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  • Her Word Is Bond: Navigating Hip Hop and Relationships in a Culture of Misogyny by Bowen, Cristalle Psalm One
    Cristalle Psalm One Bowen

    Her Word Is Bond: Navigating Hip Hop and Relationships in a Culture of Misogyny

    Her Word is Bond recounts the triumphs and setbacks of a rap legend who blazed a new trail for women in hip hop.Author: Cristalle Psalm One BowenISBN-10: 1642595039ISBN-13: 9781642595031Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2022Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d
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  • Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City by Smalls, Shanté Paradigm
    Shanté Paradigm Smalls

    Hip Hop Heresies: Queer Aesthetics in New York City

    Winner of the 2022-2023 New York City Book Awards! SPECIAL MENTION, 2023 IASPM Book Prize, given by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music SHORTLISTED, 2023 Ralph J. Gleason Book Award, given by the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame/Clive Davis InstituteUnearths...
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  • Geto Boys' the Geto Boys by Potts, Rolf
    Rolf Potts

    Geto Boys' the Geto Boys

    At the outset of summer in 1990, a Houston gangsta rap group called the Geto Boys was poised to debut its self-titled third album under the guidance of hip-hop guru Rick Rubin. What might have been a low-profile remix release from a little-known corner...
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  • Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ by Katz, Mark
    Mark Katz

    Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ

    It's all about the scratch in Groove Music, award-winning music historian Mark Katz's groundbreaking book about the figure that defined hip-hop: the DJ. Today hip-hop is a global phenomenon, and the sight and sound of DJs mixing and scratching is familiar in every corner...
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  • Gangster Doodles by Sassy, Marlon
    Marlon Sassy

    Gangster Doodles

    A collectible, four-color illustrated A-Z treasury of gangster rappers, the hip-hop high-life, and notorious pop culture history, told through a series of graphic doodles on 3" x 3" sticky notes.Four years ago, a Post-it(R) note changed Marlon Sassy's life. Using office supplies "borrowed" from...
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  • First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game by Simmons, Nadirah
    Nadirah Simmons

    First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game

    This enlightening book reframes the history of hip-hop--and this time, women are given credit for all their trailblazing achievements that have left an undeniable impact on music. FIRST THINGS FIRST, hip-hop is not just the music, and women have played a big role in...
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  • Diva: Feminism and Fierceness from Pop to Hip-Hop by Fairclough, Kirsty
    Kirsty Fairclough

    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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  • Don't Sweat the Technique: A Performer's Guide to Hip-Hop and Rap by Foster, Melissa L.
    Melissa L. Foster

    Don't Sweat the Technique: A Performer's Guide to Hip-Hop and Rap

    Don't Sweat the Technique equips aspiring performers with the tools and knowledge needed to become a better rapper. Written in easy-to-understand language, this book helps build techniques and unlocks solutions to common stumbling blocks. It includes exclusive advice from dozens of MCs who give...
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  • Faces of Rap Mothers by Collins, Jeffrey
    Jeffrey Collins

    Faces of Rap Mothers

    This is "Faces of Rap Mothers Book One", which originally released fall of 2019 and was re-editioned February of 2020 - the original layout and design was 100% restructured and chapters re-engineered with new cover design as well (minor alterations). This is the book...
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  • Dvs Mindz: The Twenty-Year Saga of the Greatest Rap Group to Almost Make It Outta Kansas by Harkness, Geoffrey Victor
    Geoff Harkness

    Dvs Mindz: The Twenty-Year Saga of the Greatest Rap Group to Almost Make It Outta Kansas

    99.9% of aspiring rappers never make it in the music industry. So why do we only hear the stories of the ones who do? DVS Mindz might be the greatest rap group you've never heard of. Formed in Topeka, Kansas, in the mid-1990s, they...
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  • Dead or Alive? The Mystery of Tupac Shakur: Volume 1 The Alive Theories by Doe, John
    John Doe

    Dead or Alive? The Mystery of Tupac Shakur: Volume 1 The Alive Theories

    Too many questions, not enough answers. Dead or Alive is based on the mind blowing mystery of the legendary Tupac Shakur. Although it has been seven years since Tupac's death, the mystery still remains. Many of unanswered questions are still on the minds of...
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  • Dvs Mindz: The Twenty-Year Saga of the Greatest Rap Group to Almost Make It Outta Kansas by Harkness, Geoffrey Victor
    Geoff Harkness

    Dvs Mindz: The Twenty-Year Saga of the Greatest Rap Group to Almost Make It Outta Kansas

    99.9% of aspiring rappers never make it in the music industry. So why do we only hear the stories of the ones who do? DVS Mindz might be the greatest rap group you've never heard of. Formed in Topeka, Kansas, in the mid-1990s, they...
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  • Do Remember!: The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes by Auerbach, Evan
    Evan Auerbach

    Do Remember!: The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes

    Do Remember! The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes is the first comprehensive deep-dive oral and visual history of the golden era of hip-hop mixtape culture in New York City. From street corners to corner offices, mixtapes made a huge impact on the music...
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  • Dr. Dre by Borgmeyer, John
    John Borgmeyer

    Dr. Dre

    It is almost impossible to listen to a current hip-hop song that does not bear Dr. Dre's influence. With innovations in style that started with the hip-hop group N.W.A., and, later, as a solo rapper and producer, Dre's influence and lasting impact on hip-hop...
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  • Cross Stitch or Die Tryin': 30 Patterns for Hip Hop Lovers by Blandford, Kate
    Kate Blandford

    Cross Stitch or Die Tryin': 30 Patterns for Hip Hop Lovers

    Filled with the illest cross stitch patterns with a hip hop twist, Cross Stitch or Die Tryin' is a must for all crafty hip hop fans. Whether you're living the thug life or bringing da ruckus, as long as you've still got love for...
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  • Does God Listen to Rap? Christians and the World's Most Controversial Music by Allen, Curtis Voice
    Curtis Voice Allen

    Does God Listen to Rap? Christians and the World's Most Controversial Music

    A lot of people think that if there is one style of music in the world that God hates, it has got to be rap. Some have even gone so far as to call rap, "An unclean thing before the Lord." They don't believe...
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  • Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Charnas, Dan
    Dan Charnas

    Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

    It's Dilla Time. Finally. Dilla Time is the story of the invention of a new kind of time, a new kind of sound by the most influential music producer of the last 25 years, someone you may never heard of: J. Dilla. He's revered...
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  • Cross the Tracks: A Memoir by Badazz, Boosie
    Boosie Badazz

    Cross the Tracks: A Memoir

    From one of rap's most evocative writers comes a stirring memoir and "masterpiece of a book" (Snoop Dogg) about how Boosie Badazz, one of the industry's most controversial figures, was able to overcome insurmountable odds to make his music dreams a reality. A Baton...
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  • Eminem and Rap, Poetry, Race: Essays by Parker, Scott F.
    Scott F. Parker

    Eminem and Rap, Poetry, Race: Essays

    Eminem is the best-selling musical artist of the 21st century. He is also one of the most contentious and most complex artists of our time. His verbal dexterity ranks him among the greatest technical rappers ever. The content of his songs combines the grotesque...
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  • Follow for Now, Volume 2: More Interviews with Friends and Heroes by Christopher, Roy
    Roy Christopher

    Follow for Now, Volume 2: More Interviews with Friends and Heroes

    Follow for Now, Vol. 2 picks up and pushes beyond the first volume with a more diverse set of interviewees and interviews. The intent of the first collection was to bring together voices from across disciplines, to cross-pollinate ideas. At the time, social media...
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  • E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX by DMX
    DMX

    E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography of DMX

    Raised in the ghetto, abandoned as a child, addicted to drugs and women all his life but still able to produce four consecutive #1 hip-hop albums in a row...this is the life and times of the darkest and most dangerously introspective hip-hop artist ever--at...
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  • Decoded by Jay-Z
    Jay-Z

    Decoded

    Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.Praise for Decoded "Compelling...
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  • Czarface: A Czar Is Born by Ryan, Seamus Aka MC Esoteric
    Seamus Aka MC Esoteric Ryan

    Czarface: A Czar Is Born

    CZARFACE'S ULTIMATE ORIGIN REVEALED Hero to some, villain to others, Czarface's true origins have remained a mystery...UNTIL NOW Who are the Zarta Ku? And why has their desperate mission brought them to Planet Earth? Meanwhile, Zach and his dog were just a washed up...
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  • F*ck, That's Delicious: An Annotated Guide to Eating Well by Bronson, Action
    Action Bronson

    F*ck, That's Delicious: An Annotated Guide to Eating Well

    Winner of the IACP Cookbook Design Award, this New York Times bestseller is a shout to the heavens rally cry about loving food from Action Bronson, "one of the internet's most entertaining food personalities" (GQ) and James Beard Award-winning food writer Rachel Wharton. This...
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  • Decoded by Jay-Z
    Jay-Z

    Decoded

    Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.Praise for Decoded "Compelling...
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  • Cypress Hill Tres Equis by Callahan-Bever, Noah
    Noah Callahan-Bever

    Cypress Hill Tres Equis

    Cypress Hill is considered the first-ever Latin American hip hop group, and has sold over 20 million albums to date, with this graphic novel release timed to their 30th anniversary and activities and merchandise planned around it Graphic novel traces the group's origins back...
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  • Flatbush Zombies - 3001: A Prequel Odyssey by Markman, Rob
    Rob Markman

    Flatbush Zombies - 3001: A Prequel Odyssey

    A Prequle to Flatbush Zombies' 2016 debut LP, 3001: A Laced Oddyssey The official prequel to the Flatbush Zombies' debut album. Erick, Meech, and Juice were just three friends from Flatbush with the power to really move a crowd--until a supernatural crystal changed everything!...
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  • Dark Story of Eminem (Updated Edition) by Hasted, Nick
    Nick Hasted

    Dark Story of Eminem (Updated Edition)

    An updated edition of the best-selling biography of the unique and uncompromising Slim Shady. From his roots in a racially divided Detroit, through his work Dr. Dre and The Bass Brothers, to his position as a dominant cultural force and headline-grabber, the story of...
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  • For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice by Bonnette-Bailey, Lakeyta
    Lakeyta Bonnette-Bailey

    For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice

    For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice documents and analyzes the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse approaches and methods, the contributors in this volume demonstrate...
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  • Dr. DRE in the Studio: From Compton, Death Row, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, the Game and Mad Money - The Life, Times and Aftermath of the No by Brown, Jake
    Jake Brown

    Dr. DRE in the Studio: From Compton, Death Row, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, the Game and Mad Money - The Life, Times and Aftermath of the No

    Dr. Dre: 'In The Studio' details Dr. Dre's life, times and history, in a way no other book has. Dr. Dre: 'In the Studio' describes how he was molded into one of the world's greatest Hip Hop Producers beginning when he was three years...
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  • Don't Make Beats Like Me: 24 Powerful Laws To Guide You Towards Success As A Music Producer by Rucks, Chris Mayday
    Chris Mayday Rucks

    Don't Make Beats Like Me: 24 Powerful Laws To Guide You Towards Success As A Music Producer

    Don't Make Beats Like Me is a unique guide on music production designed to give a competitive advantage to any music producers serious about creating long-term success in the music industry. Chris shares wisdom from his own experiences as a beatmaker, the director of...
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  • Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop by Westhoff, Ben
    Ben Westhoff

    Dirty South: Outkast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop

    Rap music from New York and Los Angeles once ruled the charts, but nowadays the southern sound thoroughly dominates the radio, Billboard, and MTV. Coastal artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and Ice-T call southern rap "garbage," but they're probably just jealous, as artists like...
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  • DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution by Walker, Lance Scott
    Lance Scott Walker

    DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution

    DJ Screw, a.k.a. Robert Earl Davis Jr., changed rap and hip-hop forever. In the 1990s, in a spare room of his Houston home, he developed a revolutionary mixing technique known as chopped and screwed. Spinning two copies of a record, Screw would "chop" in...
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  • Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle by Abe, Daudi
    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....
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  • Everything I Need to Know about Business I Learned from Hip-Hop: A Millennial's Guide to Making Bank by Miller, Giles
    Giles Miller

    Everything I Need to Know About Business I Learned from Hip-Hop: A Millennial's Guide to Making Bank

    Hustling, Music, and Money...Generations of Americans have grown up with Hip-Hop, but the genre never gets the respect it deserves in business.Hip-Hop artists and entrepreneurs are famous for working their way from the bottom to the top. Their beginnings in pimping, slinging, and performing...
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  • Definition of Down: My Life with Ice T & the Birth of Hip Hop - b/w version by Cuda, Heidi
    Heidi Cuda

    Definition of Down: My Life with Ice T & the Birth of Hip Hop - b/w version

    Darlene Ortiz was with Ice T for 17 years, beginning with his early days hustlin' on the streets and his subsequent rise to fame. In Definition of Down: My Life with Ice T & the Birth of Hip Hop, she tells how hip hop...
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  • Cross the Tracks: A Memoir by Badazz, Boosie
    Boosie Badazz

    Cross the Tracks: A Memoir

    From one of rap's most evocative writers comes a stirring memoir and "masterpiece of a book" (Snoop Dogg) about how Boosie Badazz, one of the industry's most controversial figures, was able to overcome insurmountable odds to make his music dreams a reality. A Baton...
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  • Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap by Jordan, Brad Scarface
    Brad Scarface Jordan

    Diary of a Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap

    One of Rolling Stone's Best Music Books of 2015From Geto Boys legend and renowned storyteller Scarface, comes a passionate memoir about how hip-hop changed the life of a kid from the south side of Houston, and how he rose to the top-and ushered in...
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  • For Whom the Cowbell Tolls: 25 Years of Paul's Boutique by Relic, Peter
    Peter Relic

    For Whom the Cowbell Tolls: 25 Years of Paul's Boutique

    Think you know everything possible about the Beastie Boys classic album Paul's Boutique? Think again. To commemorate the album's 25th birthday, author Dan LeRoy and journalist Peter Relic joined forces to "drop the new science and kick the new knowledge" about this legendary 1989...
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  • Enter The Wu-Tang: How Nine Men Changed Hip-Hop Forever: How Nine Men Changed Hip-Hop Forever by Page, Alan Charles
    Alan Charles Page

    Enter The Wu-Tang: How Nine Men Changed Hip-Hop Forever: How Nine Men Changed Hip-Hop Forever

    Wu-Tang Clan's debut album, "Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers)" sold a million copies in less than two years, in America alone, without making a single concession to pop radio. That album spawned a mini-empire, including a clothing line that grossed $10 million in...
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  • Dated Emcees by Hodge, Chinaka
    Chinaka Hodge

    Dated Emcees

    Chinaka Hodge came of age along with hip-hop--and its influence on her suitors became inextricable from their personal interactions. Form blends with content in Dated Emcees as she examines her love life through the lens of hip-hop's best known orators, characters, archetypes and songs,...
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  • Dancing with the Devil, how Puff burned the bad boys of Hip-Hop: Dancing with the Devil by Curry, Mark
    Mark Curry

    Dancing with the Devil, how Puff burned the bad boys of Hip-Hop: Dancing with the Devil

    He has recorded with the biggest stars in the music business. He wrote many of the hits that made Sean "Puffy" Combs one of the richest men alive. On the surface, the multi-million dollar empire that Puff built looks like the stuff of dreams....
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  • Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality by Jah, Yusaf
    Chuck D

    Fight the Power: Rap, Race, and Reality

    Like the hard-hitting sounds of a Public Enemy jam, the words of the band's lead singer, Chuck D, excite the mind and senses. In his first book, Chuck D pours out commentary that takes on Hollywood, race, the music industry, the murders of Tupac...
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  • Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity by Saunders, Tanya L.
    Tanya L. Saunders

    Cuban Underground Hip Hop: Black Thoughts, Black Revolution, Black Modernity

    Honorable Mention, Barbara T. Christian Literary Award, Caribbean Studies Association, 2017In the wake of the 1959 Cuban Revolution, a key state ideology developed: racism was a systemic cultural issue that ceased to exist after the Revolution, and any racism that did persist was a...
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  • Emerald City Hip Hop, Seattle by Mbassa, Alexis Wolfe
    Alexis Wolfe Mbassa

    Emerald City Hip Hop, Seattle

    Emerald City Hip Hop is a photographic documentation of the Seattle hip hop scene from 2001-2008. It is a celebration of becoming an artist. Words, stories, lyrics, memorabilia and photographs from the years 2001-2008 in Seattle hip hop fill the pages. Artists, producers, promoters,...
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  • Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future by Christopher, Roy
    Roy Christopher

    Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future

    This book is about is the many ways that the foundations of hip-hop appropriation--allusions and creative language use, as well as technology and self-reference--inform the new millennium. In Dead Precedents, Roy Christopher traces the story of how hip-hop invented the twenty-first century. Emerging alongside...
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  • Everything I Need to Know about Business I Learned from Hip-Hop: A Millennial's Guide to Making Bank by Miller, Giles
    Giles Miller

    Everything I Need to Know about Business I Learned from Hip-Hop: A Millennial's Guide to Making Bank

    Hustling, Music, and Money...Generations of Americans have grown up with Hip-Hop, but the genre never gets the respect it deserves in business.Hip-Hop artists and entrepreneurs are famous for working their way from the bottom to the top. Their beginnings in pimping, slinging, and performing...
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  • For The Love: The Art Of The Hip-Hop Video by McDormand, Kevin
    Kevin McDormand

    For The Love: The Art Of The Hip-Hop Video

    In For The Love, author Kevin McDormand interviews the creators of hip-hop's classic videos, compiling the stories into a seamless narrative. In this first volume, he covers the following ten videos in depth: Madvillain: All Caps Pharoahe Monch: Broken Again Your Old Droog: We...
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  • Definition of Down: My Life with Ice T & the Birth of Hip Hop by Cuda, Heidi
    Heidi Cuda

    Definition of Down: My Life with Ice T & the Birth of Hip Hop

    Darlene Ortiz was with Ice T for 17 years, beginning with his early days hustlin' on the streets and his subsequent rise to fame. In Definition of Down: My Life with Ice T & the Birth of Hip Hop, she tells how hip hop...
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  • Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture by Bynoe, Yvonne
    Yvonne Bynoe

    Encyclopedia of Rap and Hip Hop Culture

    Hip Hop music is comprised of several art forms: 1) MC-ing or rapping 2)B-boying or breakdancing 3)Deejaying (music) and 4) Graffiti art (visual art). This encyclopedia examines all four elements of Hip Hop Culture, providing students, scholars, and music fans with a complete history...
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