Music-Genres & Styles-Rap & Hip Hop

A stunning cultural biography of De La Soul, the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched millions of lives and changed rap forever.De La Soul burst onto the scene with the release of their groundbreaking 1989 album 3 Feet High & Rising, an "anything goes" hip-hop...

In Old Town Road, Chris Molanphy considers Lil Nas X's debut single as pop artifact, chart phenomenon, and cultural watershed. "Old Town Road" was more than a massive hit, with the most weeks at No. 1 in Billboard Hot 100 history. It is also...

In Deathlife, Anthony B. Pinn analyzes hip hop to explore how Blackness serves as a framework for defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the right to...

This volume documents the collaborations between famed fashion designer Nigo(R) and many recording artists (including Pharrell, A$AP Rocky, and Tyler, the Creator), presenting a trove of limited-edition apparel, sneakers, accessories, album covers, and collectibles and an archive of trademark graphics and patterns. Straddling the...

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...

The bumpin' book for hip-hop disciples (a.k.a. fiends), songwriters, all other writers, pop culture fans, linguists, and parents who are just trying to figure out what their kids are saying. The inventive sounds of hip-hop (which became America's number two music genre in 2001,...

The population of Mexican-origin peoples in the United States is a diverse one, as reflected by age, class, gender, sexuality, and religion. Far from antiquated concepts of mestizaje, recent scholarship has shown that Mexican@/Chican@ culture is a mixture of indigenous, African, and Spanish and...

TUPAC SHAKURSPIRITUALITY AND POLITICSBy William WhalenTupac Shakur (1971-1996) is one of the great hip-hop stars. Still a hugely influential figure in the music world, there is much more to Tupac Shakur than his controversial media image suggests. This new book aims to interpret and...

This eclectic anthology of poems are the brainchild of an authentic B-Boy, inspired by thirty five years of revolutionary's in spoken words such as The Last Poets, Rakim, KRS-1, Tupac, Nas, and Saul Williams. In Random Bars there is a militancy of Pro-Black thought...

In Deathlife, Anthony B. Pinn analyzes hip hop to explore how Blackness serves as a framework for defining and guiding the relationship between life and death in the United States. Pinn argues that white supremacy and white privilege operate based on the right to...

"Riding the Beats of the New Decade: The Hip Hop to Trap Voyage"*** Author of "Rapper's Delight" essay currently archived at the Library of Congress ****** Guest speaker of BBC2 Radio "Rapper's Delight 40th Anniversary" by DJ Trevor Nelson - September 2019 ***Join Eric...

Sell Beats: The guide for music producers who want to make money onlineLike all music producers you love what you do, but you can't turn a hobby into a job?This book is for you: practical and immediately applicable tools to start selling beats online...

We're over 20 years deep into this Grime thing. A lot has happened. It went from a fresh new sound in London to a culture that people around the world wanted a slice of. Crews popped up all over the country in the 2000s....

The book, Hip Hop Ain't Dead: It's Livin' In the White House, is about a man, Barack Obama, who made history. By first, becoming the first Black President in the history of the United States, and second, shattering the mold of conventional politics by...

Let's take it back to the seventiesWhen Rap was born and made emcees. But before they could even bless the MicIt would be the DJ that rocked the night From the Message that rained down from Sugar HillTo the beat from chic that spun...

Hip-Hop at it's core is authentic and unapologetic without those two attributes, you ain't Hip-Hop If you feel like you're disrespecting someone, when you say the word nigga, you're definitely not Hip-Hop. So, don't even put yourself in that space, especially if you feel...

An extremely rare and intimate look into the extraordinary life and death of legendary A$AP Mob founder A$AP Yams and the internationally acclaimed music and art collective that includes luminaries A$AP Rocky and A$AP Ferg. Never before has the history been told in words...

This newly expanded and revised third edition brings together the most important and up-to-date hip-hop scholarship in one comprehensive volume.Author: Murray FormanISBN-10: 1032403551ISBN-13: 9781032403557Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/2023Pages: 768Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.93lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.56d

The story of the celebrated rapper and the iconic Wu-Tang Clan, told by one of its founding members Dennis Coles--aka Ghostface Killah--is a co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, a legendary hip hop group who established themselves by breaking all the rules, taking their music...

The success of the Hip-Hop album The Calling (2003) by the Hilltop Hoods was a major event on the timeline of Hip-Hop in Australia. It launched a formerly 'underground' scene into the spotlight, radically transforming the group members' lives and creating new opportunities for...

'50 years later, hip hop's influence has never been stronger. This book is proof of that - a must have for collectors, artists, dreamers, and hip hop heads everywhere.' - Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean), record producer and rapperA visual and cultural history of hip...

How can we engage critically with music video and its role in popular culture? What do contemporary music videos have to tell us about patterns of cultural identity today? Based around an eclectic series of vivid case studies, this fresh and timely examination is...

Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as Breakin' (1984), Beat Street (1984), and Krush Groove (1985) in order to...

The apex of critical praise and commercial success is a metric achieved by a select few. In 2020, Cardi B became synonymous with "record breaking" as her debut album Invasion of Privacy went five times platinum and became the longest charting record by a...

The Western art music canon is a collection of musical works that are considered to be the most important and influential in the history of Western music. It is typically defined by a focus on European composers and musical traditions, and it has been...

This book brings multiple sites of lusophony together, and illuminates how mobile configurations of people, technologies and hip-hop creativities are best understood as compositions of ubiquitous identities, dispersed communities and syncretic networks. Significantly, the chapters highlight identity narratives that clash with the city, yet...

Egostrip Book 1 is a beautifully designed collection of Dan Lish's stunning character illustrations from the world of hip hop and beyond. The Egostrip project began on Dan's daily commute to work, where he chose to draw his favorite musicians in little black books....

Don't Sweat the Technique equips aspiring performers, musical artists, singers, and hobbyists with the tools and knowledge needed to become a better rapper. Written in simple language and filled with many exercises, this book helps build techniques and unlocks solutions to common stumbling blocks...

TUPAC SHAKURSPIRITUALITY AND POLITICSBy William WhalenTupac Shakur (1971-1996) is one of the great hip-hop stars. Still a hugely influential figure in the music world, there is much more to Tupac Shakur than his controversial media image suggests. This new book aims to interpret and...

Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simultaneously excluded from it. Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North...

Where exactly does the South begin and end? Current maps are too rigid to account for the ways Black people have built the South while being simultaneously excluded from it. Drawing from the different ways Black artists in the 2-5-2 area code in North...

Author: Mark McNairyISBN-10: 006237740XISBN-13: 9780062377401Publisher: HarperLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2016Pages: 176Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.30h x 7.30w x 0.90d

"Beats of the New Millennium: An Odyssey Through the First Decade of Millennium Hip-Hop"*** Author of "Rapper's Delight" essay currently archived at the Library of Congress ****** Guest speaker of BBC2 Radio "Rapper's Delight 40th Anniversary" by DJ Trevor Nelson - September 2019 ***Step...

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the Black Church stood as the stronghold of the Black Community, fighting for equality and economic self-sufficiency and challenging its body to be self-determined and self-aware. Hip Hop Culture grew from disenfranchised urban youth who felt that they had...

"Riding the Beats of the New Decade: The Hip Hop to Trap Voyage"*** Author of "Rapper's Delight" essay currently archived at the Library of Congress ****** Guest speaker of BBC2 Radio "Rapper's Delight 40th Anniversary" by DJ Trevor Nelson - September 2019 ***Join Eric...

Reimagining Sample-based Hip Hop: Making Records within Records presents the poetics of hip-hop record production and the significance of sample material in record making, providing analysis of key releases in hip-hop discography and interviews with experts from the world of Hip Hop and beyond....

Mad Libs meets Method Man, Missy Elliot, and more with this hilarious word game to test rhyme skills, pun abilities and quick wits. It's the perfect gift for all hip-hop fans, aspiring MCs and street poets. Channel your inner MC with this quick-fire word...

Check out the continuation of the hip-hop samples from the volume 4 version.Author: Rashad Skyla MitchellISBN-10: 1512055077ISBN-13: 9781512055078Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2015Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.05d

This is the Volume 3 of the hip-hop sample series which is the other 50 greatest hip-hop samples in hip-hop history.Author: Rashad Skyla MitchellISBN-10: 1511553227ISBN-13: 9781511553223Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/02/2015Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.05d

This is Volume 2 of the hip hop sample series which is the other 50 greatest samples in hip hop history.Author: Rashad Skyla MitchellISBN-10: 1511537760ISBN-13: 9781511537766Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2015Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.05d

This is Volume 2 of the other 50 underrated classic albums in hip-hop history.This is the completion of the top 100 underrated classic albums in hip-hop history.Author: Rashad Skyla MitchellISBN-10: 1511416890ISBN-13: 9781511416894Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2015Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w...

Sampling in hip hop have always been a force in terms of sampling another artist's music and create something that is original and different from what was made. Check out who had the #1 greatest sample in hip hop history.Author: Rashad Skyla MitchellISBN-10: 1508873798ISBN-13:...

There have been producers who have done great music but never received enough acclaim as one of the greatest if not the greatest producer.They fall into the category of the underrated.Check out who is the#1 underrated producer in hip hop history.Author: Rashad Skyla MitchellISBN-10:...

Although Hip Hop is known to come from the streets of South Bronx, New York, its origins go far deeper than that. Unconsciously, the innovative souls of the 1970s Hip Hop movement demonstrated the captivating, vibrational sound of the five regions in Africa: Northern...

Religion and Hip Hop brings together the category of religion, Hip Hop cultural modalities and the demographic of youth. Bringing postmodern theory and critical approaches in the study of religion to bear on Hip Hop cultural practices, this book examines how scholars in religious...

Andre "Mac Dre" Hicks always found a way to tell his story. He was one of the first rappers to record songs through a prison phone in the early '90s (much to the dismay of his jailors). His untimely death in 2004 left a...

Get ready to embark on an exhilarating journey through the pages of "Rhymes and Rebellion: Unveiling the Power of Hip Hop and Gangsta Rap." This extraordinary book is a captivating exploration of the profound impact and transformative nature of one of the most influential...

Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling artist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Fat Joe pulls back the curtain on his larger-than-life persona in this gritty, intimate memoir about growing up in the South Bronx and finding his voice through music. "An adrenaline rush . . . buckle up and lean...

Practice some colorfully meditative self-care with Tee Grizzley Beautiful Adult Coloring Book. Color away the stress and start enjoying life at its fullest.Author: Tracy SanfordISBN-10: 8642046236ISBN-13: 9798642046234Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2020Pages: 40Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.16lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.10d

The ultimate backstage pass: a photographic inside look at the making of the pioneering hip hop documentary Rhyme & ReasonIn the mid-1990s, documentary filmmaker Peter Spirer embarked on a three-year odyssey to create a realistic portrait of hip hop, interviewing over 80 artists. Spirer...