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  • Bust a Move: Matt Dike, Delicious Vinyl, and the Hip-Hop Hits That First Conquered Pop by Relic, Peter
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    Peter Relic

    Bust a Move: Matt Dike, Delicious Vinyl, and the Hip-Hop Hits That First Conquered Pop

    Coast hip hop into the American mainstream and produced the hits that dominated the 80s through early 2000s, with previously unseen material, photos, and exclusive interviews - including the only in-depth, in-person interview with reclusive creator Matt Dike. In 1987, hip-hop was at a...
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  • Religion in Hip Hop by Miller, Monica R.
    Monica R. Miller

    Religion in Hip Hop

    Now a global and transnational phenomenon, hip hop culture continues to affect and be affected by the institutional, cultural, religious, social, economic and political landscape of American society and beyond. Over the past two decades, numerous disciplines have taken up hip hop culture for...
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  • This Thug's Life by Shakur, Mopreme
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    Mopreme Shakur

    This Thug's Life

    The first-ever insider account of the Shakur family, the iconic hip hop group T.H.U.G. L.I.F.E., and the life and death Tupac Shakur - written by Mopreme Shakur, the legendary rapper's big brother and eldest son of Black liberation activist Mutulu Shakur. Maurice. Little Mutulu....
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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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  • Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop by Pardue, D.
    D. Pardue

    Ideologies of Marginality in Brazilian Hip Hop

    Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazillian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in English...
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  • Hip Hop and Political Voice for Young South Sudanese Australians: Born to Stand Out by Williams, Sarah J.
    Sarah J. Williams

    Hip Hop and Political Voice for Young South Sudanese Australians: Born to Stand Out

    Hip Hop and Political Voice for Young South Sudanese Australians: Born to Stand Out explores the building of political voice of young South Sudanese Australians to resist racialising discourses, particularly through hip hop. Presented as an ethnography, Sarah J. Williams draws on empirical evidence...
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  • Brazilian Hip Hoppers Speak from the Margins: We's on Tape by Pardue, D.
    D. Pardue

    Brazilian Hip Hoppers Speak from the Margins: We's on Tape

    Based on more than five years of anthropological fieldwork in São Paulo, Brazil, this book highlights race, class, gender and territory to argue that Brazilian hip hoppers are subjects rather than objects of history and everyday life. This is the first ethnography in English...
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  • Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central by Lee, Jooyoung
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    Jooyoung Lee

    Blowin' Up: Rap Dreams in South Central

    Dr. Dre. Snoop Dogg. Ice Cube. Some of the biggest stars in hip hop made their careers in Los Angeles. And today there is a new generation of young, mostly black, men busting out rhymes and hoping to one day find themselves "blowin' up"--getting...
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  • The Hip Hop Sticker Book: 200+ Fresh Rap Stickers by Mark 563
    Mark 563

    The Hip Hop Sticker Book: 200+ Fresh Rap Stickers

    The Hip Hop Sticker Book is a must-have for all hip hop heads and sticker lovers! Featuring more than 200 fresh high-quality stickers, this book showcases amazing artwork by renowned artist Mark 563, capturing your favorite rappers in bold, unique illustrations. The exceptional collection...
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  • Baptized in Dirty Water: Reimagining the Gospel According to Tupac Amaru Shakur by White Hodge, Daniel
    Daniel White Hodge

    Baptized in Dirty Water: Reimagining the Gospel According to Tupac Amaru Shakur

    Tupac Amaru Shakur was considered a Hip Hop prophet. His spiritual journey has not had much attention given to it until now. This book looks at Tupac's gospel message from a Hip Hop context. Tupac presents a theological message needed now even twenty-plus years...
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  • Grime: Documenting the Scene's Rise and Reign by Keefe, Roony
    Roony Keefe

    Grime: Documenting the Scene's Rise and Reign

    Through archival material, experience the 140BPM beating heartbeat of grime as told by a pioneer of the scene - not just as a music genre, but as a living, breathing culture that continues to thrive, inspire, and boldly challenge the status quo. 'There are...
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  • Listen to Hip Hop!: Exploring a Musical Genre by Fonseca, Anthony J.
    Anthony J. Fonseca

    Listen to Hip Hop!: Exploring a Musical Genre

    With a focus on 50 defining artists, songs, and albums, Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of hip-hop music for scholars and fans of the genre.This title explores non-rap hip hop music, and as such it serves as a...
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  • Hip Hop Reader, The, a Longman Topics Reader by Strode, Tim
    Tim Strode

    Hip Hop Reader, The, a Longman Topics Reader

    Composition and hip hop may seem unrelated, but the connection isn't hard to make: Hip hop and rap rely on a complex of narrative practices that have clear ties to some of the best American essay writing. A Hip Hop Reader brings together work...
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  • Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime by Hancox, Dan
    Dan Hancox

    Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime

    A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018 'The definitive grime biography' NME 'A landmark genre history' Pitchfork The year 2000. As Britain celebrates the new millennium, something is stirring in the crumbling council estates of inner-city London....
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  • Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre by Fonseca, Anthony
    Anthony Fonseca

    Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre

    With a focus on 50 defining artists, songs, and albums, Listen to Hip Hop! Exploring a Musical Genre provides an overview of hip-hop music for scholars and fans of the genre. This title explores non-rap hip hop music, and as such it serves as...
    $63.00
    $63.00
    $63.00
  • 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...
    $29.99
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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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  • 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 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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