The University of Hip-Hop is a love letter to the city of Chicago, more specifically a particular moment in Chicago - of growth and development, coming of age, of learning how to construct a new self from old-world customs and new-school traditions. It is a meditation on movement and migration that [...]

In this lively ethnography Ian Condry interprets Japan's vibrant hip-hop scene, explaining how music and culture that originated halfway around the world is appropriated and remade in Tokyo clubs and recording studios. Illuminating different aspects of Japanese hip-hop, Condry chronicles how self-de[...]

Hip Hop has dominated popular culture for the last decade, bringing a new flavour to all aspects of life, from fashion to advertising and television to language, and, of course, music. With "How to Draw Hip-Hop", this new style of drawing is brought to life by co-authors Damion Scott, a noted comic [...]

In the case of hip-hop, the forces of top-down corporatization and bottom-up globalization are inextricably woven. This volume takes the view that hip-hop should not be viewed with this dichotomous dynamic in mind and that this dynamic does not arise solely outside of the continental US. Close analy[...]

An editor for BPM Culture offers an overview of "Dirty South" rap--a phenomenon centered around cities such as Atlanta, Miami, and New Orleans--covering such groups as The Neptunes, Timbaland, OutKast, Lil Jon, Ludacris, Cee-Lo, and others. Original.[...]

Throughout Africa, artists use hip-hop both to describe their lives and to create shared spaces for uncensored social commentary, feminist challenges to patriarchy, and resistance against state institutions, while at the same time engaging with the global hip-hop community. In Hip-Hop in Africa, Msi[...]

Grown-up colouring book featuring drawings of hip-hop culture.

When the crack era jumped off in the 1980s, many street legends were born in a hail of gunfire. Business minded and ruthless dudes seized the opportunities afforded them, and certain individuals out of the city's five boroughs became synonymous with the definition of the new era black gangster. Drug[...]