Hip-Hop Block Party Reading List
Checkout our list of hip-hop books available for sale onsite in the Museum Store and online courtesy of Smithsonian Enterprises!
Smithsonian Anthology of Hip Hop
Book Of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop
Bun B’s Rap Coloring and Activity Book
Can't Stop Won't Stop
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (Young Adult Edition)
Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South
Chuck D Presents: This Day in Rap and Hip-Hop History
Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop
The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of Hip Hop
Creative Quest Questlove
Darryl’s Dream
Dilla Time
Fresh Fly Fabulous 50 Years of Hip Hop Style
From Crook To Cook
Go-Go Live The Musical Life and Death of Chocolate City
Hip Hop Coloring Book
Hip-Hop (And Other Things)
Hip hop at the End of the World The Photography of Brother Ernie Ernest Paniccioli
Hip Hop Speaks to Children A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat, Nikki Giovanni
The History of Gangster Rap From Schoolly D to Kendrick Lamar the Rise of a Great American Art Form Soren Baker
It Was All a Dream Biggie and the World That Made Him
Life Lessons From Hip Hop
The Motherlode 100 Women Who Made Hip-Hop
The Roots of Rap 16 Bars on the 4 Pillars of HipHop Carole Boston Weatherford
The Story Of Rap
Yo! The Early Days of Hip Hop 1982-84
