While a planned Grammy television special celebrating the anniversary is on hold due to the writers’ strike, he does have something else in the works to commemorate it: A book titled “Hip-Hop ...

When Dr. Todd Boyd began cognitively crafting “Rapper’s Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made the World” as a child growing ... by DJ Kool Herc in 1973. “This book is about the culture, the music ...

What follows is a list of 11 books on hip-hop that are essential for any fan ... the city and his home on Long Island, the spiritual world and the corporeal. In Sweat the Technique, Rakim recounts ...

Hip-hop was supposed to be a fad. The influential genre that would eventually swallow the world and spit out the ... to know where hip-hop is going to end up, especially considering all the ...

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, founder and drummer of The Roots, has written a new book. "Hip-Hop Is History" is a very ... but I generally would like to leave the world better than when I came ...

With his new coffee table book, Rapper’s Deluxe: How Hip-Hop Made the World, Dr. Boyd celebrates the evolution of the culture with a book made especially for grown and sexy hip-hop heads.

He added, “As you go through the book, which moves in an arc, so many things happen within the culture that by the time you reach the end. It’s also like when Hip-Hop was primarily released on ...