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Vendor: Amir Said
The BeatTips Manual: The Art of Beatmaking, The Hip Hop/Rap Music Tradition, and The Common Composer, 7th Edition: The Art of Beatmaking, The Hip Hop/
Out of the ruins of the South Bronx disaster came an artistically rich and deeply influential street culture: hip hop. From the start, hip hop coalesced around its music. Revered everywhere for its sound, style, force, rawness, and honesty, hip hop/rap music is one...- $64.95
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Run-DMC and Raising Hell: 40 Years
Take a deep dive into legendary hip-hop group Run-DMC's groundbreaking album, Raising Hell, on its 40th anniversary with this handsome slipcased celebration. In 1985, Queens, New York-based rap group Run-DMC teamed with heavy metal producer Rick Rubin to record their breakthrough album and one...- $50.00
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Vendor: Janelle Christine Simmons
Achieving Social Justice Through Music: Influence of Hip-Hop and Rap
Hip-hop and rap emerged as a powerful cultural response to systemic inequality, social displacement, and economic hardship. Rooted in artistic expression, storytelling, and resistance, hip-hop and rap became a means for marginalized voices to reclaim agency, shared lived experiences, and foster community identity. Their...- $120.00
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Vendor: Harris Rosen
The Real Eminem: Revelations of an American Original
A choice hardcover, THE REAL EMINEM is a lively authentic look at the most successful artist to debut after 1983 and the most successful rapper of all-time featuring 90+ unseen 1999 colour photos and 2 exclusive1999 interviews. Eminem outsold every artist across the globe...- $36.99
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The Real 213
Behind The Music Tales is a series which captures the mood and the feel of the energy that surged from music in the 90s and 2000s. It presents exclusive original interviews as an honest record, directly from authentic creative forces, and is a distinct...- $11.99
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Vendor: Harris Rosen
The Real Diddy
Behind the Music Tales is a series which captures the mood and feel of the energy that surged through music and pop culture in the 90s and 2000s. It presents exclusive original interviews as an honest record directly from authentic creative sources, and is...- $12.99
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Vendor: Jon Ivan Gill
Underground Rap as Religion: A Theopoetic Examination of a Process Aesthetic Religion
Underground rap is largely a subversive, grassroots, and revolutionary movement in underground hip-hop, tending to privilege creative freedom as well as progressive and liberating thoughts and actions. This book contends that many practitioners of underground rap have absorbed religious traditions and ideas, and implement,...- $56.99
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Vendor: Harris Rosen
Magnolia: Home of tha Soldiers: Exclusive interviews with the Hot Boys & Cash Money Millionaires
A riveting historical account of how two hustlers invested everything in one 10 years old and changed the music business, forever! Behind the Music Tales is a series which captures the mood and feel of the energy that surged through music in the 90s...- $19.99
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Vendor: Harris Rosen
N.W.a: The Aftermath: Exclusive Interviews with Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Jerry Heller, Yella & Westside Connection
[N.W.A Fans Only!] Astonishing facts revealed for the first time! #1 on Amazon U.S., Canada, France, Australia and Japan! For Decades Harris Rosen Has Been Asking Fearless Questions Of Hip-Hop's Biggest Names. N.W.A: The Aftermath collects many of his best interviews, which challenge and...- $10.99
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Vendor: Mickey Hess
Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide: [2 Volumes]
Thoroughly researched, thoroughly in tune with the culture, Hip Hop in America: A Regional Guide profiles two dozen specific hip hop scenes across the United States, showing how each place shaped a singular identity. Through its unique geographic perspective, it captures the astonishing diversity...- $191.00
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Vendor: Chuck D
In the Hour of Chaos: Art and Activism with Public Enemy's Chuck D Volume 6
A profound meditation on hip hop's transformative power, In the Hour of Chaos takes us deep into the mind of the genre's most unabashed revolutionary. This book is not an autobiography. It's not a manifesto. It's a razor-sharp investigation into hip hop and rap...- $24.95
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Vendor: Priya Parmar
Rebel Music: Resistance Through Hip Hop and Punk
Arising from the street corners and underground clubs, Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk, challenges standardized schooling and argues for equity, peace, and justice. Rebel Music is an important, one-of-a-kind book that takes readers through fun, radical, educational chapters examining Hip Hop...- $100.00
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Vendor: Nick J. Sciullo
Communicating Hip-Hop: How Hip-Hop Culture Shapes Popular Culture
This insightful analysis of the broad impact of hip-hop on popular culture examines the circulation of hip-hop through media, academia, business, law, and consumer culture to explain how hip-hop influences thought and action through our societal institutions. How has hip-hop influenced our culture beyond...- $55.00
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Hip-Hop within and without the Academy
As a platform for communicating the issues of marginalized peoples, hip-hop remains a universal, relevant art form. Moreover, hip-hop culture's affirmation of liberation pedagogy has great potential not only to address many current issues in educational contexts, but also to create more egalitarian ambitions...- $128.00
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Vendor: Erika D. Gault
Beyond Christian Hip Hop: A Move Towards Christians and Hip Hop
Christians and Christianity have been central to Hip Hop since its inception. This book explores the intersection of Christians and Hip Hop and the multiple outcomes of this intersection. It lays out the ways in which Christians and Hip Hop overlap and diverge. The...- $200.00
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Vendor: J. Griffith Rollefson
Flip the Script: European Hip Hop and the Politics of Postcoloniality
Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States it has been...- $99.00
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Vendor: Gustavo Souza Marques
Tyler the Creator's Remaking of Hip Hop: Transmedia Journeys Beyond Gangsta
An in-depth exploration of Tyler, The Creator's evolution as an artist and cultural force, positioning his audiovisual productions as a watershed in American hip hop. Through close analysis of his music videos, lyrics, and performances-as rapper, producer and director-it examines how Tyler redefines race,...- $120.00
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Vendor: Eric M. Esquivel
Tribute: DMX
"Tribute: DMX" is a gripping comic book biography that explores the tumultuous life and legendary career of rap icon DMX. From his troubled childhood in Yonkers, New York, to his rise to global fame, the comic delves into the raw emotions and struggles that...- $8.99
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Vendor: Mikaela Kasiala
Red Ink Is What I Think
Red Ink is What I Think - A Pulse-Pounding Urban Poetry Experience!Welcome to the rhythm of resilience. Red Ink is What I Think by Mikaela Kasiala is a bold, unfiltered urban poetry book that speaks directly to the soul of the streets. A powerful...- $13.99
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Vendor: Anthony Kwame Harrison
Hip Hop Underground: The Integrity and Ethics of Racial Identification
Race & authenticity in America is explored through the Bay Area's multiracial underground hip hop scene. Harrison shows how how various ethnic groups engage hip hop in divergent ways, as a means to both claim subcultural legitimacy & establish their racial authenticity.Author: Anthony Kwame...- $31.95
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Baring Unbearable Sensualities: Hip Hop Dance, Bodies, Race, and Power
Theorizing the experiences of Black and Brown bodies in Hip Hop danceShort Listed for the 2022 de la Torre Bueno(c) First Book AwardShort Listed for the 2022 Oscar G. Brockett Book Prize for Dance ResearchBaring Unbearable Sensualities brings together a bold methodology, an interdisciplinary...- $95.00
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Vendor: Loren Kajikawa
Sounding Race in Rap Songs
As one of the most influential and popular genres of the last three decades, rap has cultivated a mainstream audience and become a multimillion-dollar industry by promoting highly visible and often controversial representations of blackness. Sounding Race in Rap Songs argues that rap music...- $95.00
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Vendor: J. Griffith Rollefson
Critical Excess: Watch the Throne and the New Gilded Age
Jay-Z and Kanye West's 2011 Watch the Throne is a self-avowed "luxury rap" album centered on Eurocentric conceptions of nobility, artistry, and haute couture. Critical Excess performs a close reading of the sonic and social commentary on this album, examining how the album alternately...- $75.00
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Vendor: Richard L. Schur
Parodies of Ownership: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law
"Richard Schur offers a provocative view of contemporary African American cultural politics and the relationship between African American cultural production and intellectual property law."---Mark Anthony Neal, Duke University"Whites used to own blacks. Now, they accomplish much the same thing by insisting that they 'own'...- $29.95
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Vendor: Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith
Hip Hop Around the World: An Encyclopedia [2 Volumes]
Hip hop music has gone from being a marginalized genre in the late 1980s to the predominant style of music in America, the UK, Nigeria, South Africa, and other countries around the world. Hip Hop around the World includes more than 450 entries on...- $208.00
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Vendor: Daudi Abe
Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle
The first history of Seattle hip hop--and hip hop's role in Seattle historyFrom the first rap battles in Seattle's Central District to the Grammy stage, hip hop has shaped urban life and the music scene of the Pacific Northwest for more than four decades....- $110.00
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Vendor: Rollie Pemberton
Ways of Listening: Building a Deeper Relationship with Music in the Streaming Era
How has the internet changed the way we listen to, and love, the music that shapes our lives? Award-winning musician Rollie Pemberton (Cadence Weapon) interrogates our current musical landscape. Ways of Listening is a love letter to music, a sharp analysis of our current...- $25.00
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Vendor: Tosin Gbogi
Nigerian Hip-Hop: Race, Knowledge, and the Poetics of Resistance
Author: Tosin GbogiISBN-10: 0197782027ISBN-13: 9780197782026Publisher: Oxford University Press, USALanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/2025Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.88d- $132.00
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Vendor: Elaine B. Richardson
Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism: Volume 7
Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism presents a dynamic and much-needed fresh analysis of Black gendering and racialized sexualities in the sphere of Hip Hop. Editors Elaine B. Richardson, Gwendolyn D. Pough, and Treva B. Lindsey bring together established and rising scholars to...- $95.00
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Vendor: Chuck D
In the Hour of Chaos: Art and Activism with Public Enemy's Chuck D Volume 6
A profound meditation on hip hop's transformative power, In the Hour of Chaos takes us deep into the mind of the genre's most unabashed revolutionary. This book is not an autobiography. It's not a manifesto. It's a razor-sharp investigation into hip hop and rap...- $95.00
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Vendor: Jacqueline Springer
The Music Is Black: A British Story
Epic in scope and personal recollection, The Music is Black is the story of British imperial and colonial histories, the African diaspora, and contemporary British social history put into song Black British music has been the soundtrack to periods of profound political, social, cultural,...- $35.00
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Vendor: Tosin Gbogi
Nigerian Hip-Hop: Race, Knowledge, and the Poetics of Resistance
Author: Tosin GbogiISBN-10: 0197782035ISBN-13: 9780197782033Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/2025Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.14w x 0.78d- $39.99
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Vendor: Micah Bournes
Don't Look Away
Returning from poetry to music, this collection is a song by song breakdown of Micah Bournes' hip hop protest album, "Til We All Free." Examining and exploring each track on the album, Micah offers insights into what is behind each song. Times is heavy,...- $19.99
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Vendor: Myrtle D. Millares
Hip-Hop Style and Identity in Toronto: Music Pedagogy from the Cypher
What happens when Hip-Hop's African American origin story travels around the world and lands in Toronto, Ontario, Canada?Set amidst Toronto's increasingly inter-cultural communities, B-boy Jazzy Jester, MC LolaBunz, and DJ Ariel detail the trajectories of their artistic development, honoring Hip-Hop's translocated history while remixing...- $120.00
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Vendor: Jj Hoces
Legends of Rap: 15 Masters of the Verse
Legends of Rap: 15 Masters of the Verse is a journey through the living history of a genre that has transformed music and culture for over five decades. This book doesn't seek to rank artists or crown idols, but rather to offer a close...- $19.95
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Vendor: Elaine B. Richardson
Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism: Volume 7
Hip Hop Studies and Queer Black Feminism presents a dynamic and much-needed fresh analysis of Black gendering and racialized sexualities in the sphere of Hip Hop. Editors Elaine B. Richardson, Gwendolyn D. Pough, and Treva B. Lindsey bring together established and rising scholars to...- $29.95
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Vendor: Sheena C. Howard
Hip-Hop and Comics
Contributions by Lea Beka, Collin M. Bright, Justin D Burton, Amy Chu, John P. Craig, Michael B. Norton Dando, Jayanti Datta, Brea M. Heidelberg, Kathryn Hobson, Sheena C. Howard, Johnny Jones, Riggs Morales, Spenser Nellis, Patrick A. Reed, Michael Sales, Daniel Silver, Matthew Teutsch,...- $25.00
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Vendor: Sheena C. Howard
Hip-Hop and Comics
Contributions by Lea Beka, Collin M. Bright, Justin D Burton, Amy Chu, John P. Craig, Michael B. Norton Dando, Jayanti Datta, Brea M. Heidelberg, Kathryn Hobson, Sheena C. Howard, Johnny Jones, Riggs Morales, Spenser Nellis, Patrick A. Reed, Michael Sales, Daniel Silver, Matthew Teutsch,...- $110.00
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Vendor: Christopher Malone
The Organic Globalizer: Hip Hop, Political Development, and Movement Culture
The Organic Globalizer is a collection of critical essays which takes the position that hip-hop holds political significance through an understanding of its ability to at once raise cultural awareness, expand civil society's focus on social and economic justice through institution building, and engage...- $39.95
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Vendor: Neil Kulkarni
The Periodic Table of Hip Hop
Welcome to The Periodic Table of Hip Hop. Instead of hydrogen to helium, here you'll find James Brown to Kanye West - 94 artists that have defined Hip Hop arranged following the logic of The Periodic Table of Elements. MCs, DJs, rappers and producers...- $33.99
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Vendor: Ian Maxwell
Phat Beats, Dope Rhymes
How Aussies came to belong to the hip-hop nation.Ian Maxwell's sophisticated story of Australia's hip-hop scene follows the lives of a small, influential group of rappers from Sydney's Westside in the early 1990s. Maxwell conveys the excitement of the scene and the struggles of...- $26.95
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Vendor: A. D. Carson
Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory Through Mixtape Memoir
Author: A. D. CarsonISBN-10: 0197772668ISBN-13: 9780197772669Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2025Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.10d- $29.99
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Being Dope: Hip Hop and Theory Through Mixtape Memoir
Author: A. D. CarsonISBN-10: 019777265XISBN-13: 9780197772652Publisher: Oxford University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2025Pages: 432Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.73lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.13d- $125.00
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Vendor: Khaliq Glover
Hypnotic Music Secrets: How The Stars Make Music IRRESISTIBLE!
"Hypnotic Music Secrets" is written by Grammy award-winning engineer/producer Khaliq Glover also known as Khaliq-O-Vision based on his vast experience of working with the world's top recording artists. Some of his clients include Michael Jackson, Prince, Herbie Hancock, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Marcus Miller,...- $14.95
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Vendor: Priya Parmar
Rebel Music: Resistance Through Hip Hop and Punk
Arising from the street corners and underground clubs, Rebel Music: Resistance through Hip Hop and Punk, challenges standardized schooling and argues for equity, peace, and justice. Rebel Music is an important, one-of-a-kind book that takes readers through fun, radical, educational chapters examining Hip Hop...- $55.64
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Vendor: Liam Inscoe-Jones
Songs in the Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age
Author: Liam Inscoe-JonesISBN-10: 1399609637ISBN-13: 9781399609630Publisher: White RabbitLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2026Pages: 368Format: Paperback- $28.00
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Vendor: Aaron Nemec
Obsessed with Bass: The Essential History of Miami Bass, 1985-1993
Late one Miami night in 1985, Amos Larkins II was mixing "Commin' In Fresh" by Double Duce while also partying in the studio with a stripper. He was so distracted he forgot to review the levels before sending the track for mastering. The next...- $4.95
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Vendor: Bryan J. McCann
The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-On-Crime Era
Illustrates the ways that the "war on crime" became conjoined--aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically--with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hop In The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era, Bryan J. McCann...- $24.95
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Vendor: Dan Lish
Egostrip Book 2
Egostrip Book 2 is a beautifully designed, expansive continuation of Dan Lish's visionary character illustrations that pay homage to the vibrant world of Hip Hop and beyond. This stunning collection features over 170 illustrations, paintings, and murals that capture the essence of Hip Hop's...- $65.00
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Vendor: Nancy S. Love
Anthems: Community, Land, and Song
An examination of struggles for national sovereignty and social justice as seen through patriotic anthems and songs of resistance.Anthems are songs of loyalty and devotion with religious or quasi-religious meanings, typically associated with nation-states. Singing patriotic songs together encourages a sense of shared identity...- $34.95
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