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Total Chaos The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop

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Holler If You Hear Me Searching for Tupac Shakur

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Ethan Brown

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Westsiders: Stories of Boys in the Hood

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The Da Capo Book of Rock & Roll

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Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America

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