From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens

It was All a Dream Biggie and the World that Made Him

Justin Tinsley

From Staircase to Stage The Story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan

Hurricanes

Rick Cross

On the Come Up

Angie Thomas

Sweat the Technique

Rakim

Go Ahead in the Rain Notes to A Tribe Called Quest

Hanif Abdurraqib

Hell is Round the Corner

Raw My Journey Into the Wu-Tang

Lamont "U-God" Hawkins

All Things Remembered

Goldie

Original Gangstas

Ben Westhoff

Diary of a Madman

Brad "Scarface" Jordan

Gone 'Til November

Lil Wayne

Gang Town

Dr. Don Pinnock

Empire State Of Mind (revised)

Rap Year Book, The

Shea Serrano

Unbelievable: The Life, Death, and Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G.

Cheo Hodari Coker

The 50th law

Robert Greene

Straight from the Source An Expose from the Former Editor in Chief of the H

Kim Osorio

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

Tupac Shakur - the life and times of an American icon

Tayannah Lee

The Vulture

Gil Scott-Heron

Fame And Infamy

Ed Wright

Nas's Illmatic

Matthew Gasteier

Gang Leader for a Day

Sudhir Venkatesh

The Five Percenters Islam, Hip-hop and the Gods of New York

Michael Muhammad Knight

Hip Hop Revolution - The Culture and Politics of Rap

Jeffrey Armstrong

Holler If You Hear Me Searching for Tupac Shakur

Michael Eric Dyson

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

Ethan Brown

Raising Hell The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay

Ronin Ro

Million Little Pieces

James Frey

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

Eithne Quinn

Life on the Outside The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett

Jennifer Gonnerman

The Kid

Kevin Lewis

A Million Little Pieces

James Frey

Back In The Day

Darrin Keith Bastfield

In Search of Respect - Selling Crack in El Barrio

Philippe Bourgois

Pimp The Story of My Life

Iceberg Slim

Rebel for the Hell of It The Life of Tupac Shakur

Armond White

Westsiders: Stories of Boys in the Hood

William Shaw