When Rap Music Had a Conscience: The Artists, Organizations and Historic Events that Inspired and Influenced the Golden Age of Hip-Hop

Flip the Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop

Arusa Qureshi

Dead Precedents

Roy Christopher

Sweat the Technique

Rakim

The Music in African American Fiction

Robert H. Cataliotti

The Art & Science of Respect: A Memoir by James Prince

James Prince

Original Gangstas

Ben Westhoff

Diary of a Madman

Brad "Scarface" Jordan

Rap Year Book, The

Shea Serrano

Hip-hop in Houston The Origin & the Legacy

Maco L. Faniel

For the Record: Conversations with People Who Have Shaped the Way We Listen to Music

Many Ameri

Thug Life - Race, Gender and The Meaning of Hip Hop

Michael Alpert

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

Ben Westhoff

Understand Rap

William Buckholz

Tupac Shakur - the life and times of an American icon

Tayannah Lee

Hip hop Amerika

Nelson George

Nas's Illmatic

Matthew Gasteier

JAZZ

Gary Giddins

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

Molefi K. Asante

The Pirate's Dilemma: How hackers, punk capitalists, graffiti millionaires and other youth movements are remixing our culture and changing our world

Matt Mason

Hip Hop Revolution - The Culture and Politics of Rap

Jeffrey Armstrong

Know what I mean?

Michael Eric Dyson

Total Chaos The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop

Jeff Chang

American Popular Music: The Rock years

Larry Starr

Holler If You Hear Me Searching for Tupac Shakur

Michael Eric Dyson

Nuthin' but a "G" Thang The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap

Eithne Quinn

Hip

John Leland

Why White Kids Love Hip-hop Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America

Bakari Kitwana

Queens Reigns Supreme Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler

Ethan Brown

Jazz: A History of America's Music

Geoffrey C. Ward

Rap and Hip Hop: Examining Pop Culture

Jared Green

Classic Material : The Hip-Hop Album Guide

Oliver. Wang

Rebel for the Hell of It The Life of Tupac Shakur

Armond White

Global Noise Rap and Hip Hop Outside the USA

Tony Mitchell

Back in the Days

Jamel Shabbaz

Westsiders: Stories of Boys in the Hood

William Shaw

The Covert War Against Rock

Alex Constantine

Music genres and corporate cultures

Keith Negus

Flowers in the Dustbin

James Miller

Between God and Gangsta Rap

Michael Eric Dyson

Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

Tricia Rose