Category - Music
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Together Forever: The Run-DMC and Beastie Boys Photographs
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /"People always get caught up in what these two iconic groups stood for, but can we just step back for a moment and say, who gives a fuck? They we...
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Talking 'Bout Your Mama: The Dozens, Snaps, and the Deep Roots of Rap
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From Two Live Crew's controversial comedy to Ice Cube's gangsta styling and the battle rhymes of a streetcorner cypher, rap has always drawn on d...
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Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Winner: W. E. B. Du Bois Book Award In the world of hip-hop, "keeping it real" has always been a primary goal—and realness takes on special meani...
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To Live and Defy in LA: How Gangsta Rap Changed America
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /How gangsta rap shocked America, made millions, and pulled back the curtain on an urban crisis. How is it that gangsta rap--so dystopian that it ...
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The Murder of Biggie Smalls
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In this second edition of The Murder of Biggie Smalls, Cathy Scott delves behind the scenes to pore over police records, coroner reports, FBI fil...
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Foundation: B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York
PaperbackOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /B-boying is a form of Afro-diasporic competitive dance that developed in the Bronx, NY in the early 1970s. Widely - though incorrectly - known as...
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Understand Rap: Explanations of Confusing Rap Lyrics You and Your Grandma Can Understand
PaperbackOriginal price $14.99 - Original price $14.99Original price $14.99$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Although rap music is famous for its ingenuity, double entendres and clever turns of phrase, until now no one has attempted to collect rap lyrics...
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Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Based on police wiretaps and exclusive interviews with drug kingpins and hip-hop insiders, this is the untold story of how the streets and housin...
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Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Lobotomy is a lurid and unlikely temperance tract from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. Taking readers on a wild rollercoaster ride from his craz...
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The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /How hip hop shapes our conversations about race — and how race influences our consideration of hip hop Hip hop is a distinctive form of black art...
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The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Gospel of Hip Hop: First Instrument, the first book from the I Am Hip Hop, is the philosophical masterwork of KRS ONE. Set in the format of t...
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How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Clipse, Cypress Hill, Nelly, Public Enemy, Remy Ma, Schoolly D, A Tribe Called Quest, will.i.am—these are just some of the acclaimed artists offe...
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Tupac Shakur: The Life and Times of an American Icon
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A passionate, critically incisive cultural biography of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur and an examination of the forces that shaped him. In 1996 Tupac...
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J Dilla's Donuts
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /From a Los Angeles hospital bed, equipped with little more than a laptop and a stack of records, James "J Dilla" Yancey crafted a set of tracks t...
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Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made is a vivid journey into the heart of a misunderstood subculture. Through firsthand reporting,...
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Original Gangstas: Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"Raw, authoritative, and unflinching ... An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era." — Kirkus, sta...
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Chuck D Presents This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A one-of-a kind survey of rap and hip hop history from 1973 to today by Chuck D, arguably the most influential rapper in the world. In the more t...
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Look at Me!: The XXXTENTACION Story
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /A compelling biography of SoundCloud sensation and rising star XXXTENTACION -- from his candid songwriting and connection with fans to his tragic...
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Do Remember!: The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00Original price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00Current price $40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Do Remember! The Golden Era of NYC Hip-Hop Mixtapes is the first comprehensive deep-dive oral and visual history of the golden era of hip-hop mix...
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Rap Capital: An Atlanta Story
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An “impassioned tribute” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the most influential music culture today, Atlanta rap—a masterful, street-level s...
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BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the early 1990s, Demetrius "Big Meech" Flenory and his brother, Terry "Southwest T," rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the lar...
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Beastie Boys
HardcoverOriginal price $55.00Original price $55.00 - Original price $55.00Original price $55.00Current price $47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The first book of photography to be published by the Academy Award-winning film director and photographer Spike Jonze. Will appeal to every fan o...
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The Healing Power of Hip Hop
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /Using the latest research, real-world examples, and a new theory of healthy development, this book explains Hip Hop culture's ongoing role in hel...
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Once Upon a Time in Shaolin: The Untold Story of Wu-Tang Clan's Million-Dollar Secret Album, the Devaluation of Music, and America's New Public Ene
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The untold story of the world's most controversial album---a surreal tale of secret recordings, the Wu-Tang Clan, baffled customs agents, the world...
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