📚 Rap Music

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The spoken bar made a genre: its record industry, its critics’ books, and the line back to the toast.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject rap (music) 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
Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops and Hooligans	Bruno Mars	2011	10
Butterfly Effect	Marcus Moore	2020	7
Therapeutic Uses of Rap and Hip-Hop	Susan Hadley	2012	6
Original gangstas	Ben Westhoff	2016	6
I make my own rules	L. L. Cool J	1997	5
Hip hop America	Nelson George	1998	5
Angry Blonde	Eminem	2000	5
Holler If You Hear Me	Michael Eric Dyson	2001	5
The hip hop wars	Tricia Rose	2008	5
How to Rap	Edwards, Paul	2009	5
Decoded	Jay-Z	2010	5
Listening to Rap	Berry, Michael	2018	5
Oh Snap!	Ricky Powell	1996	4
Fight the power	Chuck D	1997	4
Have Gun Will Travel	Ronin Ro	1998	4
Hip-hop culture	Wendy Garofoli	2010	4
Decoded	Jay Z	2010	4
Deutscher Gangsta-Rap	Marc Dietrich	2012	4
How to Rap 2	Edwards, Paul	2013	4
Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop	Justin A. Williams	2015	4
Rap	Jefferson Morley	1992	3
Rebel for the Hell of It	Armond White	1997	3
Got your back	Frank Alexander	1998	3
Hip-hop	Anki Toner	1998	3
Pour une analyse textuelle du rap français	Mathias Vicherat	2001	3
Hip Hop Matters	S. Craig Watkins	2005	3
Hip-Hop Revolution	Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar	2007	3
Cool hip-hop music	Karen Latchana Kenney	2008	3
Rap music and culture	Burns, Kate	2008	3

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

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