All Music Guide Required Listening - Old School Rap & Hip-Hop

All Music Guide Required Listening - Old School Rap & Hip-Hop edited by Chris Woodstra, John Bush, and Stephen Thomas Erlewine. Reference. Softcover. 168 pages. Published by Backbeat Books.

With more than 500 reviews plus artist bios and the true tales of the birth of the art form, this is without a doubt the one book every hip-hop fan and would-be rapper needs.