Westsiders: Stories of Boys in the Hood

Dead Precedents

Roy Christopher

On the Come Up

Angie Thomas

Sweat the Technique

Rakim

Dark of the West

Joanna Hathaway

Diary of a Madman

Brad "Scarface" Jordan

Gang Town

Dr. Don Pinnock

Detroit 67

Stuart Cosgrove

Dodgers

Disco's Out...Murder's In!: The True Story of Frank the Shank and L.A.'s Deadliest Punk Rock Gang

Heath Mattioli

Rap Year Book, The

Shea Serrano

Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present

David William Foster

Hip-hop in Houston The Origin & the Legacy

Maco L. Faniel

Dirty South : OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop

Ben Westhoff

Thug Life - Race, Gender and The Meaning of Hip Hop

Michael Alpert

Rebels in Paradise The Los Angeles Art Scene and the 1960s

Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

The Vulture

Gil Scott-Heron

Gang Leader for a Day

Sudhir Venkatesh

Waiting for the sun

Barney Hoskyns

A World of Gangs Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture

John Hagedorn

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

Molefi K. Asante

Hip Hop Revolution - The Culture and Politics of Rap

Jeffrey Armstrong

When Rap Music Had a Conscience: The Artists, Organizations and Historic Events that Inspired and Influenced the Golden Age of Hip-Hop

Tayannah Lee McQuillar

Know what I mean?

Michael Eric Dyson

From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens

50 Cent

Nuthin' but a "G" Thang The Culture and Commerce of Gangsta Rap

Eithne Quinn

Why White Kids Love Hip-hop Wankstas, Wiggers, Wannabes, and the New Reality of Race in America

Bakari Kitwana

Queens Reigns Supreme Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip Hop Hustler

Ethan Brown

Raising Hell The Reign, Ruin, and Redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay

Ronin Ro

Gangs A Journey Into the Heart of the British Underworld

Tony Thompson

Back In The Day

Darrin Keith Bastfield

The outsiders

S.E. Hinton

Rap and Hip Hop: Examining Pop Culture

Jared Green

Brave Nu World

Tommy Udo

Rebel for the Hell of It The Life of Tupac Shakur

Armond White

Chopper

Mark Brandon Read

Back in the Days

Jamel Shabbaz

Bomb the Suburbs

William Upski Wimsatt

The Gangster of Love

Jessica Hagedorn

The white boy shuffle

Paul Beatty

West coast story

Rob Burt