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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Advisory Board
Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Introduction
Part I - 1978-1984—The Old School
Afrika Bambaataa
Zulu Nation Throwdown
Planet Rock
Kurtis Blow
Rappin Blow (Part 2)
The Breaks
If I Ruled the World
Brother D with Collective Effort
How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise?
Eddie Cheba
Live at the Armory 1979 (1)
Cold Crush Brothers
Live at Harlem World 1981
Live at the Dixie 1982
Weekend
Fresh Wild Fly and Bold
DJ Hollywood
Live at the Armory 1979 (2)
Funky Four + 1
from Rappin and Rockin the House
from That’s the Joint
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
from Live at the Audubon Ballroom (12/23/78)
from Superrappin
The Message
White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)
Lady B
To the Beat, Y’all
Sequence
from Funk You Up
from And You Know That
from Simon Says
Spoonie Gee
from Spoonin Rap
Love Rap
Sugarhill Gang
from Rapper’s Delight
Treacherous Three
The New Rap Language
from Kool Moe Dee’s Battle with Busy Bee (1981)
Tanya (“Sweet Tee”) Winley
Rhymin and Rappin
Vicious Rap
Part II - 1985-1992—The Golden Age
Beastie Boys
Paul Revere
Sure Shot
Shadrach
Big Daddy Kane
Raw
Wrath of Kane
Ain’t No Half Steppin’
Boogie Down Productions
Poetry
Criminal Minded
My Philosophy
South Bronx
Blackman in Effect
De La Soul
My Brother’s a Basehead
Millie Pulled a Pistol on Santa
Stakes Is High
Eric B. & Rakim
Eric B. Is President
Paid in Full
My Melody
I Ain’t No Joke
Microphone Fiend
Lyrics of Fury
Gang Starr
Step in the Arena
Just to Get a Rep
Words I Manifest (Remix)
Ice-T
6 ’N the Mornin’
Colors
Kool G Rap
Road to the Riches
Streets of New York
Rikers Island
Kool Moe Dee
Go See the Doctor
How Ya Like Me Now
I Go to Work
LL Cool J
Rock the Bells
I Can’t Live Without My Radio
I’m Bad
I Need Love
I’m That Type of Guy
Mama Said Knock You Out
MC Lyte
10% Dis
I Cram to Understand U
Cappuccino
NWA
Dopeman (Remix)
Fuck tha Police
Gangsta Gangsta
Straight Outta Compton
Public Enemy
Miuzi Weighs a Ton
Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos
Rebel Without a Pause
Fight the Power
Welcome to the Terrordome
Queen Latifah
Evil That Men Do
Elements I’m Among
Run-DMC
Sucker MC’s
It’s Like That
Peter Piper
Proud to Be Black
Salt-N-Pepa
Tramp
Let’s Talk About Sex
Schoolly D
P.S.K. What Does It Mean
Saturday Night
Roxanne Shanté
Roxanne’s Revenge
Independent Woman
Slick Rick
La Di Da Di
Children’s Story
I Shouldn’t Have Done It
Too $hort
Cusswords
The Ghetto
A Tribe Called Quest
I Left My Wallet in El Segundo
Check the Rhime
Award Tour
Ultramagnetic MCs
Ego Trippin
Critical Beatdown
X-Clan
Grand Verbalizer
A.D.A.M.
Part III - 1993-1999—Rap Goes Mainstream
Arrested Development
Tennessee
Bahamadia
Spontaneity
Big L
Ebonics (Criminal Slang)
Big Punisher
from Capital Punishment
’95 Freestyle (feat. Fat Joe)
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
Tha Crossroads
Busta Rhymes
from Scenario (A Tribe Called Quest)
Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See
Canibus
Poet Laureate Infinity 3
Chino XL
What Am I?
Wordsmith
Common
I Used to Love H.E.R.
The 6th Sense
The Light
A Song for Assata (feat. Cee-Lo)
Digable Planets
Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)
DMX
Damien
Who We Be
E-40
Sprinkle Me (feat. Suga T)
Foxy Brown
My Life
BK Anthem
Freestyle Fellowship
Can You Find the Level of Difficulty in This?
The Guidelines (Aceyalone)
The Fugees
Vocab
Fu-Gee-La
Ready or Not
Goodie Mob
Cell Therapy
Hieroglyphics
Cab Fare (Souls of Mischief)
Classic
Virus (Del)
Lauryn Hill
Doo Wop (That Thing)
Lost Ones
Final Hour
Ice Cube
The Nigga Ya Love to Hate
It’s a Man’s World (feat. Yo-Yo)
A Bird in the Hand
It Was a Good Day
Jay-Z
Dead Presidents II
Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem)
Renegade (feat. Eminem)
December 4th
99 Problems
My President Is Black (D.C. Mix)
KRS-One
Sound of Da Police
MCs Act Like They Don’t Know
The Lady of Rage
Afro Puffs
Unfucwitable
Lil’ Kim
Queen Bitch (feat. The Notorious B.I.G.)
Mia X
Hoodlum Poetry
Mobb Deep
Shook Ones, Pt. II
Quiet Storm (Remix) (feat. Lil’ Kim)
Nas
from Live at the BBQ (Main Source)
N.Y. State of Mind
Life’s a Bitch (feat. AZ)
from The World Is Yours
Ether
Black President
The Notorious B.I.G.
’95 Freestyle (feat. Scoob, 2Pac, Shyheim, and Daddy Kane)
One More Chance (Remix)
Ten Crack Commandments
I Got a Story to Tell
Outkast
Ras Kass
Ordo Ab Chao (Order Out of Chaos)
Interview with a Vampire
The Roots
The Next Movement
from Act Too … The Love of My Life (feat. Common)
You Got Me (feat. Eve and Erykah Badu)
Web
Scarface
Mind Playing Tricks on Me (Geto Boys)
I Seen a Man Die
Snoop Dogg
Nuthin but a G Thang (feat. Dr. Dre)
Gin and Juice
from Freestyle Conversation
2Pac
Brenda’s Got a Baby
Dear Mama
So Many Tears
from All Eyez on Me
Changes
How Long Will They Mourn Me (feat. Nate Dogg, Big Syke, Rated R, and Macadoshis)
Twista
Emotions
UGK
Murder
Dirty Money
The Wu-Tang Clan
Protect Ya Neck
C.R.E.A.M.
from Bring the Pain (Method Man)
Duel of the Iron Mic (GZA)
Incarcerated Scarfaces (Raekwon)
Brooklyn Zoo (Ol’ Dirty Bastard)
Daytona 500 (Ghostface Killah)
The M.G.M. (Ghostface Killah and Raekwon)
Triumph
Shakey Dog (Ghostface Killah)
Part IV - 2000-2010—New Millennium Rap
Aesop Rock
9–5ers Anthem
No Regrets
Atmosphere
Fuck You Lucy
Sunshine
Beanie Sigel
The Truth
Blackalicious
Alphabet Aerobics
My Pen & Pad
Brother Ali
Room with a View
Picket Fence
Cam’ron
Get It in Ohio
Cee-Lo
Childz Play (feat. Ludacris)
The Clipse
Grindin
Zen (feat. Roscoe P. Coldchain and Ab Liva)
dead prez
Police State
Hip-Hop
Devin the Dude
Briarpatch
DOOM
Benzi Box (feat. Cee-Lo)
Saliva (as Viktor Vaughn)
Figaro
Eminem
Just Don’t Give a Fuck
The Way I Am
Stan
Lose Yourself
Mockingbird
When I’m Gone
Eve
Love Is Blind
Eyedea & Abilities
Bottle Dreams (as Oliver Hart)
Now
Lupe Fiasco
Dumb It Down
Hip-Hop Saved My Life
50 Cent
50 Shot Ya
Ghetto Qua’ran
Jean Grae
Lovesong
Hater’s Anthem
Don’t Rush Me
Immortal Technique
Dance with the Devil
Industrial Revolution
K’Naan
What’s Hardcore?
My Old Home
Talib Kweli
RE:DEFinition (Black Star w/Mos Def)
For Women
Give ’Em Hell
Lil Wayne
from Tha Block Is Hot
I Feel Like Dying
Live from the 504
Dr. Carter
Little Brother
All for You
Ludacris
Southern Hospitality
Hip Hop Quotables
M.I.A.
Sunshowers
Paper Planes
Pharoahe Monch
Releasing Hypnotical Gases (Organized Konfusion w/Prince Poetry)
Simon Says
Desire
Mos Def
Hip Hop
Mathematics
Dollar Day for New Orleans (Katrina Klap)
Auditorium (feat. Slick Rick)
T.I.
T.I. vs. T.I.P.
U Don’t Know Me
Kanye West
All Falls Down
Jesus Walks
Homecoming
Can’t Tell Me Nothing
Young Jeezy
from Put On
My President (feat. Nas)
Lyrics for Further Study
David Banner/Cadillac on 22’s [2003]
Binary Star/Reality Check [2000]
Biz Markie/Vapors [1988]
Black Sheep/The Choice Is Yours (Revisited) [1991]
Camp Lo/Luchini [1997]
Crooked I/Grindin (Freestyle) [2003]
Das EFX/They Want EFX [1992]
Deep Dickollective/For Colored Boys [2007]
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince/Summertime [1991]
Drake/Say What’s Real [2009]
Edan/Fumbling over Words That Rhyme [2005]
Missy Elliott/The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) [1997]
EPMD/Strictly Business [1988]
The Fatback Band (feat. King Tim III)/King Tim III (Personality Jock) [1979]
The Game (feat. 50 Cent)/Hate It or Love It [2005]
Jadakiss/Why [2004]
Jay Electronica/Exhibit C [2009]
Jedi Mind Tricks (feat. R.A. the Rugged Man)/Uncommon Valor: A Vietnam Story [2006]
Jeru the Damaja/Come Clean [1993]
Joell Ortiz/Letter to Obama [2008]
Juvenile/Ha [1998]
Kardinal Offishall/BaKardi Slang [2000]
Medusa/from This Pussy’s a Gangsta [2007]
Naughty By Nature/Everything’s Gonna Be Alright (Ghetto Bastard) [1991]
Nelly/Country Grammar (Hot Shit) [2000]
Nice & Smooth/Sometimes I Rhyme Slow [1991]
O.C./Time’s Up [1994]
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth/They Reminisce over You (T.R.O.Y.) [1992]
The Pharcyde/Passin Me By [1993]
Poor Righteous Teachers/Rock Dis Funky Joint [1990]
Sage Francis/Makeshift Patriot [2003]
Smoothe da Hustler & Trigga da Gambler/Broken Language [1995]
Special Ed/I Got It Made [1989]
Stetsasonic/Talkin All That Jazz [1998]
Afterword by Chuck D
Afterword by Common
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index of Songs, Albums, Movies, and Books
Index of Artists, Authors, and Labels
Credits
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