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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 19 times as rap)
avg rating 3.99 — 791 ratings — published 2009
On the Come Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as rap)
avg rating 4.26 — 101,046 ratings — published 2019
Sweat the Technique: Revelations on Creativity from the Lyrical Genius (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rap)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,252 ratings — published 2019
The Autobiography of Gucci Mane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as rap)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,113 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 — 1,213 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 — 4,741 ratings — published 2015
Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rap)
avg rating 3.30 — 1,511 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 — 1,998 ratings — published 2016
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as rap)
avg rating 4.14 — 5,669 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 — 938 ratings — published 2021
La Época del Rap de Acá (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as rap)
avg rating 4.24 — 97 ratings — published 2019
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 4.17 — 138 ratings — published 2013
The Wu-Tang Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as rap)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,537 ratings — published 2004
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 — 297 ratings — published 2011
Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 3.94 — 453 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 — 730 ratings — published
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 3.80 — 638 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 — 6,684 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 4.01 — 2,129 ratings — published 2019
Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.41 — 787 ratings — published 1999
Beastie Boys Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.53 — 14,387 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 — 739 ratings — published
Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.53 — 264 ratings — published
Raw: My Journey into the Wu-Tang (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,246 ratings — published
They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.55 — 19,302 ratings — published 2017
Rani Patel in Full Effect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 3.72 — 781 ratings — published 2016
My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,391 ratings — published 2011
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,141 ratings — published 2013
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as rap)
avg rating 4.27 — 658 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 3.88 — 1,608 ratings — published 2011
King of the Neuro Verse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 3.91 — 314 ratings — published 2025
Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,991 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 — 1,200 ratings — published 1995
J'étais là: 30 ans au coeur du rap (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
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 4.08 — 197 ratings — published
J’étais là | 30 ans au cœur du rap (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.07 — 29 ratings — published 2022
Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.31 — 201 ratings — published 1992
Ghost (Boston Underworld, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.14 — 18,803 ratings — published 2016
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.40 — 2,010 ratings — published 2019
The Rapping Princess (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 3.73 — 83 ratings — published
Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.12 — 7,287 ratings — published 2013
Jay-Z: Made in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,934 ratings — published 2019
Let Me Hear a Rhyme (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as rap)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,902 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
“The art of rap is deceptive. It seems so straightforward and personal and real that people read it completely literally, as raw testimony or autobiography. And sometimes the words we use, nigga, bitch, motherfucker, and the violence of the images overwhelms some listeners. It's all white noise to them till they hear a bitch or a nigga and then they run off yelling "See!" and feel vindicated in their narrow conception of what the music is about.”
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“Yeah, my life a bitch, but you know nothing about her
Been to hell and back, I can show you vouchers”
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Been to hell and back, I can show you vouchers”
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