Diary of a Madman

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

Raekwon

This Bright Future A Memoir

Bobby Hall

Sing backwards and weep: A memoir

Mark Lanegan

Hurricanes

Rick Cross

Sweat the Technique

Rakim

Dead Precedents

Roy Christopher

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

James Prince

Raw My Journey Into the Wu-Tang

Lamont "U-God" Hawkins

Gone 'Til November

Lil Wayne

Hip Hop Raised Me

DJ Semtex

Rap Year Book, The

Shea Serrano

Anger is an energy: my life uncensored

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

Cheo Hodari Coker

Hip-hop in Houston The Origin & the Legacy

Maco L. Faniel

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

Ben Westhoff

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

Michael Alpert

Tupac Shakur - the life and times of an American icon

Tayannah Lee

Nas's Illmatic

Matthew Gasteier

Gang Leader for a Day

Sudhir Venkatesh

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

Matt Mason

A World of Gangs Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture

John Hagedorn

Hip Hop Revolution - The Culture and Politics of Rap

Jeffrey Armstrong

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

Tayannah Lee McQuillar

Total Chaos The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop

Jeff Chang

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

50 Cent

Holler If You Hear Me Searching for Tupac Shakur

Michael Eric Dyson

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

Ronin Ro

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

Eithne Quinn

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

Ethan Brown

Howling at the moon

Walter Yetnikoff

Back In The Day

Darrin Keith Bastfield

Pimp The Story of My Life

Iceberg Slim

Rebel for the Hell of It The Life of Tupac Shakur

Armond White

Back in the Days

Jamel Shabbaz

Westsiders: Stories of Boys in the Hood

William Shaw

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Marilyn Manson

The Da Capo Book of Rock & Roll

Clinton Heylin

Hit Men Power Brokers and Fast Money Inside the Music Business

Fredric Dannen

Forced Entries The Downtown Diaries

Jim Carroll