Rap & Hip-Hop

______________________THE #MERKY STORY SO FAR Edited and co-written by Jude YawsonContributions by Team #MerkyImages by Kaylum Dennis‘It’s been a l...

J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. "I play just like my father," he says. "Before my father die...

This biography, the most in-depth look at Kanye's life and career to date, lifts the mask to expose the man behind the endless myths. Featuring qu...

Celebrated in hardcover, a deeply reported and richly textured biography of Christopher Wallace—now in paperback!The Notorious B.I.G. was one of th...

This book celebrates Madvillainy as a representation of two genius musical minds melding to form one revered supervillain. A product of circumstanc...

“Ferranti continues to amaze us with the most infamous OGs and their unfathomable street life.”—The Source“Seth Ferranti is one of the most prolifi...

On a hot summer night in August of 1973 DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy put on a 'back to school jam' in the recreation room of their apartment b...

In a definitive and “excellent homage to a star who left this planet too soon” (Questlove), the life, career, tragic death, and evolution of Aaliya...

A modern epic about the most consequential music culture today, Atlanta rap—a masterful, street-level story of art, money, race, class, and salvati...

HOLD TIGHT is the book that kick started the 'Grime Library'. Bursting into bookshops in July 2017 to rave reviews and a sold out event at Rough Tr...

Trip-hop described some of the 1990s’ best music, and it was one of the decade’s most revealing bad ideas. This book chronicles the music and its l...

The instant New York Times bestseller and “inspiring and vulnerable” (Trevor Noah) memoir from Bobby Hall, the multiplatinum recording artist known...

First substantial overview of the life and career of Pharrell Williams, the foremost producer of the modern era, and performer in his own right. It...

On the tenth anniversary of his death, The Dirty Version is the first biography of hip hop superstar and founding member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Ol' D...