Title: All Music Guide to Hip Hop : The Definitive Guide to Rap & Hip-Hop
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Call Number: 784.5003 Al51m
Notes: More than 1200 entries on your favorite hip hop artists and songs.

Title: Droppin' Science: Critical Essays on Rap Music and Hip Hop Culture
Publisher: Temple University Press (1996)
Call Number: 784.5009 D837s
Notes: A collection of essays on the complex and sometimes controversial history, politics, and culture of rap and hip hop.

Title: Droppin' Science: Straight-Up Talk From Hip Hop's Greatest Voices
Publisher: Three Rivers Press (2002)
Call Number: 081 D837s
Notes: The origins of hip hop, scratching and break dancing.

Title: Can't Stop, Won't Stop : A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
Author: Chang, Jeff
Publisher: St. Martin's Press (2005)
Call Number: 784.5009 C362c
Notes: A history of hip hop covering the music from its Jamaican roots in the late 1960's to its birth in the Bronx and eventual explosion from underground to mainstream American culture.

Title: The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture
Author: Kitwana, Bakari
Publisher: Basic Civitas (2002)
Call Number: 305.235 K658h
Notes: Author Bakari Kitwana calls hip hop the single most significant achievement of our generation.

Title: The History of Rap Music
Author: Lammel, Cookie
Publisher: Chelsea House (2001)
Call Number: 784.5009 L838h
Notes: The origins of hip hop, scratching and break dancing.