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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 — 796 ratings — published 2009
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as rap)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,744 ratings — published 2019
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rap)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,284 ratings — published 2019
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rap)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,503 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 — 1,224 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 — 4,799 ratings — published 2015
Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rap)
avg rating 3.29 — 1,530 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 — 2,051 ratings — published 2016
The Wu-Tang Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rap)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,556 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 — 5,736 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 4.24 — 980 ratings — published 2021
La Época del Rap de Acá (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as rap)
avg rating 4.23 — 102 ratings — published 2019
Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as rap)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,268 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 3.85 — 452 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 3.83 — 302 ratings — published 2011
Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 3.94 — 472 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 — 766 ratings — published
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 3.80 — 644 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 — 6,857 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 — 2,181 ratings — published 2019
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.41 — 791 ratings — published 1999
Beastie Boys Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.53 — 14,741 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 — 741 ratings — published
Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.53 — 270 ratings — published
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.54 — 19,885 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 — 1,425 ratings — published 2011
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,159 ratings — published 2013
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.27 — 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 — 1,624 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 — 2,152 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 — 1,205 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 — 204 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 4.35 — 228 ratings — published 1992
Ghost (Boston Underworld, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.12 — 19,608 ratings — published 2016
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,056 ratings — published 2019
The Rapping Princess (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 3.72 — 85 ratings — published
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,337 ratings — published 2013
Jay-Z: Made in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,961 ratings — published 2019
Let Me Hear a Rhyme (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,062 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
“Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.”
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“But he played music so loudly he could not hear his pain. He stunted his growth beneath a bass that decorated his aura and lyrics that hardened the glass parts of him. He was indeed an autumn leaf dipped in concrete. He wanted sound, any sound but his own thoughts. Ears that needed songs louder than the mind were ears afraid of what they might hear inside.”
― A Happy Ghost
― A Happy Ghost
