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HIP HOP BOOKS FOR URBAN CULTURE
Fight the Power : Rap, Race, and Reality
by CHUCK D, YUSUF JAH, SPIKE LEE
"Chuck D is the towering artist of Hip-Hop culture....His voice
challenges all of us!" --Cornel West, author of Race Matters
"Fight the Power will raise some hackles, generate some furor, and,
most importantly, get people thinking about the way things are, and why."
--Chicago Sun-Times.
Chuck discusses the role of heroes and role models in the black community, Hollywood's negative images of blacks, the effect of gangsta rap, its images on the country's youth and the war between east & west coast rappers that may have spawned the murder of Tupac Shakur, the role of athletes and entertainers in eroding and strengthening values, and other vital contemporary concerns.
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Water Running Off My Back Molefi K. Asante, Jr . This collection of poetry is a window into the mind and soul of a hip young poet intent on searching for the "truth in everything". Molefi Asante Jr. writes in the tradition of African American poets who have laid a foundation rich in culture and rhythm. With poems covering a wide range of themes-identity, relationships, and family his poems reveal a young poet with intense sensibilities to the multiplicity of human possibilities. |
Hip Hop America
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E.A.R.L. : The
Autobiography of DMX |
Tha Doggfather:
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The Murder of Biggie Smalls |
The Vibe History of Hip Hop |
I Make My Own Rules
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 Project GirlAUTHOR: JANET MCDONALD PRICE: $23.00 An eloquent account of a remarkable life, Project Girl should be placed on all high school and college reading lists and offered to anyone looking for a book beautifully written. Unique, unflinching, and totally absorbing, Project Girl names the terrors and rewards of life in worlds we had though mutually exclusive. |
The Pimp's
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The
Lies Hustlers Never Tell
Author: Shahida T. Fennell;
Book Description
A novel based on the trappings of the inner city, the men involved in illegal
activities and the women deceived by the lies told by these men.
About the Author
Shahida T. Fennell is the Author of "The Lies Hustlers Never Tell". An
innovative poet, writer and AIDS activist, this powerful Delaware-born novelist
is producing literature that promotes awareness to the current social issues
within the urban community.
Sis. Shahidah says: “This book is not about a particular person nor is it meant to offend anyone in or out of the game. There is a flip side to every coin and this book is touching my point of view based on my experience, which became “The Lies Hustlers Never Tell”. I’m not glorifying the game in any way, but the reality is there are only three things that can come out of the game: If you escape death, there’s always jail – if you miss that, you usually become the nigga’ you use to serve.”
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“This book was sensational. I like the characters as well as all of the many twist['s] and turn['s] of events that occurred throughout the book. Definitely a page turner. The character Ace is a "true hustler." Congratulations....
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Three tough Brooklyn women--Syndi, who is desperate to escape New York and her dysfunctional family; Angel, who meets her match in a man who knows how to play the game; and Cream, a single mother and stripper who gets embroiled in a dangerous scam--learn valuable lessons in life and love. There's a saying in Brooklyn that if you come from my part of town that you're from around the way. Well Sydni, Angel and Cream are all from around the way. They all live in Crown Heights, one of the most notorious sections of Brooklyn, but to them it's just a place they call home. Around the Way girls is a fast paced look at the life of three street smart woman who think they know it all but are about to get the lessons of their lives.
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Mike Black has it all: money, power, and everyone’s respect. His violent rise to power earned him the name Vicious Black. Although he has everything he ever wanted, none of it seems to matter until he becomes enchanted with Cassandra Sims.
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Streetlife is an in-depth graphic journey into the struggle of life as a young black male raised by America's inner city streets. This journey is not only Jihad's, but documented bits and pieces of every African-American mother's son's life. The private lives of so many that have revolved around him as he evolved thru childhood, adolescence and adulthood is profiled.
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She doesn't go looking for drama, it just happens to find her. Take for instance, her love life. Kayla's not satisfied with just one man. She has two-one she's in love with and another whom she's pregnant by. A ready-made formula for disaster, but will Kayla see it before everything blows up in her face? Her track record says no, but her friends and family can only hope. Drama Queen is a hilariously funny and fast-paced novel that offers king-size drama and entertainment.
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She's Got Issues will entice the genders and take them on a ride that will reinvent the meaning of friendship, understanding, and compassion, and allow them to love and lose without anger or judgment.
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The story of Ceazia a very attractive, very good girl who has just left the safety of her parents’ home and entered into the world of bad boys and fast money. Ceazia thinks the world belongs to her when she meets Vegas, one of the tidewater Virginia area’s most notorious drug dealers. Even though she knows a relationship with Vegas goes against everything her parents taught her, she still can’t resist his bad boy persona. He’s fine, sexy, and ready to give her anything her heart desires—just what the doctor ordered for a broke, wannabe diva. The only problem is this might just end up being the biggest mistake of her life. Ceazia thinks the world belongs to her when she meets Vegas, one of the tidewater Virginia area's most notorious drug dealers. Even though she knows a relationship with Vegas goes against everything her parents taught her, she still can't resist his bad boy persona.
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A Thug's Life is an emotional, non-stop thriller that will hold your attention from the first page. It's filled with sex, drugs, murder, and crime- all the key ingredients for a suspense filled urban novel. The author takes you intimately into the minds of the main characters as they struggle with their inner demons in an effort to survive this vicious test of wills. He inspires you to think and, at the same time, choose sides between Dayvon and Ty. He also shows you that the Thug Life is real and that no one can escape the game without paying a price. You will learn that the price might be your life or your soul.
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Chasin' It is an urban story twisted with jealousy, addiction, denial, obsession and deception. From Las Vegas's Caesars stage to life on Chicago's mean streets, the lessons are hard and many for Terri in this rite of passage tale like no other. Chasin' It will keep you spellbound from the first pages and fascinate you with a story like nothing you've ever read before. It is truly the wildest street story of them all.
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Travel with Lady Bug as she navigates through the hood putting every petty hustle into play to chase hard times away from her door. Never having a bit of shame, her low-lifed scams are a sure disgrace to any gold digger, sac chaser, guttersnipe or chicken head. For she falls at the bottom of the barrel weighting in at nothing less than a hoodrat!
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For best friends Mike, Max, and Ahmad, the bonds of friendship, love and respect, are put to the ultimate test as each one of them is forced to take a long, hard look at himself and the woman he loves. They all said their 'I do's,' but did they really understand what it meant?
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National bestselling author Parry "Ebonysatin" Brown and a few of her new literary friends Pat Simmons and Lisa Y. Watson have sat down and written a winner. Love is Blind contains three outrageously funny stories of love and life.
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Player, liar, and deceiver. These are words that Terrance and Malik use to describe Samuel "Street" Jamieson. They never considered him their father. They did not grieve his untimely death; they mourned his departure years ago, when he walked out of their lives unannounced, leaving their mother heartbroken. Nadine sees the same poisonous charm in her sons that she saw in Street. A father's absence is always present in the lives of his sons. Unsuppressed anger, hatred, and bitterness fester in Terrance and Malik. These emotions surface to a crescendo when they are faced with circumstances that threaten to shatter their world. Can they learn to forgive?
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Crime Lover: Roy Glenn has done it again. This book the the bomb. Travis and his crew had the robbing game down tight.
Also recommended: Is it a
crime; Dutch
shanise (babygurl4life8@yahoo.com), person who loves to
read,
Mob Lover
Who says crime dosen't pay? Becauseis ure does for Travis
Burn. He's the leader of a well organised robbing crew known only as MOB
and he and his crew are living the good life. They target banks,
supermarket, jewellers, and anything else that they can hit quick and
come away with a large return.
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Shareka (Msfenae@yahoo.com), an avid Book Lover,
February 16, 2005,
 
Worth 6 Stars !
Drama Drama Drama... I think this was better than Part 1.
Terrell had so much drama in his life that I didnt think he was going to
straighten up at all. Roni was devious and messed up a good thing . I
should have knew something was up w/her going out of town for a week and
she is a school teacher. She should have been named Drama Queen in this
book. It ended cute with Uncle Jay claiming he was Darla's baby daddy !!
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The Bomb!
This book is the bomb! I couldn't even but the book down. I
think that everyone should read it.
Also recommended: A Hustler
Wife, A Gangster Girl, and Bad Girlz.
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Shakedown
Paris Hightower, is a sexy young thang who falls in love
with the man of her dreams, Tyree Dickerson, the son of very wealthy
Real Estate tycoons. But there’s a problem…. Tyree’s mother (Mrs.
Dickerson) thinks that her son is too good for Paris and is dead-set on
destroying the relationship at all costs.
After Mrs. Dickerson reveals a long-kept secret to
Paris about her mother (Ebony Hightower), a woman that abandoned Paris
and her brother more than fifteen years ago when she was forced to flee
and hide from police amidst Attempted-Murder charges for shooting Paris’
father --- Paris is left in an impossible situation. |
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Project Chick by Nikki Turner, Nikki Turner Nikkie Turner Tressa is a fly girl accustomed to the lavish lifestyle that her possessive, deranged, baby’s daddy, Lucky, has provider her with. In order to keep her high post standards of living, she has excused so many of his unforgivable actions. It is not until he pulls off the ultimate stunt that she realizes that no mink coat, car, house or any amount of money is worth her peace of mind. |
 Dutch
by Teri Woods, BERNARD JAMES
Real street credibility....
This book is a must. It kept me on my feet everytime when
something crazy would happen in every chapter. Dutch is a person who
really didn't care about anything or anyone.
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Hustler's Wife by Nikki Turner Urban Trendsetters Magazine "You are now crowned the Princess of Hip-Hop Fiction. Arise and take your rightfully earned seat on the thrown!" |
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Girlz by Shannon Holmes Taken under the wing of Kat, a veteran stripper, Tender and Goldie must turn to the streets and strip clubs as a way to survive difficult times. |
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Player Haters
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From the beginning of the book, I just knew that it would be filled w/drama ! It was a let down and the ending of the book just was crazy. I thought maybe Rah-Lo would have found out about Ish and Celeste or maybe Celeste and Asia would have had a few choice words or something. But it didn't end that way. It would have been better even if Rah-Lo would have ended up in ATL w/Celeste and decided that is where he wanted to be to end the drug game. But it just ended w/?'s and left me full of guesses. |
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THE BEST FEMALE DRAMA BOOK EVER!!!! IF YOUR INTO FACE PACE MOVING BOOKS, AND
EXCITING PLOTS SHEISTY IS THE BOOK FOR YOU. IT TAKES YOU INTO THE JOURNEY
OF 3 BESTFRIENDS BUT THE TWIST IS THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS HAPPENING IN
THEIR LIVES WILL THERE FRIENDSHIP LAST? SHEISTY IS A PAGE TURNER FROM
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“K’wan has really out done himself on this one. Street
Dreams is a must read for any fan of urban fiction.” -Shannon
Holmes, national bestselling author of Bad Girlz and B-More
Careful. "K'wan delivers another classic with Street Dreams.
. .You won't be disappointed!" -Mark Anthony,
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Hop Divas: Hip Hop Divasby Vibe magazine; As a single source on distaff purveyors of "thick, syrupy bass lines and Jeep-rocking hip hop beats," this set of Vibe magazine profiles is hard to beat. Written in streetwise and therefore YA-friendly language, it covers such stars as Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and Lil' Kim and caps the performer... |
United States Vs Hip Hop the Historical and Political Significance of Rap
Music |
 Public
Enemy #1by David L. Shabazz A jam-packed, no-holds-barred book that not only chronicles the rap genre but also analyzes it from a cultural standpoint. |
 Hip-Hop
vs MAAT by Jawanza Kunjufu, Kunjufu Values and how they affect decisions regarding abortion or adoption, marriage, gun control, and other controversial issues. |
 Droppin'
Science by William Eric Perkins, Temple University Press Perkins, a faculty fellow at the W.E.B. DuBois House at the University of Pennsylvania, has assembled a collection of essays about rap music and hip hop culture. He provides an introductory history of rap, followed by articles about the pioneering contributions of female and Latino American rappers.... |
Rap and Hip Hop: The Voice of a Generation (African Diaspora) |
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 Gunshots
in My Cook-Up : Bits and Bites from a Hip-Hop Caribbean Lifeby Selwyn Seyfu Hinds Interspersing recollections of life in the hip-hop trenches with profiles of figures like Lauryn Hill, Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, Dr. Dre, Wyclef Jean, and more, Hinds traces the heights and depths of his hip-hop love affair. Like the Guyanese rice dish "cook-up," Gunshots in My Cook-Up ingeniously pulls wide-ranging elements into an irresistibly cohesive dish. |
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Thugs
and the Women Who Love Them
Every
Thug Needs a Lady
Black
Dime
Piece
Lookin'
for Luv
Baby
Momma Drama
A
Dollar and a Dream
Caught
Up!
Wild
Thangz
Blinded
Grimey
If
Only Eye's Knew
Imagine
This
Sheisty
Booty
Call
Street Dreams
Road
Dawgz
Paper
Chasers
Dogism
The
Sex Chronicles
Gettin'
Buck Wild
Momma's
Baby, Daddy's Maybe
Naughty
or Nice
The
Other Woman
Somebody's Gotta Be on Top
Flipside of The Game
Block Party
Dumb As Me
The
Hip Hop Generation
The
Spoken Word Revolution
Hip
Hoptionary TM
Back
in the Day
The
'Hood Comes First