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  Picture Me Rollin'

  by Black Artemis

  In this hardcore novel of love and betrayal, a female ex-con moved by the power, poetry, and dangerous passion of Tupac Shakur has plans to play it straight and do the right thing for her future survival. But her lover Jesus, the man she went to prison for on a gun possession charge, is intent on bringing her back into his game. She finds herself caught between inescapable yet contradictory forces-the passion for... (more)
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  Explicit Content

  by Black Artemis

  Cassandra Rivers and Leila Aponte have been puttin' it down as Sabrina Steelo and Fatal Beauty on the underground hip hop scene. Even though Cassie dreams of working it like Wu Tang while Leila fantasizes about becoming the Latina Big Pun, it's all good because they're as tight in life as they are on the mic. But when G Double D, founder of gangsta rap label Explicit Content, seduces Fatal with promises of solo... (more)
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  Have You Met Miss Jones?: The Life and Loves of Radio's Most Controversial Diva

  by Tarsha Nicole Jones

  “Even though I’ve tried to wear glass slippers, somebody has deliberately knocked them off my feet. Because of that, I have walked the earth emotionally barefoot, and expressed my lack of self-esteem and rage in ways that clouded my judgment. I was a participant in a lot of drama. Didn’t mean to be . . . it was never my intention.” So confesses Tarsha Jones, host of New York’s popular radio show Miss Jones in the... (more)
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  The Message: 100 Life Lessons from Hip-Hop's Greatest Songs

  by Felicia Pride

  In this book of life lessons culled from hip-hop culture, author Felicia Pride examines a wide range of hip-hop songs and artists, interpreting life through their lenses. Growing up with hip-hop, Pride has come to realize the way it shaped how she thinks, writes, and reacts, making her the person she is today. By incorporating her own experiences and reflections with the rapper's message, she focuses on the... (more)
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  Prophets Of The Hood: Politics And Poetics In Hip Hop

  by Imani Perry

  At once the most lucrative, popular, and culturally oppositional musical force in the United States, hip hop demands the kind of interpretation Imani Perry provides here—criticism engaged with this vibrant musical form on its own terms. A scholar and a fan, Perry considers the art, politics, and culture of hip hop through an analysis of song lyrics, the words of the prophets of the hood. Recognizing prevailing... (more)
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  Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation

  by Natalie Hopkinson

  Two smart Black women break the Tyrone code — with affection, with respect, but with no illusions. Black men as fathers, sons, teachers, lovers, rap stars, professionals, fantasy objects, and cultural constructs — a multifaceted picture of American Black men today. You know Tyrone. Smooth-talking, irresistible Tyrone — the swagger in his step, the sexy drawl, the poetry and rhythm in his essence — the militant... (more)
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  Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-hop Feminism Anthology

  by Gwendolyn D. Pough

  Home Girls Make Some Noise: Hip Hop Feminist Anthology seeks to complicate understandings of Hip-Hop as a male space by including and identifying the women who were always involved with the culture. The anthology explores Hip-Hop as a worldview, as an epistemology grounded in the experiences of communities of color under advanced capitalism, as a cultural site for rearticulating identity and sexual politics. With... (more)
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  Check It While I Wreck It: Black Womanhood, Hip-Hop Culture, and the Public Sphere

  by Gwendolyn D. Pough

  Hip-hop culture began in the early 1970s as the creative and activist expressions -- graffiti writing, dee-jaying, break dancing, and rap music -- of black and Latino youth in the depressed South Bronx, and the movement has since grown into a worldwide cultural phenomenon that permeates almost every aspect of society, from speech to dress. But although hip-hop has been assimilated and exploited in the mainstream,... (more)
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  Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold on Young Black Women

  by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting

  " Pimps Up, Ho's Down provides a vital critical assessment of the sexual exploitation of women and girls all too prevalent in hip hop culture and in our larger society. This intelligent and sensitively written study is mandatory reading for those of us who must stop the violence." --Darlene Clark Hine, co-author of A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America "This compelling,... (more)
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  New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone

  by Raquel Z. Rivera

  New York Puerto Ricans have been an integral part of hip hop culture since the very beginning: from 1970s pioneers like Rock Steady Crew's Jo-Jo, to recent rap mega-stars Big Punisher and Angie Martinez. Yet, Puerto Rican participation and contributions to hip hop is frequently downplayed, if not completely ignored. When their presence has been acknowledged, it is usually misinterpreted as a defection from Puerto... (more)