Hip Hop Resources: Books

"K for the way" : DJ rhetoric and literacy for twenty-first-century writing studies

Explores multiliteracies and the ideas of composition, rhetoric, and literacy from the perspective of the hip-hop DJ, conducting a larger qualitative research study that illustrates the DJ as a new media reader, writer, and literary critic"

Freedom moves : hip hop knowledges, pedagogies, and futures

Graffiti grrlz : performing feminism in the hip hop diaspora

Hip-hop (and other things) : a collection of questions asked, answered, illustrated

Hip hop raised me

Fresh fly fabulous : 50 years of hip hop style

When the beat was born : DJ Kool Herc and the creation of hip hop

Hip hop America

Hip hop speaks to children : a celebration of poetry with a beat

The come up : an oral history of the rise of hip-hop

On the come up

Hip-hop as philosophical text and testimony : can I get a witness?

Hip-hop at the end of the world : the photography of Ernie Paniccioli

Chronicling Stankonia : the rise of the hip-hop South

Breakbeat pedagogy : hip-hop and spoken word beyond the classroom walls

Sweat the technique : revelations on creativity from the lyrical genius

Can't stop, won't stop : a history of the hip-hop generation

How to rap : the art and science of the hip-hop MC

It was all a dream : Biggie and the world that made him

Hip-hop and spoken word therapy in school counseling : developing culturally responsive approaches

Performing identity/performing culture : hip hop as text, pedagogy, and lived practice

Teaching with hip hop in the 7-12 grade classroom : a guide to supporting students' critical development through hip hop texts