Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Questlove's "Hip-Hop Is History" could end up being one of the year's most expensive books. I'm not talking about the book itself, ...

“So, when did you fall in love with Hip Hop?” is a question that Sidney (Sanaa Lathan), a Hip Hop journalist, poses at the very beginning of the 2002 film, Brown Sugar. And, consequently, everyone ...

When a publisher suggested that Questlove write a book about the history of hip-hop, he was reticent at first. Not because of any fear of writing — the Roots drummer is an accomplished author, with a ...

De La Soul brought a necessary playfulness to hip-hop in 1989, but battles with the music industry dimmed that light. Marcus J. Moore tells their story in "High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul." ...

AMILLION just released The One, a dual album and poetry book that merges music, poetry and personal testimony into one cohesive artistic statement.

This album came at a time when Hip-Hop was undergoing its first major evolution in the hands of new school rappers who deployed sonically appealing style as opposed to the traditional hardcore hip-hop ...

Carlin is a contributor for TIME. Hip-Hop Is History is “not an encyclopedia,” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson warns in the opening pages of his fifth book. Instead, the spiritual sequel to his 2021 ...

Five recent books collect photographs, memories and ephemera from the hardcore band Agnostic Front, the mysterious dance artist Aphex Twin, the rap collective Odd Future and more. By Jon Caramanica ...

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Questlove's "Hip-Hop Is History" could end up being one of the year's most expensive books. I'm not talking about the book itself, which is a standard hardcover $30, but about the music it'll make you ...