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  • The Cambridge Companion to Global Rap by Bramwell, Richard
    Richard Bramwell

    The Cambridge Companion to Global Rap

    Rap has remapped the way we think about music. For more than fifty years its poetics, performance and political power has resonated across the globe. This Companion offers an array of perspectives on the form, from the fields of sociology, linguistics, musicology, psychology, literary...
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  • The History of Hip Hop: Quiz Book by Reese, Eric
    Eric Reese

    The History of Hip Hop: Quiz Book

    Think you know hip hop? Here's your test to prove it.From the birth of the culture in the Bronx to today's viral global hits, this is the ultimate test for true heads, crate diggers, and anyone who lives and breathes hip hop. Packed with...
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  • Remember the Times: A Memoir by Riley, Teddy
    Teddy Riley

    Remember the Times: A Memoir

    Grammy Award-winning R&B and hip-hop legend Teddy Riley recounts his journey from growing up in the projects in Harlem to inventing the genre New Jack Swing, selling out shows at Madison Square Garden, and creating music for Michael Jackson, Snoop Dogg, Pharrell, and more....
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  • The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred by Winters, Joseph R.
    Joseph R. Winters

    The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred

    In The Disturbing Profane, Joseph R. Winters explores how hip hop's religiosity is found in qualities associated with the dark sacred. Rather than purity and wholeness, this expression of the sacred signifies death and pleasure, opacity and contamination, exorbitance and anguish. Winters brings religious...
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  • The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred by Winters, Joseph R.
    Joseph R. Winters

    The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred

    In The Disturbing Profane, Joseph R. Winters explores how hip hop's religiosity is found in qualities associated with the dark sacred. Rather than purity and wholeness, this expression of the sacred signifies death and pleasure, opacity and contamination, exorbitance and anguish. Winters brings religious...
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  • Hip-Hop Rivalries: East Coast Versus West Coast by Nji, Njasang
    Njasang Nji

    Hip-Hop Rivalries: East Coast Versus West Coast

    "... the author details how various hip-hop feuds began and ended and analyzes the lyrics of the dis tracks that resulted from them." - Library JournalIt was the best of times, it was the worst of times.In A Tale of Two Cities, the duality...
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  • I'm Looking for T.I.: Dreams II Reality by Jackson, Corey Corey J.
    Corey Corey J. Jackson

    I'm Looking for T.I.: Dreams II Reality

    Meet Corey J., A young man born into poverty on the North Side of Jackson Mississippi, with big Dreams and a vision to turn those dreams into a reality. In this compelling story, Corey J. details how he didn't let being raised in the...
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  • The Essentials of Hip-Hop Drumming: Master The Art of Breakbeats, New Jack Swing, Boom Bap, Drunk Grooves & Trap by Grondona, Giuseppe
    Giuseppe Grondona

    The Essentials of Hip-Hop Drumming: Master The Art of Breakbeats, New Jack Swing, Boom Bap, Drunk Grooves & Trap

    Master the Art of Hip-Hop Drumming and Play with Authentic GrooveDo your hip-hop grooves sound stiff and mechanical? Struggling to capture the feel of Dilla Time and unquantized beats? Want to make your acoustic drumming sound like an MPC or 808?The Essentials of Hip-Hop...
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  • In My Remaining Years by Grae, Jean
    Jean Grae

    In My Remaining Years

    A collection of darkly humorous, intensely personal essays by cult fave and multi-hyphenate artist Jean Grae In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae, debunks the myth that coming-of-age narratives should be reserved for the kids, providing a much-needed rallying cry for those...
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  • Pro Tools for Film and Video by Angell, Dale
    Dale Angell

    Pro Tools for Film and Video

    This step-by-step guide for editing sound to picture using Pro Tools starts by explaining the Pro Tools systems and covers all key audio topics, including equipment, sound, music, effects, output and mixing tools, to give users the skills needed to work on any project...
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  • Verbal Imagery: Transcendental Industry by Wade the Wordsmith
    Wade the Wordsmith

    Verbal Imagery: Transcendental Industry

    You've just found a lyric pulse. It's a monumental discovery. A living, breathing, noted, literature specie able to work beyond the five natural senses of physical beings. A grammar entity with a transcendent dialect communicated in a fluent flow of sentences, phrases, verses, choruses...
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  • Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic by Neblett, Seth
    Seth Neblett

    Mothership Connected: The Women of Parliament-Funkadelic

    An oral history with the women of Parliament-Funkadelic, from forming the band to landing the mothership. Parliament-Funkadelic is perhaps the greatest funk band ever assembled. Yet at the time of the group's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, none of the...
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  • Bleep! Censoring Rock and Rap Music by Lauchli, Andre
    Andre Lauchli

    Bleep! Censoring Rock and Rap Music

    Examining the various boundaries of American artistic tolerance, chapters address the societal and legal responses to rock and rap music. Artistic expression has historically clashed with mainstream views, resulting in apprehension acted upon internally and externally, especially when expression is aimed toward children or...
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  • Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World de la Soul Made by McCoy, Austin
    Austin McCoy

    Living in a D.A.I.S.Y. Age: The Music, Culture, and World de la Soul Made

    Author: Austin McCoyISBN-10: 1668047942ISBN-13: 9781668047941Publisher: Atria/One Signal PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.99d
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  • Sonita: My Fight Against Tyranny and My Escape to Freedom by Alizada, Sonita
    Sonita Alizada

    Sonita: My Fight Against Tyranny and My Escape to Freedom

    Nearly 15 million girls, including many in the U.S., are forced into marriage each year. Each of these girls has a price tag--and a story. Sonita Alizada was almost sold twice. Her price tag was $9,000. The money her family received for selling her...
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  • Words 2 by Kayser, Brian
    Brian Kayser

    Words 2

    This collection of in-depth interviews features hip-hop legends Jaz-O, Inspectah Deck, Murs, Killah Priest, Big Sean, Large Professor, RZA, J. Cole, Poison Pen, Diamond D, O.C., Ron Browz, Agallah, J-Zone, and Cormega. These interviews were conducted between 2005-2016. "I like my interviews to be...
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  • Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity by Krims, Adam
    Adam Krims

    Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity

    This is the first book to discuss in detail how rap music is put together musically. Whereas a great deal of popular music scholarship dismisses music analysis as irrelevant or of limited value, the present book argues that it can be crucial to cultural...
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  • Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production by Campbell, Mark V.
    Mark V. Campbell

    Hip-Hop Archives: The Politics and Poetics of Knowledge Production

    Explores multiple aspects of hip-hop archives in a global context, including methods of accumulation, curation, preservation, and digitization. This collection critically analyzes institutional power, geopolitical influences and the ideological implications associated with hip-hop culture's tensions with dominant social values. 16 b/w illus. New Books...
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  • On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland by Werth, Alex
    Alex Werth

    On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland

    How struggles over Black sound have shaped Oakland's culture, politics, and geography. Chicago has house. Detroit has techno. But Oakland slaps. On Loop explores the role of Black dance music and sonic politics in recurring struggles over race and space in Oakland, California. Insisting...
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  • Kool Keith: The Krossover Into the Flower Kosmic by Ryan, Seamus Esoteric
    Seamus Esoteric Ryan

    Kool Keith: The Krossover Into the Flower Kosmic

    Author: Seamus Esoteric RyanISBN-13: 9798886562033Publisher: Z2 ComicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/29/2025Pages: 100Format: Hardcover
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  • The History of Hip Hop: Worldwide by Reese, Eric
    Eric Reese

    The History of Hip Hop: Worldwide

    The spray cans hissed. The turntables screamed. And suddenly, hip hop wasn't borrowed-it was reborn.This unflinching global tour smashes the myth of hip hop's "American-ness," exposing how Tokyo's B-boys, Lagos's rhyme assassins, and Marseille's graffiti guerrillas hijacked the culture and made it ferociously their...
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  • Da Baddest by Trina
    Trina

    Da Baddest

    The award-winning, platinum-selling rapper, songwriter, and television personality shares her "open and revealing account" (Neil Martinez-Belkin, New York Times bestselling author) of coming of age in Miami, her unstoppable ascent to music stardom, and her lasting impact as a legendary figure in the hip-hop...
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  • TheFreshFinds Magazine 2025 Vol.1 by Gilbert, Natalee
    Natalee Gilbert

    TheFreshFinds Magazine 2025 Vol.1

    TheFreshFinds Magazine is your go-to destination for discovering the hottest emerging talent in music, fashion, and culture. Dedicated to spotlighting rising artists, trendsetters, and creative innovators, we deliver in-depth interviews, exclusive features, and cutting-edge reviews that keep you ahead of the curve. Whether it's...
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  • These Are the Breaks! by Delgado, Lino
    Lino Delgado

    These Are the Breaks!

    Discover the extraordinary life of Lino "Lean Rock" Delgado-world-renowned DJ, international breaking champion, and acclaimed music producer-celebrated with official commendations by both the state of Massachusetts and the city of Boston in 2021.THESE ARE THE BREAKS! offers an intimate glimpse into the world of...
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  • Red Ink Is What I Think by Kasiala, Mikaela
    Mikaela Kasiala

    Red Ink Is What I Think

    Red Ink is What I Think - A Pulse-Pounding Urban Poetry Experience! Dive into Mikaela Kasiala's electrifying collection of urban poetry, where words dance to the rhythm of the streets. Blending sharp wordplay, powerful storytelling, and raw emotion, this book brings the energy of...
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  • The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast by Fernando, S. H.
    S. H. Fernando

    The Chronicles of Doom: Unraveling Rap's Masked Iconoclast

    A Variety best music book of 2024A FLOOD best music book of 2024A Clash best music book of 2024A Mother Jones best book of 2024 "In a career and life full of fictions, the truth--as this excellent, detailed biography makes clear--was often as mind-boggling...
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  • If My Life Were A Song: A Memoir by Jones, Isaac E.
    Isaac E. Jones

    If My Life Were A Song: A Memoir

    From the Appalachian foothills of Chattanooga, Tennessee, to the turbulent streets of Watts, Los Angeles, If My Life Were A Song takes you on a gripping journey of survival, resilience, and redemption. This memoir delves into the life of a young boy growing up...
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  • If My Life Were A Song: A Memoir by Jones, Isaac E.
    Isaac E. Jones

    If My Life Were A Song: A Memoir

    From the Appalachian foothills of Chattanooga, Tennessee, to the turbulent streets of Watts, Los Angeles, If My Life Were A Song takes you on a gripping journey of survival, resilience, and redemption. This memoir delves into the life of a young boy growing up...
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  • Sound of Silence by Ghnassia, Anthony
    Anthony Ghnassia

    Sound of Silence

    An unprecedented encounter with international music icons through the lens of photographer and director Anthony Ghnassia. For years, Ghnassia has turned his camera on world-renowned artists (David Guetta, Pharrell Williams, DJ Snake, Justice, PNL), accompanying them on tour. While audiences are dazzled by electrifying...
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  • Make Rappers Rap Again: Interrogating the Mumble Rap Crisis by Lewis, Heidi R.
    Heidi R. Lewis

    Make Rappers Rap Again: Interrogating the Mumble Rap Crisis

    In Make Rappers Rap Again: Interrogating the Mumble Rap "Crisis," author Heidi R. Lewis interrogates the ways Mumble Rap has been subjugated within real Hip Hop. Many critics claim mumble rappers are ignorant about Hip Hop history, disrespectful toward their Hip Hop elders, too...
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  • Islamic Themes in Us Hip-Hop Culture by Ackfeldt, Anders
    Anders Ackfeldt

    Islamic Themes in Us Hip-Hop Culture

    Islam has been a part of hip-hop culture since it sprang from New York's street culture in the 1970s. Today hip-hop has evolved into a truly global artform with a diversity of Muslim Islamic discourses expressed. Using tools from the field of social semiotics,...
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  • On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland by Werth, Alex
    Alex Werth

    On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland

    How struggles over Black sound have shaped Oakland's culture, politics, and geography. Chicago has house. Detroit has techno. But Oakland slaps. On Loop explores the role of Black dance music and sonic politics in recurring struggles over race and space in Oakland, California. Insisting...
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  • Clash of the Titans: 50 Cent vs. Ja Rule - Power, Pride, and the War That Changed Hip-Hop by Rhames, Jordan
    Jordan Rhames

    Clash of the Titans: 50 Cent vs. Ja Rule - Power, Pride, and the War That Changed Hip-Hop

    In the early 2000s, two men from Queens, New York turned a personal vendetta into the most infamous war in hip-hop history.Clash of the Titans: 50 Cent vs. Ja Rule - Power, Pride, and the War That Changed Hip-Hop dives into the story of...
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  • JELLY Roll BIOGRAPHY: The untold story of roll struggles and success by Ishau, Kadara
    Kadara Ishau

    JELLY Roll BIOGRAPHY: The untold story of roll struggles and success

    Jelly Roll Biography: The Untold Story of Roll - Struggles and SuccessJelly Roll's rise from the streets of Nashville to the top of the music charts is a raw, real, and remarkable journey. The Untold Story of Roll: Struggles and Success offers an intimate...
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  • Cypress Hill: Black Sunday by Callahan-Bever, Noah
    Noah Callahan-Bever

    Cypress Hill: Black Sunday

    Author: Noah Callahan-Bever, Gabriel AlvarezISBN-13: 9798886561494Publisher: Z2 ComicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2025Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbs
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  • The History of Hip Hop: Worldwide by Reese, Eric
    Eric Reese

    The History of Hip Hop: Worldwide

    Author: Eric ReeseISBN-13: 9798230238058Publisher: Eric ReeseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2025Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.57d
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  • The City of Hip-Hop: New York City, the Bronx, and a Peace Meeting by Swift, Rob
    Rob Swift

    The City of Hip-Hop: New York City, the Bronx, and a Peace Meeting

    The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was a combination of forces that produced the environment for Hip-Hop to specifically grow in the geographies of New York City and its boroughs. This book argues it was...
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  • Gritty City: An Oral History of Winnipeg Hip-Hop Music: 1980-2005 by Webber, Nigel
    Nigel Webber

    Gritty City: An Oral History of Winnipeg Hip-Hop Music: 1980-2005

    Gritty City is a love letter to Winnipeg, a prairie metropolis born out of rebellion, a river city marooned in the middle of a continent. Maybe there is something in the water that makes us different... Gritty City is the first book to tackle...
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  • 50 Years of Hip-Hop Business by Cash, Ash
    Ash Cash

    50 Years of Hip-Hop Business

    In "50 Years of Hip-Hop Business: Reclaiming the Beat; The Journey from Exploitation to Empowerment," we embark on a captivating journey through the heart and soul of hip-hop, where rhythm, rhyme, and business acumen have converged to shape a multi-billion-dollar industry.This book delves into...
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  • Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture Volume 1 by Villegas, Mark R.
    Mark R. Villegas

    Manifest Technique: Hip Hop, Empire, and Visionary Filipino American Culture Volume 1

    An obscured vanguard in hip hop Filipino Americans have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the culture's early days. But despite the success of artists like Apl.de.Ap of the Black Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo, the genre's significance in Filipino...
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  • I Was Slept On by Waller, Trashon Tray Plus
    Trashon Tray Plus Waller

    I Was Slept On

    I pray this book about my life inspires and motivates others to keep pushing. I was born and raised in Cocoa, Florida (Brevard County). While chasing my dreams in a small city I had to overcome a lot of obstacles. My vision was too...
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  • Diva: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop by Halligan, Benjamin
    Benjamin Halligan

    Diva: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop

    The diva - a central figure in the landscape of contemporary popular culture: gossip-generating, scandal-courting, paparazzi-stalked. And yet the diva is at the epicentre of creative endeavours that resonate with contemporary feminist ideas, kick back against diminished social expectations, boldly call-out casual sexism and...
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  • Sonita: My Fight Against Tyranny and My Escape to Freedom by Alizada, Sonita
    Sonita Alizada

    Sonita: My Fight Against Tyranny and My Escape to Freedom

    Nearly 15 million girls, including many in the U.S., are forced into marriage each year. Each of these girls has a price tag--and a story. Sonita Alizada was almost sold twice. Her price tag was $9,000. The money her family received for selling her...
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  • Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic by El Zein, Rayya
    Rayya El Zein

    Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic

    When asked what drew them to experimental Arabic-language rap, performers and fans shared a common refrain: various artists or tracks "filled their head" ('abba rasshom), offering relief from their dissatisfaction, cynicism, resignation, and disgust with contemporary politics and society. Based on ethnographic research in...
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  • Rayya El Zein

    Filling the Head: Listening to Rap in Arabic

    When asked what drew them to experimental Arabic-language rap, performers and fans shared a common refrain: various artists or tracks "filled their head" ('abba rasshom), offering relief from their dissatisfaction, cynicism, resignation, and disgust with contemporary politics and society. Based on ethnographic research in...
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  • African American Jazz and Rap: Social and Philosophical Examinations of Black Expressive Behavior by Conyers, James L.
    James L. Conyers

    African American Jazz and Rap: Social and Philosophical Examinations of Black Expressive Behavior

    Music is an expressive voice of a culture, often more so than literature. While jazz and rap are musical genres popular among people of numerous racial and social backgrounds, they are truly important historically for their representation of and impact upon African American culture...
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  • The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture: Beneath the Surface by Peterson, J.
    J. Peterson

    The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture: Beneath the Surface

    The underground is a multi-faceted concept in African American culture. Peterson uses Richard Wright, KRS-One, Thelonius Monk, and the tradition of the Underground Railroad to explore the manifestations and the attributes of the underground within the context of a more panoramic picture of African...
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  • Independent as F***: Underground Hip-Hop from 1995-2005 by Pedroche, Ben
    Ben Pedroche

    Independent as F***: Underground Hip-Hop from 1995-2005

    For a glorious ten-year period from 1995 to 2005, hip-hop music received a much-needed shot in the arm from a generation of determined and wildly creative rappers and producers. They rallied against the increasingly formulaic and shallow world of mainstream rap, as well as...
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  • Murder Dog The Covers Vol. 1 by Bone, Black Dog
    Black Dog Bone

    Murder Dog The Covers Vol. 1

    Over The Edge and Murder Dog have joined forces and we are re-purposing and releasing some of their amazing premium content. Murder Dog the number one Hip Hop publication for underground Hip Hop for over twenty years has a treasure trove full of Hip...
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  • Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur by Pearlman, Jeff
    Jeff Pearlman

    Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur

    New York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman turns his sharp eye and meticulous storytelling to one of pop culture's most enduring and enigmatic figures--Tupac Shakur--presenting the definitive retelling of his life, complete with explosive new details. Scrutinized in life, mythologized in death, Tupac Shakur...
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