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Rap Books
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How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as rap)
avg rating 3.99 — 792 ratings — published 2009
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as rap)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,555 ratings — published 2019
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rap)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,275 ratings — published 2019
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rap)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,387 ratings — published 2017
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as rap)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,221 ratings — published 2010
The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as rap)
avg rating 4.38 — 4,781 ratings — published 2015
Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rap)
avg rating 3.30 — 1,522 ratings — published 1990
Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as rap)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,031 ratings — published 2016
The Wu-Tang Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rap)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,549 ratings — published 2004
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rap)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,718 ratings — published 2005
From Staircase to Stage: The Story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as rap)
avg rating 4.25 — 968 ratings — published 2021
La Época del Rap de Acá (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as rap)
avg rating 4.23 — 101 ratings — published 2019
Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as rap)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,264 ratings — published
The Rapper's Handbook: A Guide to Freestyling, Writing Rhymes, and Battling (by Flocabulary)
by (shelved 4 times as rap)
avg rating 4.12 — 106 ratings — published 2009
How to Rap 2: Advanced Flow and Delivery Techniques (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rap)
avg rating 4.18 — 139 ratings — published 2013
King of the Neuro Verse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 3.88 — 418 ratings — published 2025
Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 3.84 — 301 ratings — published 2011
Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 3.94 — 464 ratings — published
The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.22 — 754 ratings — published
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 3.80 — 641 ratings — published 2008
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.45 — 6,809 ratings — published 2019
Hurricanes: A Memoir – A NYT Bestseller African American Autobiography of a Music Legend (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,169 ratings — published 2019
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.41 — 790 ratings — published 1999
Beastie Boys Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.53 — 14,641 ratings — published 2018
The Roots of Rap: 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of Hip-Hop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.26 — 740 ratings — published
Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.53 — 269 ratings — published
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.54 — 19,737 ratings — published 2017
Rani Patel in Full Effect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 3.72 — 782 ratings — published 2016
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,414 ratings — published 2011
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,155 ratings — published 2013
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.26 — 668 ratings — published 2007
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,620 ratings — published 2011
J’étais là - 30 ans au cœur du rap (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 2022
Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,110 ratings — published 2023
Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,203 ratings — published 1995
The Science of Rap (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.23 — 31 ratings — published 1995
Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.07 — 202 ratings — published
J’étais là | 30 ans au cœur du rap (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.10 — 31 ratings — published 2022
Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.33 — 216 ratings — published 1992
Ghost (Boston Underworld, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.13 — 19,423 ratings — published 2016
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,044 ratings — published 2019
The Rapping Princess (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 3.73 — 84 ratings — published
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,322 ratings — published 2013
Jay-Z: Made in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,953 ratings — published 2019
Let Me Hear a Rhyme (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,015 ratings — published 2019
Droppin' Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 3.52 — 58 ratings — published 1995
“A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level.”
― Decoded
― Decoded
“Winning every league in my sleep
Cause I make my dreams all a reality
Feeling like a beast at the peak
Cause I finna create my trees of integrity
Engineering fights, going melee
Legendary like Tiger JK
Grab another pint on a payday
Mayday! Mayday!
Dance in my heyday!”
―
Cause I make my dreams all a reality
Feeling like a beast at the peak
Cause I finna create my trees of integrity
Engineering fights, going melee
Legendary like Tiger JK
Grab another pint on a payday
Mayday! Mayday!
Dance in my heyday!”
―
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