• The Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop by David Toop, 1984.

• Bring the Noise: A Guide to Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture by Havelock Nelson and Michael A. Gonzales, 1991.
  

• It’s Not About A Salary: Rap, Race and Resistance in Los Angeles by Brian Cross, 1993. 

• Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America by Tricia Rose, 1994. 

• Spectacular Vernaculars: Hip-Hop and the Politics of Postmodernism by Russell A. Potter

• Hip Hop America by Nelson George, 1998.

• Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists by Sacha Jenkins, Elliott Wilson, Jeff Mao, Gabe Alvarez, Brent Rollins, 1999.

• The Rose That Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur, 1999.

• Holler If You Hear Me: Searching for Tupac Shakur by Michael Eric Dyson, 2001. ︎

• Rap Music and Street Consciousness by Cheryl L. Keyes, 2002.  ︎

• Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop by Imani Perry, 2004. ︎

• That’s The Joint! The Hip-Hop Studies Reader, ed. Mark Anthony Neal and Murray Foreman, 2004.  ︎

• And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years ed. by Raquel Cepeda, 2004.

• Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang, 2005. ︎

• Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies by Brian Coleman, 2007. ︎

• Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop ed. by Jeff Chang, with Greg Tate, Rennie Harris, Mark Anthony Neal, Brian Cross, Vijay Prashad, Joan Morgan and more. ︎

• Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar, 2007.

• The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop—and Why It Matters by Tricia Rose, 2008.

• The Tao of Wu by RZA, 2009.

• Hip Hop's Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement by Reiland Rabaka, 2011.

• My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy by Albert Johnson, Laura Checkoway, 2011.

• Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ by Mark Katz, 2012.

• The Hip Hop Movement: From R&B and the Civil Rights Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Generation by Reiland Rabaka, 2013.

• Houston Rap Tapes: An Oral History of Bayou City Hip-Hop by Lance Scott Walker, 2013.

• Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove by Ahmir Questlove Thompson, 2013. 

• J Dilla's Donuts (33⅓ #93) by Jordan Ferguson, 2014. ︎

• The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, ed. Quraysh Ali Lansana, Nate Marshall, Kevin Coval, 2015.

• Hip Hop Family Tree (Graphic novel series) by Ed Piskor, August 2015 - July 2016.
  

• Original Gangstas: The Untold Story of Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, and the Birth of West Coast Rap by Ben Westhoff, 2016.

• Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States by Su'ad Abdul Khabeer, 2016.

• Parental Discretion Is Advised: The Rise of N.W.A and the Dawn of Gangsta Rap by Gerrick Kennedy, December 2017.

• She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Joan Morgan, 2018.

• Best Damn Hip Hop Writing: The Book of Dart by Dart Adams, ed. Amir Ali Said, 2019.

• God Save the Queens: The Essential History of Women in Hip-Hop by Kathy Iandoli, 2019.

• Goin’ Off: The Story of the Juice Crew & Cold Chillin’ Records by Ben Merlis, 2019.

• Women Rapping Revolution Hip Hop and Community Building in Detroit by Kellie D. Hay and Rebekah Farrugia, 2020.

• The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America by Marcus J. Moore, 2020.

• Emerald Street: A History of Hip Hop in Seattle by Daudi Abe, 2020. 

• Fullamusu Bangura Considers Lil' Kim's "Hard Core", 2020.

• Shiavon Chatman Considers The Notorious B.I.G.'s "Life After Death", 2020.

• Taylor Crumpton Considers Big Tuck's "Purple Hulk", 2020.

• Andreas Hale Considers Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp A Butterfly", 2020.

• John Morrison Considers The Roots' "Do You Want More?!!!??!", 2020.
  

• The Motherlode: 100+ Women Who Made Hip-Hop by Clover Hope,  2021.
• Excerpt: “The Meaning of Lil’ Kim” available on Pitchfork.

• Changes: An Oral History of Tupac Shakur by Sheldon Pearce, 2021.
• Excerpt: “What Would Tupac Be Doing Today?” available on Pitchfork.

• Promise That You Will Sing About Me: The Power and Poetry of Kendrick Lamar, by Miles Marshall Lewis, 2021.

• Who Got the Camera?: A History of Rap and Reality by Eric Harvey, 2021.

FILMS & SERIES

• Wild Style, dir. Charlie Ahearn, 1982. 1h 22m.

• Style Wars, dir. Tony Silver, 1983. 1h 55m. ︎

• Breakin’ n Enterin’, dir. Topper Carew, 1983. 1h 24m.

• Big Fun In The Big Town, dir. Bram Van Splunteren, 1986. 40m.

• Bad Meaning Good, prod. Tim Westwood, BBC, 1987.

• Wreckin Shop: Live From Brooklyn, PBS, dir. Diane Martel, 1992.
  

• Rhyme & Reason, dir. Peter Spirer, 1997. 1h 34m. ︎

• Freestyle: Art of Rhyme, dir. Kevin Fitzgerald, 2000. 1h 30m.

• Scratch, dir. Doug Pray, 2001. 1h 32m.

• Biggie & Tupac, dir. Nick Bloomfield, 2002. 1h 48m.

• And You Don’t Stop: 30 Years of Hip-Hop, dir. Richard Lowe and Dana Heinz Perry, 2004. Five-part VH1 series.

• Wot Do U Call It, dir. Adam Smith, 2003. 10m.

• Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, dir. Michel Gondry, 2005. 1h 51m. ︎

• Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, dir. Bryon Hurt, 2006. 1h 1m. ︎

• The Carter, dir. Adam Bhala Lough, 2009, 1h 15m.

• My Mic Sounds Nice: A Truth About Women and Hip-Hop, dir. Ava DuVernay, 2010. 1h. ︎

• The Weird World of Blowfly, dir. Jonathan Furmanski, 2010. 1h 29m.

• Rubble Kings, dir. Shan Nicholson, 2010. 1h 11m.

• Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, dir. Michael Rapaport, 2011. 1h 35m.

• Uprising: Hip-Hop & The L.A. Riots, dir. Mark Ford, 2012. 1h 6m.

• Time is Illmatic, dir. One9, 2014. 1h 14m.  ︎

• ATL: The Untold Story of Atlanta’s Rise in the Rap Game, dir. Brad Bernstein and Rick Ciwoski, 2014. 1h 30m.

• The Police vs. Grime: A Noisey Film, 2014. 20m.

• Skepta: Top Boy: A Noisey Film, 2015. 31m.

• Fresh Dressed, dir. Sacha Jenkins, 2015. 1h 30m. 

• Stretch & Bobbito: Radio That Changed Lives, dir. Bobbito Garcia, 2015. 1h 38m.

• 808 - The Heart of the Beat That Changed Music, dir. Alexander Dunn, 2015. 1h 47m.

• The Get Down, dir. Baz Luhrmann, 2016. 1 season.

• All Eyez on Me, dir. Benny Boom, 2017. 2h 20m.

• Death Row Chronicles, 2018. BET 6 episode series.

• Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men, dir. Sacha Jenkins, 2019. 1 season.

• Wu-Tang: An American Saga by RZA and Alex Tse, Hulu. 2019 - Present.

• “Ice Cold: The Untold Story of Hip Hop Jewelry” prod. by Migos, YouTube Originals, July 2021.

• The History of Hip-Hop: A Series by NPR, 1990s-early 2000s.
• DJ Kool Herc and the Birth of the Breakbeat, 20 minutes.
• Rapper Melle Mel: Delivering 'The Message', 5 minutes.
• DJ and Hip-Hop Pioneer Grandmaster Flash, 19 minutes.
• Hip-Hop Entrepreneur Russell Simmons, 15 minutes.
• Rapper Darryl McDaniels of Run-DMC, 15 minutes.
• LL Cool J: Still Knockin' Us Out, 8 minutes.
• Public Enemy Pioneer Chuck D, 8 minutes.
• Hip-Hop Renaissance Man: Ice Cube, 20 minutes.
• 'Original Gangster': Rapper and Actor Ice-T, 20 minutes.
• The Hippies of Hip-Hop: De La Soul, 15 minutes.
• Fresh Prince and Beyond: Will Smith, 12 minutes.
• Queen Latifah: The Fresh Air Interview, 17 minutes.
• Ahmir Thompson, AKA Questlove, 17 minutes.
• Wu-Tang Clan's The RZA, 15 minutes.

• "Rappers Delight" (on the Sugarhill Gang & Sylvia Robinson), NPR 100, December 2000. 8 minutes.

• “How Hip-hop Works” by Stuff You Should Know, July 2013, 57 minutes.

• “Lights Out: Was the 1977 NYC-wide blackout a catalyst for the hip-hop movement? by 99% Invisible, October 2014. 19 mins.

• “Buckaroos of the Bugaloo” by Barry Michael Cooper, Village Voice, January 1981. ︎
• First rap journalism in Voice history!

• “Hiphop Nation: It's Like This Y'all” by Greg Tate, Village Voice, January 1988.

• “Hiphop Nation: What It Is” by John Leland & Steve Stein, Village Voice, January 1988.

• "Dreaming America: Hip Hop Culture", by dream hampton, Spin Magazine, November 1993. ︎

• “Interview: Afrika Bambaataa” by Frank Boughton, DJHistory, conducted 1998. ︎

• “OutKast: The Road to Stankonia” by Craig Seymour, February 2002.

• “Remembering TLC’s Left Eye (1971 – 2002)” by Craig Seymour, April 2002.

• On Eminem: “White Freedom” by Greg Tate, Village Voice, November 2004.

• “The Slowed-Down Tempos of Screw and its Influence on Contemporary Bands” by Jace Clayton, Frieze, November 2010. ︎

• “The People Inside My Head, Too: Madness, Black Womanhood, and the Radical Performance of Lauryn Hill,” by La Marr Jurelle Bruce, African American Review Vol. 45, No. 3, Fall 2012.

• “Drizzy Sings the Blues” by Jason King, NPR, September 2013. ︎

• “Wu-Tang, Atomically” by Amos Barshad, Grantland, March 2014.︎

• “Larry Smith: Unsung Legend of Hip-Hop Gets His Props” by Chris Williams, Ebony, November 2014.

• “Kendrick Lamar’s ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ Is Critic-Proof, And That’s A Good Thing” by Rawiya Kameir, The FADER, March 2015.

• “Notes on the Hip-Hop Messiah” by Jay Caspian Kang, NYTimes Magazine, March 2015. ︎

• “What Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Kanye West Say About the Black Experience in America” by Judnick Mayard, Complex, March 2015. ︎

• “Who Got the Camera? N.W.A's Embrace of "Reality," 1988-1992” by Eric Harvey, Pitchfork, August 2015.

• “Follow the Leaders: The Story of How Hip-Hop Grows Old” by Thomas Golianopoulos, Grantland, July 2015. ︎

• “Da Art of Storytellin' (A Prequel)” by Kiese Laymon, Oxford American, November 2015.

• “The Roller Rink Origins of NWA” by Sam Sweet, NYTimes, August 2015.

• ”Nightclubbing: The Pac Jam, Home of Miami Bass” by Jesse Serwer, RBMA, October 2015.

• “The Boycott Before: Rap and Resentment at the 1989 Grammys” by Joe Coscarelli, NYTimes, February 2016.

• “Inside Atlanta's Booming Hip-Hop Dance Scene” by David Turner, MTV, March 2016.

• “Surviving The Last Days Of San Francisco Rap” by Ben Dandrige-Lemco, The FADER, June 2016.

• “Danny Brown's 'Atrocity Exhibition' and the Freedom to Be Depressed” by Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, October 2016. ︎

• “'Winter in America' Co-Producer Brian Jackson Reflects On Gil Scott-Heron, “The Bottle” & Creating A Classic" by Chris Williams, Okayplayer, 2017.

• “Heartthrob Never: On The Beauty Of Biggie Smalls” by Hanif Abdurraqib, MTV, March 2017. ︎

• “Nightclubbing: Uncle Jamm's Army” by RBMA, October 2017.

• “A Toast to Grandmaster Flash: Hip-hop Pioneer, Turntable Wizard and Superhero DJ” by Stereo Williams, Daily Beast, January 2018.

• “Slick Leo, the Godfather of DJ Culture in New Orleans” by Amos Barshad, RBMA, April 2018.

• “Have White People Stolen Rap Concerts, Too?” by Taylor Crumpton, PAPER, July 2018.

• "Notes on Trap" by Jesse McCarthy, n+1, Issue 32: Bad Faith, Fall 2018. ︎
  

• “The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, a DIY Hip-Hop Incubator” by Philip Mlynar, RBMA, November 2018.

• “Touchstones: An Appreciation of Missy Elliott's 1997 Album, “Supa Dupa Fly”” by Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, November 2018. ︎

• “Is Rap Finally Ready to Embrace Its Women?” by Briana Younger, The New Yorker, December 2018. ︎

• “Sylvia Robinson’s Legacy as ‘The Mother of Hip Hop’” by Stephanie Phillips, She Shreds, February 2019.

• “The Making of Run-DMC's Classic Debut, According to Darryl “DMC” McDaniels” by Chris Williams, Okayplayer, February 2019.

• “Is Hip Hop Ready To Let Black Women Tell Its Stories?” by Charne Graham, NYLON, June 2019.

• “It's Like That: The Makings of a Hip-Hop Writer” by Michael A. Gonzales, Longreads, June 2019.

• “The Afterlife of Aretha Franklin's “Rock Steady:” A Case Study in DJ Scholarship” by DJ Lynnée Denise, Journal of Black Studies and Research, July 2019.

• “'How Rapper Stormzy Is Championing Black British Culture” by Reni Eddo-Lodge, TIME, October 2019. 

• “The Rise and Fall of Hip-Hop's First Godmother: Sugar Hill Records' Sylvia Robinson” by Dan Charnas, Billboard, October 2019.

• "We’re Losing Another Rap Generation Right Before Our Eyes" by Craig Jenkins, Vulture, December 2019.

• “Was This the Decade Hip-Hop Finally Moved Past Its Homophobia?” by Tirhakah Love, LEVEL, December 2019.

• “The Real Story Behind the Party That Birthed Hip-Hop” by DJ Kool Herc & Cindy Campbell, Rock the Bells, 2020.

• “What Happened the Day After DJ Kool Herc's First Hip-Hop Party?” by Alec Banks, Rock the Bells, 2020.

• “Heard But Not Seen: Hip-hop and Black music as the soundtrack to White spaces.” by Tre Johnson, Slate, January 2020. ︎

• “Why It’s a Big Deal for New York’s Brightest Young Rappers to Play a Hometown Show” by Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, February 2020.

• “Dallas Got Next: Why the Next Hip-Hop Mecca Never Got Its Due” by Taylor Crumpton, LEVEL, February 2020.

• “30 Years Ago, 'Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em' Changed Everything” by LEVEL Editors, LEVEL, February 2020.

• “How Megan Thee Stallion Turned ‘Hot’ Into a State of Mind” by Jenna Wortham, NYTimes, March 2020.

• “Kendrick Lamar's 'Alright' and Protest Music Right Now” by Craig Jenkins, Vulture, June 2020.

• “When Will There Be a LGBTQ Renaissance in Rap?” by J’na Jefferson, The Root, June 2020.

• “After Pop Smoke's death, can UK drill producers maintain their US success?” by Amos Barshad, The Guardian, July 2020.

• “The Women Who Still Don't Matter to Hip-Hop” by Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, July 2020.

• "Home of Hip-Hop: A History Walk with DJ Kool Herc & Cindy Campbell” by City Parks Foundation, August 2020.

• “Body Capital: How Twerking Shapes The Sound Of Southern Rap” by Zandria F. Robinson, NPR Music, August 2020.

• “What Do Black Women Need From Hip-Hop in 2020?” by David Dennis, Jr., LEVEL, September 2020.

• “The Co-Opting of Rap Criticism Is About More Than Just Music” by Kristin Corry, VICE, October 2020. 

• “Inside the NYPD's War Against Drill Rap” By Andre Gee, VICE, October 2020.

• “Busta Rhymes on ELE2, Kendrick Lamar, and His Rap Legacy” by Craig Jenkins, Vulture, October 2020.

• “Hip-Hop Meets Tech: How The Chopstars Collective Keeps Houston's Chopped and Screwed Movement Alive” by Njera Perkins, Afro Tech, December 2020.

• The 1996 Rap Yearbook, a series by The Ringer. February 2021 - Present.
• “The Triumph and Tragedy of Tupac’s ‘All Eyez on Me’” by Justin Sayles.
• “In ‘The Score,’ the Fugees Made Refugees the Heroes of an Epic Tale” by Musa Okwonga.
• “How Busta Rhymes Harnessed the Dungeon Dragon on His Classic Debut” by Max Bell.
  
• “The Improbable Empire: Master P’s ‘Ice Cream Man’ and the Birth of a Southern Rap Dynasty” by Paul Thompson.
  
• “The Eternal Hymn of ‘Tha Crossroads’” by Justin Sayles.
  
• “Dr. Octagon and the Surgical Perverseness of Kool Keith” by Rob Harvilla.
  
• “Go Sell It on the Mountain: Jay-Z and the Myth of ‘Reasonable Doubt’” by Lex Pryor.

• “Rap & Death: Anywhere, Anytime, Anyplace, Bullets Are Flying at Rappers” by Yoh Philips, Passion of the Weiss, April 2021.

• “Hip Hop: No Country for Middle Aged MCs” by Nelson George, The Nelson George Mixtape, March 2021. 

• “DMX, Shock G, & the Plight of the Middle-Aged Rapper” by Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, April 2021.

• “The Irreplaceable Black Rob, Bad Boy’s First Street Story” by Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, April 2021. 

• “Isaiah Rashad, After the Fire” by Jeff Weiss, The FADER, May 2021.

• “Bizzy Banks Is at the Forefront of Brooklyn Drill’s Next Wave” by Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, May 2021.

• “The Female Rappers Taking Up New Space in the Dominican Republic” by Marjua Estevez, Condé Nast Traveler, May 2021.

• “DMX’s Final Interview Should Be a Wake-Up Call” by Nitish Pahwa, Slate, May 2021.

• “How Gucci Mane Rebuilt His Life — And Started Building the 'Walmart' of Record Labels” by Neena Rouhani, Billboard, May 2021.

• "How Drill Music Took Over Chicago—and Was Almost Forced Out" by Andre Gee, Complex, June 2021.

• “Little Simz has nothing left to prove “ by Gemma Samways, Loud and Quiet, June 2021.

• “Untangling MF DOOM’s Lifelong Struggle With the U.S. Immigration System” by Noah Yoo, Pitchfork, June 2021.

• “The History of City Girls' 'Twerkulator' and Twerking” by Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan, Vulture, July 2021.

• “Stop Blaming Rappers for a Problem America Created” by Andre Gee, Complex, July 2021.
  

• “No More Heroes are building the future of Chicago rap” by Jack Riedy, Chicago Reader, July 2021.

• “How 'The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill' Taught Me To Love Blackness” by Namwali Serpell, NPR Music, July 2021.
  

• “Looking for the Message in Nas’s ‘It Was Written’” by Paul Thompson, The Ringer, July 2021.

• “Mic Shane helped boost Chicago hip-hop onto a global stage” by Leor Galil, Chicago Reader, July 2021. 

• “The Tao of Snoop Dogg” by David Gelles, The New York Times, July 2021.

• “The Girls and Gays Are Dominating Hip Hop, But Where Is the Respect?” by Ashley Reese, Jezebel, July 2021.

• “Vinyl Saved My Life: A Tribute to Biz Markie” by Pharoahe Monch, SPIN, July 2021.

• “The Last Underground Rapper” on Ka,  by Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, August 2021.

• “Why Aren’t Women Getting More Guest Features on Rap Albums?” by Jessica McKinney, Complex, August 2021.

• “The 20 Essential Texas Rap Tracks – Texas Monthly” by Kiana Fitzgerald, Paula Mejia, Sama’an Ashrawi & More, Texas Monthly, August 2021.

• “How Chucky Thompson helped create the sound of '90s hip-hop” by Julian Kimble, The LA Times, August 2021.

• “How UGK’s ‘Ridin’ Dirty’ Went From Afterthought to a Crown Jewel of Southern Rap” by Max Bell, The Ringer, August 2021.

• “DaBaby & Hip-Hop’s Love-Hate Relationship With Homoeroticism” by Tirhakah Love, The Daily Beast, August 2021.

• “How Noname Is Reimagining Fame (and Everything Else)” by Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone, August 2021.

• “How Kari Faux Is Changing the Rap Game” by Tirhakah Love, The Daily Beast, September 2021.

• “The message: why should hip-hop have to teach us anything?” by Kelefa Sanneh, The Guardian (Excerpted from Major Labels), October 2021.