15 Rappers’ Books You Can Buy For Christmas - Page 7

The holiday season is upon us, and some people have inevitably waited until the last minute to purchase gifts. Luckily, there’s an easy cheat for the readers in your life.

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Presumably if you frequent this site, you’re a fan of Hip-Hop. Kill two birds with one stone (assuming your local bookstore is open), and make a last minute gift out of one of these 15 rappers’ books you can buy for Christmas.

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A few feathers got ruffled when Mobb Deep’s Prodigy linked up with Laura Checkoway for his bio My Infamous Life: The Autobiography Of Mobb Deep’s Prodigy.

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T.I. went the fiction route with some help from David Rittz with the novel Trouble & Triumph: A Novel of Power & Beauty.

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From Pieces To Weight: Once Upon A Time In Southside Queens was as close to Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ as one could get courtesy of 50 Cent and Kris Ex.

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Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA joined The New York Times bestseller list in 2009 after penning The Tao Of Wu.

You can only pre-order it, but Scarface and Benjamin Meadows Ingram’s Diary Of A Madman: The Geto Boys, Life, Death, and the Roots of Southern Rap will be a must have when it drops in April of 2015.

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Would anyone like to guess how many Fugees stories are found in Wyclef Jean and Anthony Bozza’s Purpose: An Immigrant’s Story?

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Cee Lo Green’s Everybody’s Brother was a partial Goodie Mob affair, as both Big Gipp and David Wild also contributed.

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Common enjoyed the title of his 1997 album so much, he reused it for his book with Adam Bradley, One Day It’ll All Make Sense.

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Score one for one of Hip-Hop’s founding fathers (and David Ritz) for dropping The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats.

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Few titles are both as wordy and accurate as Douglas Century and Ice-T’s Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption from South Central to Hollywood

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How does one capture Earl Simmons in print? Ask Somkey D. Fontaine who co-wrote E.A.R.L.: The Autobiography Of DMX.

By his account, Buddha Monk’s effort is the closest readers will get to an autobiography from ODB. This fall, he released The Dirty Version: On Stage, in the Studio, and in the Streets with Ol’ Dirty Bastard along with Mickey Hess.

Public Enemy’s Chuck D seems like the perfect rapper to write several books. With the help of Spike Lee and Yusuf Jah, he released Fight the Power: Rap, Race and Reality.

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Jay Z teamed up with Dream Hampton to break down some of his lyrics with his 2010 book, Decoded.