Rap & Hip-Hop

Don Letts filmmaker, musician, DJ, broadcaster, social commentator, husband and father has always defied conformity. A British-born son of Windru...

Musicians rapping in kriolu--a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde--have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery....

In this book, Jabari Evans examines Chicagos controversial Drill rap scene and the always-on nature of social media for these musicians, who are of...

Just as Andy Warhol: Red Books defined a generation of artists, Big Shots offers a collection of photos that captures the energy of the world of hi...

This long-awaited volume is the first edited collection to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia. Bringing together both scholarly and practitione...

__________'Essential reading' Rolling Stone'A must read. The best bit of literature currently out there on Kendrick Lamar' VICE __________Kendrick ...

In Breaks in the Air John Klaess tells the story of raps emergence on New York Citys airwaves by examining how artists and broadcasters adapted hip...

In Breaks in the Air John Klaess tells the story of raps emergence on New York Citys airwaves by examining how artists and broadcasters adapted hip...

Beats Not Beatings: The Rise of Hip Hop Criminology is a powerful, radical, intersectional scholarly-activist collection of liberation-based articl...

On the heels of Kendrick Lamars Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musicia...

All respect to Chris Schwartz. He is a great visionary.Nas Fans of these artists will love the insider information.Library Journal Before he star...

'One of the most rewarding pieces of hip-hop criticism ever written' Jeff Chang 'Brilliant' Giles Peterson 'Will Ashon's dazzling study gets to th...

Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed is an extended photo essay with more than two hundred images that represent a mid-career retrospective of B+s pho...