For more than half a century, the Village Voice served as America's most influential alternative newspaper--a fearless chronicler of politics, culture, and everyday life in New York...

Birth of a Culture tells the chronological and comprehensive origin of hip hop. Over fifty years ago Joseph Saddler, a cool, nerdy, self-proclaimed kid scientist from...

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature FinalistTwo starred reviews!A Golden Kite Award Honor Book for Young Adult FictionAn “artful and introspective” (BCCB, starred review) novel in verse...

Visionary rapper of the groundbreaking "The Humpty Dance," producer of Tupac Shakur's iconic "I Get Around," and driving force of legendary hip-hop group Digital Underground,...

The award-winning, legendary producer, global hype-master, and King of Crunk, Lil Jon, on the story of his life and his transformation into the high-volume showman...

The little-known heroes behind Motown’s greatest hits are finally heard in this moving memoir filled with the rich historical atmosphere and emotional resonance of Hidden Figures,...

Hit Men meets Dilla Time in this story of how three men built a business empire—and how three entrepreneurs reimagined what a record label could become.Today, Roc-A-Fella Records...