Music-Genres & Styles-Rap & Hip Hop

The remarkable rags-to-riches story of Ruffhouse Records founder Chris Schwartz, who battled poverty, abuse, and addiction to start one of the most pivotal labels in hip-hop history and launch the careers of Ms. Lauryn Hill, The Fugees, Wyclef Jean, NAS, Cypress Hill, DMX, Jermaine...

Avoiding the easy definitions and caricatures that tend to celebrate or condemn the "hip hop generation," Hip Hop Matters focuses on fierce and far-reaching battles being waged in politics, pop culture, and academe to assert control over the movement. At stake, Watkins argues, is...

(Bass Builders). This excellent book in our Bass Builders series features 101 authentic hip-hop bass lines spanning 25 years of urban music and covering East Coast, West Coast and Down South styles. Includes 98 full-demo tracks performed by acclaimed bassist and author Josquin des...

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist Songbook). The matching folio to this multi-Grammy-winning (1998 Album of the Year, Best New Artist, Best R&B Album) release includes the award-winning hit "Doo Wop (That Thing)," the title song, and 11 more: Every Ghetto, Every City * Everything Is Everything *...

Over ten years since his death, Biggie Smalls, also known as The Notorious B.I.G., is considered one of the most influential rappers of all time, a credit continually given by numerous hip-hop artists. Raised in Brooklyn during the crack-cocaine boom of the late 1970s...

On the tenth anniversary of his death, The Dirty Version is the first biography of hip hop superstar and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol' Dirty Bastard, to be written by someone from his inner circle: his right-hand man and best friend, Buddha...

In 1997 the rap group Racionais MCs (the 'Rational' MCs) recorded the album Sobrevivendo no Inferno (Surviving in Hell), subsequently changing the hip-hop scene in S縊 Paulo and firmly establishing itself as the point of reference for youth across Brazil. In an era when...

Celebrating the seventeen-year anniversary of our debut issue (December 2001), we're releasing a special-edition reissue, completely redesigned and hardbound. We've added many more photos and record covers. Author: Various AuthorsISBN-10: 0999212753ISBN-13: 9780999212752Publisher: Wax Poetics BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2019Pages: 142Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 10.00h x 8.00w x...

Reprint of Wax Poetics Issue One, originally published December 2001.Author: Wax PoeticsISBN-10: 0999212745ISBN-13: 9780999212745Publisher: Wax Poetics BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2018Pages: 82Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.21d

People Magazine"Shady Bizzness was disturbing and intense It was like a good scary movie " MSNBC"It was brilliantly written " Book DescriptionThis story is based on the factual ills of "white rapper" and Hip-Hop phenomenon, "Eminem". "Shady Bizzness" tell about real life events of...

"People always get caught up in what these two iconic groups stood for, but can we just step back for a moment and say, who gives a fuck? They were good! They made amazing records!...Rap parallels punk rock: Destroy everything that came before it...

Literary Nonfiction. Art. Film. Music. Twenty years after the murder of The Notorious B.I.G., THE MAN ON HIGH melds the creative and the critical, and questions what legacy means in the 21st century. Contemplating Biggie through the lens of both skateboarding and poetry, Jeff...

Have fun coloring in the faces of the biggest names in rap. This book is interactive, use the QR codes to view some very popular videos on YouTube. The rap legends are rendered in black and white perfect for coloring with crayons, markers or...

K-pop (Korean popular music) reigns as one of the most popular music genres in the world today, a phenomenon that appeals to listeners of all ages and nationalities. In Soul in Seoul: African American Popular Music and K-pop, Crystal S. Anderson examines the most...

How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the curtain on an urban crisis. How is it that gangsta rap--so dystopian that it struck aspiring Brooklyn rapper and future superstar Jay-Z as "over the top"--was born in Los Angeles, the home of...

Despite its global popularity, rap has received little scholarly attention in terms of its poetic features. Rhymes in the Flow systematically analyzes the poetics (rap beats, rhythms, rhymes, verse and song structures) of many notable rap songs to provide new insights on rap artistry...

In 1973, the music scene was forever changed by the emergence of hip-hop. Masterfully blending the rhythmic grooves of funk and soul with layered beats and chanted rhymes, artists such as DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash paved the way for an entire new...

PAVED in depth will grant a birds eye view for those who are in search of a successful direction or route within the Music Industry by minimizing the obstacles they may face. If there was a minimal amount of let downs that may arise...

"A strong and timely book for the new day in hip-hop. Don't miss it "--Cornel West For many African Americans of a certain demographic the sixties and seventies were the golden age of political movements. The Civil Rights movement segued into the Black Power...

Washington Post national arts reporter Geoff Edgers takes a deep dive into the story behind "Walk This Way," Aerosmith and Run-DMC's legendary, groundbreaking mashup that forever changed music. The early 1980s were an exciting time for music. Hair metal bands were selling out stadiums,...

The Book of Five Cyphers is a comprehensive guide on the essential tenets of bboying and bgirling. Modeled after The Book of Five Rings by legendary Japanese samurai Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Cyphers relates each of the core elements--Earth, Water, Wind, Fire--to...

This book will feed the appetite of people around the world interested in the origins and some of the elements utilized by one of the greatest rappers to exist.The backdrop of the story takes place in the streets of Yonkers, NY and chronicles the...

Whether along race, class or generational lines, hip-hop music has been a source of controversy since the beats got too big and the voices too loud for the block parties that spawned them. America has condemned and commended this music and the culture that...

The Advanced Rhyming Dictionary represents the culmination of more than seven years of work. It is the first of its kind and is a compendium of two and three syllable multisyllabic rhyme schemes aimed at rappers, poets, educators and academics.Adam 'Shuffle T' Woollard has...

Hip Hop has told the tale and now it's time to reflect back...This cultural brilliance of sound presented a voice detailing life growing up in the streets of America's largest cities of color as far back as the 1920s. Sprung from the spirits of...

The son of a black panther activist, Tupac had a short childhood in Harlem and the Bronx, and a violent adolescence as a drug dealer, before he found fame with his first 'gangsta rap' album 2Pacalypse Now. He drew on his experiences to describe...

THE SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WHATEVER YOU SAY I AM, CHRONICLING THE PAST TWENTY YEARS OF RAPPER EMINEM'S LIFE, BASED ON EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE ARTIST, HIS FRIENDS, AND ASSOCIATES"A passionate look at the Detroit rapper's music . . . an...

The Hip Hop Journal: A Daily Planner provides you with a notebook as well as a daily update on the most important historical events that took place in hip hop culture on each date. Simply turn to today's page to find out what classic...

Hip Hop in the 1990s--What an era? Only one hip hop history book tells you how Hip Hop & R&B took over for ages to come This rap history book puts you directly in the minds of the young American hip hop family tree...

As head of the first special force unit devoted exclusively to the investigation of hip-hop crime, first-grade detective Derrick Parker worked on some of the biggest criminal cases in rap history. From the shooting at Club New York to the murder of Tupac Shakur,...

In 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive Attack, splicing together American hip-hop and soul with the sounds of the British underground. With its marauding bass lines, angular guitars, and psychedelic effects, Blue Lines built on the...

Ever wonder how someone can go to sleep in public housing and wake up in a mansion seemingly overnight? Having worked 25 years in the Hip-Hop music industry and witnessed firsthand the inner workings of the fame machine up close; I personally KNOW entertainers...

In The Cuban Hustle, Sujatha Fernandes explores the multitudinous ways artists, activists, and ordinary Cubans have hustled to survive and express themselves in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. Whether circulating information on flash drives as a substitute for the internet or building...

Trap culture: the hip-hop of the American South, documented in scenes of everyday Atlanta by Vincent DesaillyKnown for its ominous sound and gritty lyrics, "Trap" is the American South's brand of hip-hop, particularly associated with the city of Atlanta. "Trap" is also slang for...

The Word Rhythm Dictionary: A Resource for Writers, Rappers, Poets, and Lyricists is a new kind of dictionary--one that reflects the use of "rhythm rhymes" by rappers, poets, and songwriters of today. This is an eminently practical reference work for all wordsmiths looking to...

Infinite Crab meats is an all you can eat buffet of probing, insightful hip-hop journalism. It's like Crab Legs Night at an actual Chinese buffet, except you don't have to wrestle with rednecks in order to make sure you get a plate. Have as...

Few pioneers are philosophical, liberal, intelligent and violent all at the same time - but then there is only one Ice Cube. Rapper, actor, industry mogul and entrepreneur, the LA-born gangsta-rap founder has risen from the ranks of NWA - the 'most dangerous band...

An eclectic collection of Crime, Horror, Bizarro, Science Fiction, Ninja Action, Noir, Mythos, and Literary Fiction stories, that gives tribute to one of the best Hip-Hop groups of all time. Featuring: Gabino Iglesias: BIG GHETTO BOYS Charles Austin Muir: THE RAEKWONOMICON Joshua Chaplinsky: SUPREME...

Author Melissa Chemam's in-depth study of the influences that led to the formation of the Wild Bunch and then Massive Attack looks into Bristol's past to explore how the city helped shape one of the most successful and innovative musical movements of the last...

Provincial Headz: British Hip Hop and Critical Regionalism draws upon spatial practice, material culture, human geography, ethnomusicology and cultural theory in order to present an interdisciplinary counter-narrative to that of hip hop as a strictly urban phenomenon; providing an insight into the relocation of...

Detroit, Michigan, has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and...

The Academic Archive: Vol 2; Pretty Purdie: Bernard Purdie; Bob James Calling; Two Brothers With Beats: Mr. Walt and Evil Dee; Old School: First Phase Phase (from East Village Eye November 1982); North Coast Hip-Hop: Step Into A World / An Allegory in Four...

Lessons Learned: Critical Conversations in Hip Hop and Social Justice looks at the popularity and impact hip hop has on social movements. Historically, movements are spearheaded by youth. Their values are best portrayed in their music. The book provides numerous examples of how hip...

Hip-Hop en Fran軋is charts the emergence and development of hip-hop culture in France, French Caribbean, Qu饕ec, and Senegal from its origins until today. With essays by renowned hip-hop scholars and a foreword by Marcyliena Morgan, executive director of the Harvard University Hiphop Archive and...

In this second edition of The Murder of Biggie Smalls, Cathy Scott delves behind the scenes to pore over police records, coroner reports, FBI files, and interviews Biggie's mother, Voletta Wallace, to reveal new facts surrounding the gangsta rapper's murder. The Notorious B.I.G. exploded...

Welcome to this exploration of the Roots of hip-hop. The roots of hip-hop, as in: the Roots--a story of one of the most enduring, multi-talented, and successful groups of the past thirty years in any genre--and the story of the roots of hip-hop, that...

Singer. Dancer. Movie star. Activist. Queer icon. Afrofuturist. Working class heroine. Time traveler. Prophet. Feminist. Android. Dirty Computer. Janelle Mon疇 is all these things and more, making her one of the most fascinating artists to emerge in the twenty-first century. This provocative new study...

In this pioneering study, Hisham Aidi--an expert on globalization and social movements--takes us into the musical subcultures that have emerged among Muslim youth worldwide over the last decade. He shows how music--primarily hip-hop, but also rock, reggae, Gnawa and Andalusian--has come to express a...

From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher, rap has always drawn on deep traditions of African American poetic word-play, In Talking 'Bout Your Mama, author Elijah Wald explores one of the most...

Rhyme's Challenge offers a concise, pithy primer to hip-hop poetics while presenting a spirited defense of rhyme in contemporary American poetry. David Caplan's stylish study examines hip-hop's central but supposedly outmoded verbal technique: rhyme. At a time when print-based poets generally dismiss formal rhyme...