Music:

Check the Technique
Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Written by Brian Coleman

Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $18.00

A Tribe Called Quest • Beastie Boys • De La Soul • Eric B. & Rakim • The Fugees • KRS-One • Pete Rock & CL Smooth • Public Enemy • The Roots • Run-DMC • Wu-Tang Clan • and twenty-five more hip-hop immortals

It’s a sad fact: hip-hop album liners have... Read more >

Triksta
Life and Death and New Orleans Rap
Written by Nik Cohn

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $13.95

In Triksta, a masterful observer of movements that emerge from dark corners to become worldwide phenomena–early rock ’n’ roll and “Saturday Night Fever,” to name but two –gives us a mesmerizing account of a city, its music, and a way of life that often embraces death.

Nik Cohn’s love of hip-hop goes... Read more >

Check the Technique
Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
Written by Brian Coleman

Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $18.00

A Tribe Called Quest • Beastie Boys • De La Soul • Eric B. & Rakim • The Fugees • KRS-One • Pete Rock & CL Smooth • Public Enemy • The Roots • Run-DMC • Wu-Tang Clan • and twenty-five more hip-hop immortals

It’s a sad fact: hip-hop album liners have... Read more >

Beats Rhymes & Life
What We Love and Hate About Hip-Hop
Written by Ytasha Womack
Edited by Kenji Jasper
Foreword by Michael Eric Dyson

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2007
Price: $14.00

Our generation made hip-hop. But hip-hop also made us. Why are suburban kids referring to their subdivision as “block”? Why has the pimp become a figure of male power? Why has dodging the feds become an act of honor long after one has made millions as a legitimate artist? What happens...

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Triksta
Life and Death and New Orleans Rap
Written by Nik Cohn

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $13.95

Acclaimed music writer Nik Cohn’s love of hip-hop goes back to its beginnings, and his love of New Orleans even further, to when he passed through the Big Easy on tour with The Who and discovered a place with a magic that never failed to seize him. On the surface he’s... Read more >

Whatever You Say I Am
The Life and Times of Eminem
Written by Anthony Bozza

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: September 28, 2004
Price: $13.95

does eminem matter?

On assignment for his first cover story for Rolling Stone, the very first national cover story on Eminem, Anthony Bozza met a young blond kid, a rapper who would soon take the country by storm. But back in 1999, Eminem was just beginning to make waves among suburban white... Read more >

Hip Hoptionary TM
The Dictionary of Hip Hop Terminology
Written by Alonzo Westbrook

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $12.95

The bumpin’ book for hip-hop disciples (a.k.a. fiends), songwriters, all other writers, pop culture fans, linguists, and parents who are just trying to figure out what their kids are saying.

The inventive sounds of hip-hop (which became America’s number two music genre in 2001, outselling country) have echoed far from their Bronx... Read more >

Hip Hoptionary TM
The Dictionary of Hip Hop Terminology
Written by Alonzo Westbrook

Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: October 15, 2002
Price: $12.95

The bumpin’ book for hip-hop disciples (a.k.a. fiends), songwriters, all other writers, pop culture fans, linguists, and parents who are just trying to figure out what their kids are saying.

The inventive sounds of hip-hop (which became America’s number two music genre in 2001, outselling country) have echoed far from their Bronx... Read more >