📚 Hip-Hop

30 works · ordered by editions in print

From block party to industry: DJs, MCs, the sample and the verse, and the global rhymes that followed.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject hip-hop in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Can't stop, won't stop	Jeff Chang	2005	21
The 50th law	Robert Greene	2009	11
Bomb the Suburbs	William Upski Wimsatt	1994	7
Religion and hip hop	Monica R. Miller	2012	7
That's the Joint!	Mark Anthony Neal	2004	6
Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip-Hop	Susan Hadley	2012	6
Hip-hop turntablism, creativity and collaboration	Sophy Smith	2013	6
Hip Hop on Film	Kimberley Monteyne	2013	6
Original gangstas	Ben Westhoff	2016	6
Underground Rap As Religion	Jon Ivan Gill	2019	6
Major Labels	Kelefa Sanneh	2021	6
Hip hop America	Nelson George	1998	5
The hip hop wars	Tricia Rose	2008	5
Home with Hip Hop Feminism	Aisha S. Durham	2010	5
Hip Hop around the World [2 volumes]	Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith	2018	5
Fight the power	Chuck D	1997	4
A rhyme is a terrible thing to waste	Carlton A. Usher	2005	4
The dead emcee scrolls	Saul Williams	2006	4
The Five Percenters	Michael Muhammad Knight	2007	4
Beginning Hip-Hop Dance	E. Moncell Durden	2017	4
Read, Write, Rhyme Institute	Crystal LaVoulle	2019	4
Twisted tales	James G. Spady	1995	3
Hip-hop	Anki Toner	1998	3
The hip hop generation	Bakari Kitwana	2002	3
Hip Hop Immortals	Bonz Malone	2003	3
Afeni Shakur	Jasmine Guy	2004	3
The Wu-Tang manual	RZA (Rapper)	2005	3
Hip Hop Matters	S. Craig Watkins	2005	3
Hip-Hop Revolution	Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar	2007	3
Third coast	Roni Sarig	2007	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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