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 ...

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.

Books have a high place in hip-hop. As I've pointed out in the various ... literary works written by authors from around the world and throughout the ages. This song name-drops and quotes Toni ...

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 ...

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 ...