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8 Books That Define and Defy the Canon of Hip Hop Literature

8 Books That Define and Defy the Canon of Hip Hop Literature

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Discovering Ralph Waldo Emerson in the Golden Age of Sneakers

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"Only a phase, these dark café days."

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Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop

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