Rap albums and the books they came from. A thread.
Ras Kass - Eldridge Cleaver (Soul On Ice)
Ja Rule - George Jackson (Blood In My eye)
The Roots - Chinua Achebe (Things Fall Apart)
Common - Laura Esquivel (Like Water for Chocolate)
The Roots - Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point)
Boogie Down Productions - Malcolm X (By Any/All Means Necessary)
Lauryn Hill - Carter G Woodson (The Mis-Education of the Negro/Lauryn Hill)
Mos Def - Victor Lavalle (The Ecstatic)
Bone Thugs - Sun Tzu (The Art of War)
Makaveli - Niccolò Machiavelli
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