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E.A.R.L.
The Autobiography of DMX
E.A.R.L.
The Autobiography of DMX
Raised in the ghetto, abandoned as a child, addicted to drugs and women all his life but still able to produce four consecutive #1 hip-hop...
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The Hip Hop Wars
What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop — and Why It Matters
Sold outThe Hip Hop Wars
What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop — and Why It Matters
How hip hop shapes our conversations about race — and how race influences our consideration of hip hopHip hop is a distinctive form of black...
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The Queen Bee
(Pre-Order, Sep 23 2025)
The Queen Bee
(Pre-Order, Sep 23 2025)
A fearless, inspiring, and refreshingly candid memoir by the Grammy-award winning rapper, multi-platinum recording artist, and cultural icon Lil' Kim When teenager Kimberly Denise Jones--better...
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Boyz N the Void
A Mixtape to My Brother
Boyz N the Void
A Mixtape to My Brother
Writing to his brother, G'Ra Asim reflects on building his own identity while navigating Blackness, masculinity, and young adulthood--all through wry social commentary and music/pop...
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My Dog Romeo
Ziggy Marley's ode to his four-legged friend Romeo becomes a picture book that is sure to touch the hearts of dog lovers everywhere. My Dog...
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Organic Music Societies
Archival documents and new writings on the intermedia collaborations of avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry Don Cherry and Moki Karlsson...
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In Defense of Whitney Houston
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In Defense of Whitney Houston
A candid exploration of the genius, shame, and celebrity of Whitney Houston a decade after her passingOn February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found submerged...
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The Marathon Don't Stop
The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
The Marathon Don't Stop
The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
The first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and...
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Why Solange Matters
(Music Matters)
Why Solange Matters
(Music Matters)
A Black feminist punk performer and important new voice recounts the dramatic story of an incandescent musician and artist whose unconventional journey to international success...
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Why Bushwick Bill Matters
(Music Matters)
Why Bushwick Bill Matters
(Music Matters)
In 1989 the Geto Boys released a blistering track, "Size Ain't Shit," that paid tribute to the group's member Bushwick Bill. Born with dwarfism, Bill...
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Chronicling Stankonia
The Rise of the Hip-Hop South
Chronicling Stankonia
The Rise of the Hip-Hop South
This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a...
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Chuck II (Limited-Edition Cassette)
Dual-sided beat tape produced by DJ Jihaari & Super Sport Lo. As they say in the Bay, cassette releases are hella rare. This is a limited-run...
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Unpretty
Side A Unpretty (Album Version) 4:01 Unpretty (Don't Look Any Further Remix) 4:26 Unpretty (Don't Look Any Further Remix Acappella) 4:26 Side B Unpretty (Pumpin'...
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Clean Up Woman
"Clean Up Woman" is a song by Betty Wright from her second studio album, I Love the Way You Love (1972). Written and produced by Clarence Reid and Willie Clarke, it was...
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On How Life Is
An instant success, the album reached #4 on the Billboard 200 and featured the chart-topping single "I Try". with a contemporary mix of Hip Hop...
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Wild is the Wind
Nina Simone's sixth album for Philips Records was Wild Is the Wind, released in 1966. The album was compiled from several recordings that were left...
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The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
A kaleidoscopic fictional oral history of the beloved rock ’n’ roll duo who shot to fame in 1970s New York, and the dark, fraught secret...
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Liner Notes for the Revolution
The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Liner Notes for the Revolution
The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
An award-winning Black feminist music critic takes us on an epic journey through radical sound from Bessie Smith to Beyoncé.Daphne A. Brooks explores more than...
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The Motherlode
100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop
The Motherlode
100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop
An illustrated highlight reel of more than 100 women in rap who have helped shape the genre and eschewed gender norms in the process The Motherlode highlights...
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I Too Sing America
The Harlem Renaissance at 100
I Too Sing America
The Harlem Renaissance at 100
Winner of the James A. Porter and David C. Driskell Book Award for African American Art History, I Too Sing America offers a major survey on the...
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Here I Stand
Robeson's international achievements as a singer and actor in starring roles on stage and screen made him the most celebrated black American of his day,...
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Hip-Hop Architecture
“This book is not for you. It is not for architectural academic elites. It is not for those who have gentrified our neighborhoods, overly intellectualized...
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Now & Then
Poems
Now And Then is not merely a collection of a songwriter’s lyrics; the song-poems of this undisputed ‘bluesologist’ triumphantly stand on their own, evoking the rhythm...
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Contact High
A Visual History of Hip-Hop
Contact High
A Visual History of Hip-Hop
The perfect gift for music and photography fans, an inside look at the work of hip-hop photographers told through their most intimate diaries—their contact sheets.Featuring...
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