Incoming Resources
- Confessions of a video vixen, Karrine Steffans
- Hip-hop is history, Questlove with Ben Greenman
- Raising hell, the reign, ruin, and redemption of Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay, Ronin Ro
- The rough guide to hip-hop, by Peter Shapiro
- Somebody scream!, rap music's rise to prominence in the aftershock of Black power, Marcus Reeves
- Born in the Bronx, a visual record of the early days of hip hop, edited by Johan Kugelberg ; photographs by Joe Conzo ; foreword by Afrika Bambaataa ; original flyer art by by Buddy Esquire ; featuring a timeline by Jeff Chang
- Losing my cool, how a father's love and 15,000 books beat hip-hop culture, Thomas Chatterton Williams
- Total chaos, the art and aesthetics of hip-hop, edited by Jeff Chang
- Where you're at, notes from the frontline of a hip-hop planet, Patrick Neate
- Can't stop, won't stop, a history of the hip-hop generation, Jeff Chang ; introduction by DJ Kool Herc
- Hip hop matters, politics, pop culture, and the struggle for the soul of a movement, S. Craig Watkins
- Original gangstas, the untold story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the birth of West Coast rap, Ben Westhoff
- The big payback, the history of the business of hip-hop, Dan Charnas
- Mo' meta blues, the world according to Questlove, by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson and Ben Greenman
- Hip-hop (and other things), a collection of questions asked, answered, illustrated, Shea Serrano ; illustrated by Arturo Torres
- Hip hop family tree, Ed Piskor, 1
- Other people's property, a shadow history of hip-hop in white America, Jason Tanz
- Know what I mean?, reflections on hip hop, by Michael Eric Dyson ; intro by Jay-Z ; outro by Nas
- Qello concerts
- The come up, an oral history of the rise of hip-hop, Jonathan Abrams