ratings
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Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking from Black Culture
by: Greg Tate
3.92 avg rating — 164 ratings
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Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap
Nuthin' but a "G" Thang: The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap 3.74 avg rating — 39 ratings
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People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm 3.39 avg rating — 211 ratings
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Tia's Diary Deeper Than Rap: Clarity, Truth, And Exposure
Tia's Diary Deeper Than Rap: Clarity, Truth, And Exposure 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Paul's Boutique
Paul's Boutique
by: Dan LeRoy
4.09 avg rating — 1,288 ratings
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Pharrell: Places and Spaces I've Been
Pharrell: Places and Spaces I've Been 4.17 avg rating — 278 ratings
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Back in the Days
Back in the Days 4.55 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Yes Yes Y'all: The Experience Music Project Oral History Of Hip-hop's First Decade
Yes Yes Y'all: The Experience Music Project Oral History Of Hip-hop's First Decade 4.22 avg rating — 229 ratings
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And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years 4.03 avg rating — 110 ratings
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The Hip Hop Years: A History of Rap
The Hip Hop Years: A History of Rap
by: Alex Ogg
3.93 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The Vibe History of Hip Hop
The Vibe History of Hip Hop 3.99 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Hip Hop Divas
Hip Hop Divas 3.65 avg rating — 23 ratings
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There's a God on the Mic: The True 50 Greatest MCs
There's a God on the Mic: The True 50 Greatest MCs really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 98 ratings
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