30 Best

Hip Hop Books

1

Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981

2

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

3

My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy

4

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

5

One Day It'll All Make Sense

6

When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop

7

The Psychological Covert War on Hip Hop: The Illuminati's takeover of Hip Hop

8

The Dozens: A History of Rap's Mama

9

The Tanning of America: How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy

10

Game Over: My Love for Hip Hop

11

Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood

12

Soul Train: The Music, Dance, and Style of a Generation

13

J Dilla's Donuts

14

Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 2: 1981-1983

15

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

16

Decoded

17

Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

18

The Tao of Wu

19

The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters

20

Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop

21

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music & Culture)

22

Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies

23

Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981

24

Hip Hop America

25

The Hip-Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African-American Culture

26

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

27

Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists

28

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down

29

The Rose That Grew from Concrete