Gosa, Travis. "Hip-Hop Politics, Activism, and the Future of Hip-Hop It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop: The Rise of the Post-Hip-Hop Generation by Asante, Molefi K. All About the Beat: Why Hip-Hop Can't Save Black America by McWhorter, John H. The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk.." Journal of Popular Music Studies 21.2 (2009): 240-246. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article really deals with the politics of hip-hop. It deals with how rap is growing and how it's only going to get bigger as time goes on. This article is very important because there are a lot of poilitics involved in hip-hop. This article deals a lot with the culture of hip-hop as well. I thnk that this is a very good article.

Stewart, Jesse. "Real to Reel: Filmic Constructions of Hip Hop Cultures and Hip Hop Identities." Interdisciplinary Humanities 26.2 (2009): 49-67. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 19 Nov. 2010. This article deals with a lot of issues that are very apparent in our culture. A lot of movies these days are centered around a lot of elements of hip-hop. There are many actors in Hollywood that got their start in hip-hop. This article explains how hip-hop has taken over music and film industry, which shows how popular it has become.

Kitwana, Bakari. The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture. New York: Basic Civitas, 2002. Print. This book talks about how rap has negatively influenced young black kids. I think that this book is very important because this is a bit of a problem in the black community and I think that it needs to be addressed. Although hip-hop has positive factors, it has a lot of negative factors that deal with not only blacks, but all races. This book discusses a lot of important issues, and I think it provides a lot of good information.

Mitchell, Tony. Global Noise: Rap and Hip-hop outside the USA. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 2001. Print.T his book describes how rap has grown in other countries other than the U.S. Most people don't think of rap as being something that is international, but it has grown to almost all of Europe and is even getting started in Asia. Rap is becoming the most popular type of music in the whole world and reading this book confirms that. Rap is huge and it's only going to get bigger as time moves on because soon the generation that listens to rap will become older and take up more of the population.

Kato, M. T. From Kung Fu to Hip Hop: Globalization, Revolution, and Popular Culture. Albany: State University of New York, 2007. Print. This book describes how much pop culture has changed over the years. In the old days, action heros were cowboys and policemen, whereas now, they are thugs with guns and muscle that look scary and talk tough. Culture has just changed so much and this book does an excellent job of pointing that out

Darby, Derrick, and Tommie Shelby. Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason. Chicago: Open Court, 2005. Print. This book uses fun and easy to read essays that ask many questions, linking the cultural issues in hip-hop to the weighty matters examined by the great philosophers of the past. This book proves that rhyme and reason can be mixed and mastered to contemplate life's most profound mysteries. This book proves that hip-hop is more than cuss words and loud beats, but that it also tells stories that can end up being beneficial.

Rose, Tricia. The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk about When We Talk about Hip Hop--and Why It Matters. New York: BasicCivitas, 2008. Print.

The Hip-Hop Wars is a very good source for the hip-hop movement. It explains a lot about how the rap culture caught on in the late eighties, and how it has positive and negative effects on the world. The author of this book is somewhat biased against hip-hop, so this isn't the best source to use if you're not looking for ant bias. The author seems to be speaking to an audience of parents because it seems like she is really against allowing children to get involved in the Hip-Hop Movement. However, this is a very good source because it has a lot of information, and uses a lot of description.