Rap & Hip Hop

CZARFACE'S ULTIMATE ORIGIN REVEALED! Hero to some, villain to others, Czarface's true origins have remained a mystery...UNTIL NOW! Who are the Zarta Ku? And why has their desperate mission brought them to Planet Earth? Meanwhile, Zach and his dog were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556528163Author Paul EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint A Cappella BooksPublisher A Cappella BooksWeight(grams) 240g

This is the definitive biography of rap supergroup and cultural icons, Wu-Tang Clan (WTC). Heralded as one of the most influential groups in modern music-hip hop or otherwise-WTC created a rap dynasty on the strength of seven gold and platinum albums...

One of the UK's most exciting up-and-coming hip-hop artists, Scroobius Pip is a master of the spoken word lyric. From his childhood musings in the school playground to his feelings on the rat race, Pip has selected from his online fan collective artistic...

Welcome to The Periodic Table of Hip Hop. Instead of hydrogen to helium, here you'll find James Brown to Kanye West - 94 artists that have defined Hip Hop arranged following the logic of The Periodic Table of Elements. MCs, DJs, rappers and producers...

'Groundbreaking... Part memoir, part guide, this is a must-have.' Independent'A worthwhile tutorial.' Evening Standard"Poetry and rap come from the same family. They're brothers. Just because you're good at one doesn't necessarily mean you'll be good at...

A first of its kind collection, How to Rap is an insightful and intelligent breakdown of the elements of rap for anyone wanting to learn the art form or understand the principles behind it. Author Paul Edwards examines the dynamics of hip hop from every...

It was never easy for Professor Green. Born into a tough Hackney estate and raised by his grandmother, the rapper was always learning the hard way - whether at school, on the streets of east London or on stage during impromptu freestyle battles. Indeed,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593230657Author FAT JOEFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Street Literature Book Award Medal (Slbam) (General) 2011.Book InformationISBN 9781400068920Author Jay-ZFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House...

Celebrated in hardcover, a deeply reported and richly textured biography of Christopher Wallace-now in paperback!The Notorious B.I.G. was one of the most charismatic and talented artists of the 1990s. Born Christopher Wallace and raised in Clinton...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576871065Author Jamel ShabazzFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 750g

With ongoing debates on Scottish independence, immigration, Britain's place in the EU, multiculturalism, national identity and the specter of a past Empire complicating ethnically-defined notions of "Britishness," the Kingdom seems far from United. As a...

When they met for the first time in Los Angeles in 1993, the Beastie Boys and Spike Jonze were rising stars of their respective fields - the golden ages of both east coast hip hop and MTV. Immediately a connection formed between the three MCs and the...

In the late 80s, a group of high school dropouts, drug dealers, and ex-cons spoke out against racial injustice and police brutality. They did it through hip-hop. Their explosive popularity put their Los Angeles neighborhood of Compton on the map. They...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141527Author Chuck DFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

THE LIFE STORY OF THE LEGENDARY BRITISH DJ, NORMAN JAY MBE 'Full of the heart and spirit Norman Jay brings to his music, but it also offers a salutary account of growing up as part of the Windrush generation in London's Notting Hill, the violence and...

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 mixtape culture in New York City.From street corners to corner offices, mixtapes made a huge impact on the music...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916359826Author Sophie BramlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Soul Jazz RecordsPublisher Soul Jazz RecordsWeight(grams) 1760g

Arguably one of the most mainstream music styles today, rap was in fact born centuries ago in West Africa with historians or 'griots' who used to tell stories of the past over the beat of a drum. But it wasn't until the 1970s in New York that rapping as...

The first in-depth biography of one of music's most fascinating, colourful and innovative characters. This book is the most comprehensive history yet of the life, music and cultural significance of the last of the great black music pioneers and the era...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306922954Author Anthony BozzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061774607Author 50 CentPage Count 291Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 413g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780812977752Author Brian ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House USA...

What resonated about "Endtroducing" when it was released in 1996, and what makes it still resonate today, is the way in which it loosens itself from the mooring of the known and sails off into an uncharted territory that seems to exist both in and out of...

In his iconic musical travelogue Heavy Metal Islam, Mark LeVine first brought the views and experiences of a still-young generation to the world. In We'll Play till We Die, he joins with this generation's leading voices to write a definitive history of...

Christopher Weingarten's take on "Nation Of Millions" is a nuts-and-bolts account of how the Bomb Squad produced such a singular-sounding record - the engineering, sampling, scratching, constructing, deconstructing and reconstructing. How they re-sampled...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913689285Author Roy ChristopherFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Strange Attractor PressPublisher Strange Attractor Press

The World According to Questlove Mo' Meta Blues is a punch-drunk memoir in which Everyone's Favorite Questlove tells his own story while tackling some of the lates, the greats, the fakes, the philosophers, the heavyweights, and the true originals of the...

Lobotomy is the most lurid and unlikely temperance tract yet from the underbelly of rock 'n' roll. On a wild roller-coaster ride from his fucked-up childhood in Berlin and Munich to his lonely, methadone-quaffing stay at a cheap hotel in Earl's Court and...

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 block at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the west Bronx. The rest is history. The birth of hip hop rippled out...

An illustrated highlight reel of more than 100 women in rap who have helped shape the genre and eschewed gender norms in the process The Motherlode highlights more than 100 women who have shaped the power, scope, and reach of rap music, including...

The instant New York Times bestseller and "inspiring and vulnerable" (Trevor Noah) memoir from Bobby Hall, the multiplatinum recording artist known as Logic and the #1 bestselling author of Supermarket.This Bright Future is a raw and unfiltered journey...

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 popularity...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606998489Author Ed PiskorFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 534g

"Few books on popular music treat their subject so comprehensively, with thoughtful attention to ideology, history, and verbal and musical rhetoric. Miyakawa's approach is at once comprehensive and streamlined, making for an especially effective...

The definitive biography of Aaliyah-the talented R&B singer and artist whose tragic death at only twenty-two years old shocked the entertainment world and solidified her as an unforgettable music legend, featuring new in-depth research and exclusive...

The apex of critical praise and commercial success is a metric achieved by a select few. In 2020, Cardi B became synonymous with "record breaking" as her debut album Invasion of Privacy went five times platinum and became the longest charting record by a...

Cypress Hill is considered the first-ever Latin American hip hop group, and has sold over 20 million albums to date, with this graphic novel release timed to their 30th anniversary and activities and merchandise planned around itGraphic novel traces the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648230059Author Jamel ShabazzFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.