The Definitive List of Hip-Hop Books

101.
Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (Volume 7)
Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop (Volume 7) 4.09 avg rating — 91 ratings
102.
The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud
The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud 4.04 avg rating — 46 ratings
103.
Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music
Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music
by: Mark Katz
4.09 avg rating — 139 ratings
104.
Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped
Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped 3.69 avg rating — 324 ratings
105.
Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back
Free Ride: How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back 3.59 avg rating — 307 ratings
106.
The 21st Century Hip-Hop Minstrel Show: Are We Continuing the Blackface Tradition?
The 21st Century Hip-Hop Minstrel Show: Are We Continuing the Blackface Tradition? 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
107.
Philosophy and Hip-Hop: Ruminations on Postmodern Cultural Form
Philosophy and Hip-Hop: Ruminations on Postmodern Cultural Form 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
108.
Organic Globalizer, The: Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement Culture
Organic Globalizer, The: Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement Culture 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
109.
Know What I Mean? Reflections On Hip Hop
Know What I Mean? Reflections On Hip Hop 3.83 avg rating — 384 ratings
110.
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
111.
The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop
The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
112.
How to Rap 2: Advanced Flow and Delivery Techniques
How to Rap 2: Advanced Flow and Delivery Techniques 4.19 avg rating — 134 ratings
113.
Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My Generation and the Future of Our Super Movement
Please Don't Bomb the Suburbs: A Midterm Report on My Generation and the Future of Our Super Movement 3.88 avg rating — 91 ratings
114.
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
115.
The Tao of Wu
The Tao of Wu
by: The RZA
4.07 avg rating — 5,392 ratings
116.
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
117.
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop 4.08 avg rating — 180 ratings
118.
Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap 3.98 avg rating — 107 ratings
119.
Hip Hop in Houston:: The Origin and the Legacy
Hip Hop in Houston:: The Origin and the Legacy 3.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
120.
Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism
Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism 4.19 avg rating — 31 ratings
121.
Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization
Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization 3.48 avg rating — 112 ratings
122.
The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture
The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture 3.83 avg rating — 301 ratings
123.
The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture: Beneath the Surface
The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture: Beneath the Surface 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
124.
Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ
Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ
by: Mark Katz
4.29 avg rating — 42 ratings
125.
Hip Hop's Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement
Hip Hop's Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
126.
Rap and Hip Hop Culture
Rap and Hip Hop Culture 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
127.
Hip Hop's Amnesia: From Blues and the Black Women's Club Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Movement
Hip Hop's Amnesia: From Blues and the Black Women's Club Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Movement 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
128.
Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness
Hip Hop Desis: South Asian Americans, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
129.
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop
Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop 4.11 avg rating — 187 ratings
130.
Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music to Hollywood
Hiding in Hip Hop: On the Down Low in the Entertainment Industry--from Music to Hollywood 3.24 avg rating — 343 ratings
131.
Atlanta: Hip-Hop and the South
Atlanta: Hip-Hop and the South really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
132.
Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics
Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
133.
Desi Rap: Hip-Hop and South Asian America
Desi Rap: Hip-Hop and South Asian America
by: Ajay Nair
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
134.
Hip-Hop Homophobes: Origin & Attitudes TowardsGays & Lesbians in Hip Hop Culture; As Perpetuated by Rappers, Thugs, Athletes, Reggae Rastas & Religionists; Essays ...Against Homosexuality; A Religious Hoax!
Hip-Hop Homophobes: Origin & Attitudes TowardsGays & Lesbians in Hip Hop Culture; As Perpetuated by Rappers, Thugs, Athletes, Reggae Rastas & Religionists; Essays ...Against Homosexuality; A Religious Hoax! liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
135.
Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women
Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women 3.62 avg rating — 164 ratings
136.
Back in the Days
Back in the Days 4.55 avg rating — 194 ratings
137.
Enter The Wu-Tang: How Nine Men Changed Hip-Hop Forever
Enter The Wu-Tang: How Nine Men Changed Hip-Hop Forever 3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings
138.
Rhymin' and Stealin': Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop
Rhymin' and Stealin': Musical Borrowing in Hip-Hop really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
139.
The Dirty Version: On Stage, In the Studio, and In the Streets with Ol' Dirty Bastard
The Dirty Version: On Stage, In the Studio, and In the Streets with Ol' Dirty Bastard 3.48 avg rating — 231 ratings
140.
Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma
Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet: America's New Dilemma 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
141.
The Literary Genius of Lil Wayne: the case for Lil Wayne to be counted among Shakespeare and Dylan
The Literary Genius of Lil Wayne: the case for Lil Wayne to be counted among Shakespeare and Dylan 3.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
142.
The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop
The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop 3.95 avg rating — 38 ratings
143.
The Truth Behind Hip Hop
The Truth Behind Hip Hop 4.38 avg rating — 34 ratings
144.
Thug Life: Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop
Thug Life: Race, Gender, and the Meaning of Hip-Hop 3.94 avg rating — 47 ratings
145.
Hip Hop Underground: The Integrity and Ethics of Racial Identification
Hip Hop Underground: The Integrity and Ethics of Racial Identification 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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