What books on hip hop have you read ? ?

[Razor Reader]

i can't post all the books I have but if you're into hip hop history and how classic albums were made you should peep:

Rakim Told me
Check the Technique
check the technique vol 2

J Zone has a great autobiography that's hilarious. The Def Jam biography is very informative. Touches on a fight between Rakim and LL almost happening and Jam Master Jay about to get into with Slick Rick. The Public Enemy bios are great. Flavor Flav's autobiography is dope and a few books Chuck has written. Books about the south and west's role in hip hop are dope too. That Greg Kading book is a bunch of bs. I have shyt and you can file it under fiction along with Prodigy's autobiography. 2 interesting autobiographies were written by Biggie and Eminem mothers. Voletta Wallace still has a resentment toward's Puffy and Suge getting her son and Afeni's son into beef because they couldn't handle their business outside of them.

Now tell me, how is the book Rakim told me different from check the technique? I thought Rakim told me was just the old version of check the technique ?

 

[Asicz]

Nas fans should read

It's No Secret: From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal--a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All
Book by Carmen Bryan

 

[Razor Reader]

Violent J "behind the paint" is the best rap book ever

Link?

 

[Asicz]

Yeah I like Check The Technique one

 

[Razor Reader]

Nas fans should read

It's No Secret: From Nas to Jay-Z, from Seduction to Scandal--a Hip-Hop Helen of Troy Tells All
Book by Carmen Bryan

It sounds rather Chatty Patty though like some gossipy tell all. I want some real history.

 

[Asicz]

When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminest Breaks It Down Joan Morgan

 

[Asicz]

It sounds rather Chatty Patty though like some gossipy tell all. I want some real history.

It is real history from the source. Dont judge a book...

 

[Razor Reader]

I got this book

Great read

Lol @ That part with Rbx and Suge Knight about to fight over a bucket of chicken

 

[Asicz]

Reccomend
Confessions of a Video Vixen
Book by Karrine Steffans

 

[Razor Reader]

It is real history from the source. Dont judge a book...

Imma check it out.

 

[mbewane]

Didn't even know there were so many HH books tbh

Only ones I've read are the Rza books and The Dirty Version...I'm a Wu stan

Might have to order that Prodigy book

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

Now tell me, how is the book Rakim told me different from check the technique? I thought Rakim told me was just the old version of check the technique ?

Check the Technique was indeed an updated Version of Rakim told me, but they didn't include every album on the updated edition. The 3rd volume are all new albums.

 

[Asicz]

Why do so many of yall buy these books?
Have yall heard of this thing called a library?
They let you take books for free temporarily and read them. They also let you download books to your phone online.

 

[Asicz]

Jay Z Decoded was good.

 

[Maximus Rex]

Jay Z - Decoded the only one