San Antonio College Library

Rap has emerged as one of the most influential cultural forces of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In this work, the editors demonstrate that rap is also a wide reaching and vital poetic tradition born of beats and rhymes. This pioneering anthology brings together more than three hundred lyrics written over thirty years, from the "old school" to the "golden age" to the 2000s. Rather than aim for encyclopedic coverage, the editors render through...