Rap & hip-hop

En gripande uppväxtskildring och en stark berättelse om utanförskap, utsatthet och det starka bandet mellan en mor och en son som söker sin plats i en rotlös tillvaro. New Yorks larmande gator i mitten på 1980-talet. Ison Glasgow är fem år och bor...

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On the heels of Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and "The greatest MC of all time," Rakim. The musician and Hip Hop legend-hailed as &qu...

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The highly-anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Rick Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miami s crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies, and his unstoppable rise to fame

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THE INSPIRATION FOR THE SPIKE JONZE 'LIVE DOCUMENTARY' BEASTIE BOYS STORY, COMING SOON TO APPLE TV+ BOOK OF THE YEAR SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, ROLLING STONE, ROUGH TRADE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'One of the greatest music books ever published.' ...

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The Definitive Biography featuring an introductory interview with LL Cool J and epilogue from Paul Rosenberg, Eminem's manager In 1999, a former dishwasher from Detroit became the most influential music artist in the world. Eminem's dexterity, wit...

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Instant National Bestseller! Wall Street Journal bestseller; USA Today bestseller; Publishers Weekly bestseller; international bestseller. An inspirational book by self-made musical superstar, Russ, reminding you that it starts with YOU, to believ...

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An inside look at the work of hip-hop photographers told through their most intimate diaries-their contact sheets. Featuring rare outtakes from over 100 photoshoots alongside interviews and essays from industry legends, Contact High: A Visual Hist...

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Silvana är ett rikt självporträtt av en av våra största artister och hennes musikaliska universum. I denna unika fotobok möter vi Silvana Imam på ikoniska, tidigare opublicerade och privata bilder tillsammans med de flesta av hennes låttexter, för...

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"Petters texter i bokform: En kulturgärning i Zlatanklass." Jack Hildén, Aftonbladet "...en påfallande lågmäld, ödmjuk och personligt skriven bok." LitteraturMagazinet "Petter visar med "16 rader" att det alltid ...

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Asserting that hip hop culture has become another locus of postmodernity, Osumare explores the intricacies of this phenomenon from the beginning of the Twenty-First century, tracing the aesthetic and socio-political path of the currency of hip hop...

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The RZA, founder of the Wu-Tang Clan, imparts the lessons he's learned on his journey from the Staten Island projects to international superstardom. A devout student of knowledge in every form in which he's found it, he distills here the wisdom he...

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Few forces in New York hip hop proved as historically important with past, present, and future fandom than the Beastie Boys and Run-DMC. While they burst onto the music scene and crossed over from hip hop to the mainstream in the 1980s, their popu...

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Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His signature sound, coupled with deep, questioning lyrics, took the UK by storm in the early 1990s and was part of the soundtrack that defined the post-r...

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Part cookbook, part memoir, part travelogue, and wholly original, F*ck, That's Delicious is rapper Action Bronson's comprehensive guide to the food, chefs, food makers, regions, neighborhoods, and restaurants that every food obsessive should know....

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The Hip Hop Movement offers a critical theory and alternative history of rap music and hip hop culture by examining their roots in the popular musics and popular cultures of the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement. Connecting classic rh...

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"Dyson's incisive analysis of JAY-Z's brilliance not only offers a brief history of hip-hop's critical place in American culture, but also hints at how we can best move forward." --Questlove JAY-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael...

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How Ruffhouse Records founder Chris Schwartz overcame poverty, abuse, and addiction to start one of the most pivotal labels in hip-hop history and launch the careers of some of music's biggest stars "All respect to Chris Schwartz. He is a gre...

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A panoramic experience that tells the story of Beastie Boys, a book as unique as the band itself-by band members ADROCK and Mike D, with contributions from Amy Poehler, Colson Whitehead, Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson, Luc Sante, and more. Formed as a ...

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The sequel to the New York Times bestseller Whatever You Say I Am , chronicling the last 20 years of rapper Eminem's life, based on new, exclusive interviews with the artist, his friends, family, and associates.

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Urban God Talk: Constructing a Hip Hop Spirituality, edited by Andre Johnson, is a collection of essays that examine the religious and spiritual in hip hop. The contributors argue that the prevailing narrative that hip hop offers nothing in the wa...

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One of music's most popular--and headline making--rap artists shares his private reflections, drawings, handwritten lyrics, and never-before-seen photographs.

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The Hip Hop & Obama Reader explores the political, social, and cultural significance of hip hop in the age of Obama. By exploring the contentious and complex interactions between popular culture and contemporary politics, it raises questions about...

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When noted rapper Eminem commanded his audience's attention in his 2000 megahit release "The Real Slim Shady" and queried in the lyrics, "Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?", the authors took the question seriously and began to search for t...

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The New York Times bestselling memoir from the legendary Gucci Mane spares no detail in this "cautionary tale that ends in triumph" (GQ). For the first time Gucci Mane tells his extraordinary story in his own words. It is "as wild, ...

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A New York Times Best Seller A February IndieNext Pick Named A Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Buzzfeed, Nylon, The A. V. Club, CBC Books, and The Rumpus. And a Winter's Most Anticipated Book by Vanity Fair and The Week Starred Reviews: Kirkus an...

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Decoded" is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time. 368 pp.

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Hip hop has long been a vehicle for protest in the United States, used by its primarily African American creators to address issues of prejudice, repression, and exclusion. But the music is now a worldwide phenomenon, and outside the United States...

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Early hip hop film musicals have either been expunged from cinema history or excoriated in brief passages by critics and other writers. Hip Hop on Film reclaims and reexamines productions such as Breakin' (1984), Beat Street (1984), and Krush Groo...

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The first book, the definitive book from HIP-HOP'S ORIGINAL DYNASTY! Long awaited and much anticipated, The Wu-Tang Manual is The RZA's first written introduction to the philosophy and history of Hip-Hop's original Dynasty, the Wu-Tang Clan. Since...

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