GETTIN’ LIT
What were gonna do here is create a HipHop Library. I invite all readers out there to make recommendations to add to the collection. Feel free to provide your thoughts & share your experience with the book. If the authors of these books would like to share some words with us, that would also be greatly appreciated. Here’s a few titles to get things started.
Antiracist Baby
- Ibram X. Kendi
The Art Of Mixing
-David Gibson
The Autobiography Of Malcolm X
- Alex Haley
The Autobiography Of An
Ex-Colored Man
- James Weldon Johnson
Back In The Days
- Ernie Panicciolo & Jamel Shabazz
Back To The Lab: HipHop Home Studios
- Ralph Rashid
Behind The Beat: HipHop Home Studios
- Ralph Rashid
Behold A Pale White Horse
- William Cooper
The Big Payback
- Don Charnas
Bomb The Suburbs
- William “Upski” Wimsatt
Book Of Rhymes: The Poetics Of HipHop
-Adam Bradley
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
- Jeff Chang
Check The Technique
- Brian Coleman
The Coldest Winter Ever
- Sister Souljah
The Color Purple
- Alice Walker
Creative Quest
- Questlove
Creative License
- Kembrew McLeod & Peter DiCola
Dapper Dan Made In Harlem
- Daniel R. Day
Decoded
- Jay-Z
Dopefiend
- Donald Goines
Dust & Grooves: Adventures In Record Collecting
- Eilon Paz
Ear Hustling: The Studio Blueprint
- Robert “Big Brizz” Brisbane
Everything You Need To About The Music Industry
-Donald S. Passman
Five Percenter Rap
- Felicia M. Miyakawa
Glory: The Manuscript
- Tracey Lee
Go Tell It On The Mountain
- James Baldwin
Goin’ Off
- Ben Merlis
The Gospel Of HipHop: The First Instrument
- KRS-ONE
Have Gun Will Travel
- Ronin Ro
Heavy: An American Memoir
- Kiese Laymon
Hiphop: a cultural odyssey
-jordan sommers
hip hop you don’t stop
-Lori Nelson
How To Rap
- Paul A. Edwards
Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl
- Harriet Jacobs
Invisible Man
- Ralph Ellison
The Legends Of HipHop
- Justin Bua
Lo-Life: An American Classic
- Jackson Blount & Rack-Lo
The Marrow Of Tradition
- Charles W. Chestnutt
Miles: The Autobiography
- Miles Davis & Quincy Troupe
The Men Behind Def Jam
- Alex Ogg
Mules & Men
- Zora Neale Hurston
Native Son
-Richard Wright
The New Jim Crow
- Michelle Alexander
No Half Steppin’
- Claude “Paradise” Gray
& Giuseppe “u. net” Pipitone
Only The Strong Survive
- Allen Iverson
Rakim Told Me
- Brian Coleman
The Rap Year Book
- Shea Serrano
Ready For Revolution
- Kwame Ture
A Rose That Grew From Concrete
- Tupac Shakur
Ruff House
- Chris Schwartz
Song Of Solomon
- Toni Morrison
The Spook Who Sat By The Door
-Sam Greenlee
Sweat the Technique
- Rakim
Roots
- Alex Haley
The Tao Of Wu
- The Rza w/Chris Norris
The Ultimate Sneaker Book
- Simon Wood
The Underground Railroad
- Colson Whitehead
Where Did You Get Those ?
- Bobbito Garcia
The World According To Fannie Davis
- Bridgett M. Davis
10 ways Not To Commit Suicide: A Memoir
- Darryl McDaniels & Darrell Dawsey
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624774/antiracist-baby-picture-book-by-ibram-x-kendi-illustrated-by-ashley-lukashevsky/
https://www.amazon.com/Back-Days-Jamel-Shabazz/dp/1576871061
https://www.amazon.com/Bomb-Suburbs-Graffiti-Freight-Hopping-Hip-Hops/dp/1933368551
https://www.amazon.com/Boombox-Project-Machines-Music-Underground/dp/0810982757
https://www.amazon.com/Check-the-Technique-2-book-series/dp/B074C7SL49
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/creative-license-1
https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Quest-Questlove/dp/0062670557
https://www.amazon.com/Dapper-Dan-Made-Harlem-Memoir/dp/0525510516
https://dustandgrooves.com/product/dust-grooves-adventures-in-record-collecting-2nd_ed/
https://mobile.twitter.com/earhustlingbook
https://www.amazon.in/Ego-Trips-Book-Rap-Lists/dp/B00P2PHTU2
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Percenter-Rap-Message-Profiles/dp/0253217636
https://www.traceyleemusic.com/product-page/glory-the-manuscript
https://www.amazon.com/Goin-Off-Story-Chillin-Records/dp/1947026321
https://www.amazon.com/Have-Gun-Will-Travel-Spectacular/dp/0704381028
https://www.amazon.com/Hip-Hop-Cultural-Odyssey-Jordan-Sommers/dp/0615410669
https://www.amazon.com/Lo-Life-American-Classic-Jackson-Blount/dp/1576878120
https://www.amazon.com/No-Half-Steppin-Pictorial-Hip-Hops/dp/0999212702
https://www.amazon.com/Rap-Year-Book-Important-Deconstructed/dp/1419718185
https://www.amazon.com/Ruffhouse-Streets-Philly-Top-Charts/dp/1635765994
https://www.amazon.com/Shirt-Kings-Pioneers-Hip-Fashion/dp/9185639575
https://www.amazon.com/Sweat-Technique-Elements-Writing-Anything-Rakim-ebook/dp/B07DHMS5QL
https://www.amazon.com/Tao-Wu-RZA/dp/1594484856