Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Jeff Chang
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
Dan Charnas
Hip-Hop Is History
Ahmir Thompson
When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
Joan Morgan
The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip-Hop
Jonathan Abrams
First Things First: Hip-Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game
Nadirah Simmons
The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop
Dan Charnas
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
Ed Piskor
Never Far from Home: My Journey from Brooklyn to Hip Hop, Microsoft, and the Law
Bruce Jackson
The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop
Kevin Coval
Counterculture: The Story of America from Bohemia to Hip-Hop
Alex Zamalin
Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur
Sy Montgomery
When the Beat Was Born: DJ Kool Herc and the Creation of Hip Hop (Coretta Scott King - John Steptoe Award for New Talent)
Laban Carrick Hill
The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters
Tricia Rose
Fashion Killa: How Hip-Hop Revolutionized High Fashion
Sowmya Krishnamurthy
How to Rap: The Art and Science of the Hip-Hop MC
Paul Edwards
The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop
Saul Williams
Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Brian Coleman
Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
Adam Bradley
Bomb the Suburbs: Graffiti, Race, Freight-Hopping and the Search for Hip Hop's Moral Center
William Upski Wimsatt