• 1984: Hip Hop
• 1984: The Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop
• 1985: Fresh: Hip Hop Don’t Stop
• 1987: Tougher Than Leather
• 1990: Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
• 1991: Nation Conscious Rap: The Hip Hop Vision
• 1991: Rap!: Portraits and Lyrics of a Generation of Black Rockers
• 1991: Bring The Noise: A Guide to Rap Music and Hip-Hop Culture
• 1992: Fresh Fly Flavor
• 1992: As Nasty As They Wanna Be
• 1992: Rap music in the 1980s
• 1993: It’s Not About a Salary
• 1993: Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy
• 1994: The New Beats
• 1994: The Rap on Gangsta Rap
• 1994: Black Noise
• 1994: Microphone Fiends: Youth Music and Youth Culture
• 1994: The Ice Opinion: Who Gives a F—k?
• 1994: The Guinness Who’s Who of Rap, Dance and Techno
• 1995: Spectacular Vernaculars
• 1995: Rap on Rap: Straight-Up Talk on Hiphop Culture
• 1996: Droppin' Science
• 1998: Hip Hop America
• 1998: Have Gun Will Travel
• 1999: The Vibe History of Hip Hop
• 1999: The Rose That Grew From Concrete
• 1999: Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists
• 2000: When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost
• 2000: Rap Music and the Poetics of Identity
• 2001: Life and Def : Sex, Drugs, Money, and God
• 2001: Holler If You Hear Me: Searching For Tupac Shakur
• 2001: The Hip Hop Years: A History of Rap
• 2002: Rap Music and Street Consciousness
• 2002: Hip Hoptionary™
• 2002: The Hip-Hop Generation
• 2002: Yes Yes Y'all
• 2003: There’s a God on the Mic
• 2003: Whatever You Say I Am: The Life and Times of Eminem
• 2003: Hip-hop Rhyming Dictionary
• 2004: That's The Joint: The Hip-hop Studies Reader
• 2004: Making Beats: The Art of Sample-based Hip-hop
• 2004: Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop
• 2004: Check It While I Wreck It
• 2005: Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation
• 2005: Rakim Told Me
• 2005: The Wu-Tang Manual
• 2005: Five Percenter Rap
• 2006: Why White Kids Love Hip Hop
• 2006: Hip Hop Matters
• 2007: Check the Technique: Liner Notes for Hip-Hop Junkies
• 2007: The Five Percenters
• 2007: Total Chaos: The Art and Aesthetics of Hip-Hop
• 2007: Know What I Mean? Reflections on Hip-Hop
• 2007: Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
• 2007: Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland, and How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing
• 2007: The Beat of Urban Art
• 2008: The Nightmare and the Dream: Nas, Jay-Z, and the History of Conflict in African-American Culture
• 2008: The Hip Hop Wars
• 2008: The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash
• 2008: It's Bigger Than Hip Hop
• 2009: Nas' Illmatic
• 2009: Hip Hop World: A Groundwork Guide
• 2009: Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic
• 2009: The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument
• 2009: How to Rap: The Art & Science of the Hip-Hop MC
• 2009: Hip Hop Underground
• 2009: The Tao of Wu
• 2009: Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop
• 2010: Decoded
• 2010: The Big Payback
• 2010: The Anthology of Rap
• 2011: One Day It'll All Make Sense
• 2011: I Am Hip-Hop
• 2011: Hip-Hop Culture in College Students' Lives
• 2011: The Tanning of America
• 2011: The Legends of Hip Hop
• 2011: Empire State of Mind
• 2011: Jay-Z: Essays on Hip Hop's Philosopher King
• 2011: Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label
• 2011: Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip-Hop
• 2011: BMF: The Rise and Fall of Big Meech and the Black Mafia Family
• 2011: Hip Hop Genius: Remixing High School Education
• 2012: Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ
• 2012: Jay-Z: The King of America
• 2012: Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
• 2013: Hip Hop Family Tree Book 1: 1970s-1981
• 2013: Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
• 2013: How to Rap 2: Advanced Flow and Delivery Techniques
• 2013: Rhymin and Stealin: Musical Borrowing in Hip-hop
• 2013: The Hip Hop Movement
• 2013: Bun B's Rap Coloring and Activity Book
• 2013: 2pac vs. Biggie
• 2013: Unbelievable
• 2014: The Dirty Version
• 2014: Check the Technique: Volume 2
• 2014: Hip-Hop within and without the Academy
• 2014: Rap and Hip Hop Culture
• 2014: Rapper's Delight: The Hip Hop Cookbook
• 2014: The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture
• 2014: The Extensive Hip Hop Rhyming Dictionary
• 2014: Unruly: The Highs and Lows of Becoming a Man