Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Texas

Lyrics by Malik “Malik-16” Sharif

Let Me Hear a Rhyme

#paperback #hiphop #music #business #marketing

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy

The business marketing genius at the forefront of today's entertainment marketing revolution helps corporate America get hip to today's new consumer-the tan generation.When Fortune 500 companies need to reenergize or reinvent a lagging brand, they call Steve Stoute. In addition to marrying cultural icons with blue-chip marketers, Stoute has helped identify and activate a new generation of consumers. He traces how the "tanning" phenomenonraised a generation of black, Hispanic, white, and Asian consumers who have the same "mentalcomplexion"based on shared experiencesand values,rather than the increasinglyirrelevant demographic boxes that have been used to a fault by corporate America. Stoute believes there is a language gap that must be bridged in order to engage the most powerful market force in the history of commerce.
The Tanning of America provides that very translation guide. Drawing from his company's case studies, as well as from extensive interviews with leading figures in multiple fields, Stoute presents an insider's view of how the transcendent power of popular culture is helping reinvigorate and revitalize the American dream.


*BRAND NEW* The Tanning of America

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

In this striking new novel by the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly and Monday’s Not Coming, Tiffany D. Jackson tells the story of three Brooklyn teens who plot to turn their murdered friend into a major rap star by pretending he's still alive. Brooklyn, 1998. Biggie Smalls was right: Things done changed. But that doesn’t mean that Quadir and Jarrell are cool letting their best friend Steph’s music lie forgotten under his bed after he’s murdered—not when his rhymes could turn any Bed Stuy corner into a party. With the help of Steph’s younger sister Jasmine, they come up with a plan to promote Steph’s music under a new rap name: the Architect. Soon, everyone wants a piece of him. When his demo catches the attention of a hotheaded music label rep, the trio must prove Steph’s talent from beyond the grave. As the pressure of keeping their secret grows, Quadir, Jarrell, and Jasmine are forced to confront the truth about what happened to Steph. Only, each has something to hide. And with everything riding on Steph’s fame, they need to decide what they stand for or lose all that they’ve worked so hard to hold on to—including each other.

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Georgia

A Novel

Interviewing the wives of famous hip-hop artists while planning her own wedding to a rising hip-hop star, journalist Lola Maxwell discovers sad truths about her subjects' lives that force her to make difficult personal and professional choices. By the co-author of the best-selling Keep the Faith.

Platinum

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Library discard #rickross #hiphop #rapper #icon #hustlin #memoir #hurricanes #nonfiction 

A Memoir

The highly anticipated memoir from hip-hop icon Ross chronicles his coming of age amid Miami's crack epidemic, his star-studded controversies, and his unstoppable rise to fame. Ross is an indomitable presence in the music industry, but few people know his full story.

Hurricanes

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Library discard #diddy #drdre #jayz #hiphop #moguls #musicians #entrepreneurs #africanamericans #rapmusic 

Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise

Tracing the careers of hip-hop's three most dynamic stars, this deeply reported history brilliantly examines the entrepreneurial genius of the first musician tycoons: Diddy, Dr. Dre, and Jay-Z.

Being successful musicians was simply never enough for the three kings of hip-hop. Diddy, Dr. Dre, and Jay-Z lifted themselves from childhood adversity into tycoon territory, amassing levels of fame and wealth that not only outshone all other contemporary hip-hop artists, but with a combined net worth of well over $2 billion made them the three richest American musicians, period.

Yet their fortunes have little to do with selling their own albums: between Diddy's Ciroc vodka, Dre's $3 billion sale of his Beats headphones to Apple, and Jay-Z's Tidal streaming service and other assets, these artists have transcended pop music fame to become lifestyle icons and moguls.

Hip-hop is no longer just a musical genre; it's become a way of life that encompasses fashion, film, food, drink, sports, electronics and more -- one that has opened new paths to profit and to critical and commercial acclaim. Thanks in large part to the Three Kings -- who all started their own record labels and released classic albums before moving on to become multifaceted businessmen -- hip-hop has been transformed from a genre spawned in poverty into a truly global multibillion-dollar industry.

These men are the modern embodiment of the American Dream, but their stories as great thinkers and entrepreneurs have yet to be told in full. Based on a decade of reporting, and interviews with more than 100 sources including hip-hop pioneers Russell Simmons and Fab 5 Freddy; new-breed executives like former Def Jam chief Kevin Liles and venture capitalist Troy Carter; and stars from Swizz Beatz to Shaquille O'Neal, 3 Kings tells the fascinating story of the rise and rise of the three most influential musicians in America.

3 Kings

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New York

#paperback #tiffanydjackson #youngadult #hiphop #murdermystery 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Iowa

Let Me Hear A Rhyme 

Has a mark at the bottom of the book. A small dent on the front cover. #ya #youngadultfiction #fiction #bipoc #juvenilefiction #hiphop #intense #hardcover #angiethomas

On The Come Up

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Louisiana

Get Over It

A no-holds-barred chronicle meets self-help guide from the bestselling author, rapper, artist, and chef Action Bronson

From the New York Times bestselling author, chef-turned-rapper, and host of Viceland’s F*ck, That’s Delicious and The Untitled Action Bronson Show, F*ck It, I’ll Start Tomorrow is a brutally honest chronicle about struggles with weight, food addiction, and the journey to self-acceptance. In his signature voice, Action Bronson shares all that he’s learned in the past decade to help you help yourself. This isn’t a road map to attaining a so-called perfect body. Instead, Bronson will share his journey to find confidence, keep the negative vibes at bay, stay sane, chill out, and not look in the mirror hoping to see anyone but yourself. F*ck It, I’ll Start Tomorrow is not about losing weight—it’s about being and feeling excellent regardless of your size or shape. It’s about living f*cking healthy, period.

A True Story

An entirely original and empowering memoir meets self-help guide from the bestselling author, rapper, artist, and chef Action Bronson From the New York Times bestselling author, chef-turned-rapper, and host of Viceland's F*ck, That's Delicious and The Untitled Action Bronson Show, F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow is a brutally honest memoir about struggles with weight, food addiction, and the journey to self-acceptance. In his signature voice, Action Bronson shares all that he's learned in the past decade to help you help yourself. This isn't a road map to attaining a so-called perfect body. Instead, Bronson will share his journey to find confidence, keep the negative vibes at bay, stay sane, chill out, and not look in the mirror hoping to see anyone but yourself. F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow is not about losing weight--it's about being and feeling excellent regardless of your size or shape. It's about living f*cking healthy, period.

F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow

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#paperback #tupac #biography #tupacshakur #hiphop #rap #poet #music #nonfiction

This series tells the stories of the leading figures of hip-hop, packed full of unrivalled information and full-colour photos.

Tupac

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#hardcover #justintimberlake #barnesandnobleexclusive #hiphop #music 

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

& All the Things I Can't See in Front of Me

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

"I can't help that my music shows who I am in this moment, what I'm drawn to, what I'm wondering about. I don't want to help it. What you hear in the words, what you feel in those songs--that's what I was feeling when I wrote them. I want you to see me, just like I want to see you."

-- Justin Timberlake

In his first book, Justin Timberlake has created a characteristically dynamic experience, one that combines an intimate, remarkable collection of anecdotes, reflections, and observations on his life and work with hundreds of candid images from his personal archives that range from his early years to the present day, in locations around the world, both on and off the stage.

Justin discusses many aspects of his childhood, including his very early love of music and the inspiration behind many of his hit songs and albums. He talks about his songwriting process, offering the back story to many of his hits. He muses on his collaborations with other artists and directors, sharing the details of many performances in concert, TV comedy, and film. He also reflects on who he is, examining what makes him tick, speaking candidly about fatherhood, family, close relationships, struggles, and his search to find an inner calm and strength.

Living a creative life, observing and finding inspiration in the world, taking risks and listening to an inner voice--this is Justin Timberlake.

Hindsight

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#paperback #business #management #finance #hiphop
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Illinois

A Millennials Guide To Making Bank

"Hip-hop artists and entrepreneurs are famous for working their way from the bottom to the top. Their beginnings in pimping, slinging, and performing frequently led to huge personal incomes and eye-popping album sales ... [The] figures highlight just a portion of the money made in hip-hop, but they also invite the business reader to delve deeper to ask, 'What is the secret of these artists' success? What lessons can I learn and apply in my own life?'"--Amazon.com.

Everything I Need To Know About Businewss I Learned from Hip-Hop

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Oregon

Voletta Wallace Remembers Her Son, Christopher Wallace, Aka Notorious B. I. G.

The mother of murdered rap artist Notorious B.I.G. describes his precocious childhood in Brooklyn; relationship with his widow, Faith Evans; and ongoing efforts to solve the mystery of his death, in an account that reveals her misgivings about the entertainment industry and shares previously unpublished photographs. 75,000 first printing.

Biggie

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#paperback #nonfiction #hiphop #drdre #tupac 

Pennsylvania

Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, and the Birth of West Coast Rap

"Raw, authoritative, and unflinching ... An elaborately detailed, darkly surprising, definitive history of the LA gangsta rap era."---Kirkus, starred review A monumental, revealing narrative history about the legendary group of artists at the forefront of West Coast hip-hop: Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Snoop Dogg, and Tupac Shakur. Amid rising gang violence, the crack epidemic, and police brutality, a group of unlikely voices cut through the chaos of late 1980s Los Angeles: N.W.A. Led by a drug dealer, a glammed-up producer, and a high school kid, N.W.A gave voice to disenfranchised African Americans across the country. And they quickly redefined pop culture across the world. Their names remain as popular as ever--Eazy-E, Dr. Dre, and Ice Cube. Dre soon joined forces with Suge Knight to create the combustible Death Row Records, which in turn transformed Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur into superstars. Ben Westhoff explores how this group of artists shifted the balance of hip-hop from New York to Los Angeles. He shows how N.W.A.'s shocking success lead to rivalries between members, record labels, and eventually a war between East Coast and West Coast factions. In the process, hip-hop burst into mainstream America at a time of immense social change, and became the most dominant musical movement of the last thirty years. At gangsta rap's peak, two of its biggest names--Tupac and Biggie Smalls--were murdered, leaving the surviving artists to forge peace before the genre annihilated itself. Featuring extensive investigative reporting, interviews with the principal players, and dozens of never-before-told stories, Original Gangstas is a groundbreaking addition to the history of popular music.

Original Gangstas

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Arizona

A History of the Hip-Hop Generation

Can't Stop Won't Stop is a powerful cultural and social history of the end of the American century, and a provocative look into the new world that the hip-hop generation created.

Forged in the fires of the Bronx and Kingston, Jamaica, hip-hop became the Esperanto of youth rebellion and a generation-defining movement. In a post-civil rights era defined by deindustrialization and globalization, hip-hop crystallized a multiracial, polycultural generation's worldview, and transformed American politics and culture. But that epic story has never been told with this kind of breadth, insight, and style.

Based on original interviews with DJs, b-boys, rappers, graffiti writers, activists, and gang members, with unforgettable portraits of many of hip-hop's forebears, founders, and mavericks, including DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Chuck D, and Ice Cube, Can't Stop Won't Stop chronicles the events, the ideas, the music, and the art that marked the hip-hop generation's rise from the ashes of the 60's into the new millennium.

Can't Stop Won't Stop

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A Groundwork Guide by Dalton Higgins

Hip Hop World

#paperback #50cent #rap #hiphop #Blackauthor #Blackcharacter

Softcover

A hard-hitting and inspirational novel about the redemption of a bully from international icon 50 Cent

Thirteen-year-old Butterball takes readers on a journey through the moments that made him into the playground bully he is today. Loosely inspired by 50 Cent's own adolescence and written with his teenage son in mind, Playground received wide critical praise--and is now poised to become a perennial classic.

Playground

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The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop takes a bold look at the rise of a generation that sees beyond the smoke and mirrors of corporate-manufactured rap and is building a movement that will change not only the face of pop culture, but the world.

M. K. Asante, Jr., a passionate young poet, professor, filmmaker, and activist who represents this new movement, uses hip hop as a springboard for a larger discussion about the urgent social and political issues affecting the hip-hop and post-hip-hop generations.

Through insightful anecdotes, scholarship, revolutionary rap lyrics, personal encounters, and conversations with youth across the globe as well as icons such as Chuck D and Maya Angelou, Asante illuminates a shift that can be felt in the crowded spoken-word joints in post-Katrina New Orleans, seen in the rise of youth-led organizations committed to social justice, and heard around the world chanting "It's bigger than hip hop."

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop

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#paperback #eminem #rap #hiphop #music #autobiography #collection 

The Eminem Collection

Grammy-winning Eminem (Marshall Mathers) is the first white crossover star of the hip-hop generation and it is a crossover notable for the absence of the resentment (but more of the controversy) that confronted past white performers of "black" music. In fact, black cultural bigwigs from Zadie Smith (who profiled Eminem in a Vibe cover-story lovefest) to rap progenitor and mogul Russell Simmons, not to mention superproducer to the stars Dr. Dre, a host of lesser lights, and hordes of bona fide fans have been crawling out of the woodwork to deflect the very criticism you might expect a white boy to draw when taking up a black form as his own. Meanwhile, self-consciously highbrow journals like the New Republic and the Nation have taken Eminem to task over his confused class antagonism, as portrayed in both his music and his first (it won't be his last) 100 million-grossing feature film, 8 Mile, and his truly scary misogyny and homophobia. This illustrated collection with fifty photographs includes interviews with Eminem along with selections from Toure, Andrew Sarris, Kenneth Turan, Armond White, Richard Kim, Ann Powers, Vic Everett, and many others.

White Noise

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A Short History

Tells the story of how a movement that began in the neighborhoods of the Bronx, New York, grew to become a major musical, cultural, political, and philanthropic force over the world. This book helps readers learn how slavery and the civil rights movement helped lead to the birth of hip-hop.

Hip Hop

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The stabbing and murder of esteemed music critic Dwayne Robinson in a Soho office building is dismissed by the NYPD as a gang initiation. But his old friend, bodyguard/security expert D Hunter, suspects foul play. A missing manuscript, an old cassette tape and some veiled threats suggest that larger and more sinister forces are at work. D Hunter's investigation into his mentor's murder ultimately leads into a parallel history of hip hop full of government agents, hidden power brokers and paranoid journalists.

Tiffany D. Jackson

Let Me Hear a Rhyme

Steve Stoute

*BRAND NEW* The Tanning of America

Tiffany D. Jackson

Let Me Hear a Rhyme

Aliya S. King

Platinum

Rick Ross; Neil Martinez-Belkin (As told to)

Hurricanes

Zack O'Malley Greenburg

3 Kings

Tiffany D. Jackson

Let Me Hear a Rhyme

Tiffany D. Jackson

Let Me Hear A Rhyme

Angie Thomas

On The Come Up

Nikki Carter

Get Over It

Action Bronson

F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow

Hal Marcovitz

Tupac

Justin Timberlake

Hindsight

Giles Miller

Everything I Need To Know About Businewss I Learned from Hip-Hop

Voletta Wallace; Faith Evans (Foreword by); Tremell McKenzie (As told to); Voletta Williams

Biggie

Ben Westhoff

Original Gangstas

Jeff Chang; D. J. Kool Herc (Introduction by)

Can't Stop Won't Stop

Dalton Higgins

Hip Hop World

50 50 Cent; Lizzi Akana (Illustrator)

Playground

M. K. Asante

It's Bigger Than Hip Hop

Angie Thomas, Angie Thomas

On The Come Up

Hilton Als (Editor); Darryl A. Turner (Editor)

White Noise

Rosa Waters

Hip Hop

Nelson George

The Plot Against Hip Hop: a Novel

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