1980s: looking for the perfect beat. Physical graffiti: breaking is hard to do / Sally Banes
Afrika bambaataa's hip-hop / Steven Hager
London rocks, Paris burns, and the B-boys break a leg / David Hershkovits
The South Bronx was getting a bad rap until a club called disco fever came along / Bill Adler
Rappin' with Russell: Eddie Murphying the flak-catchers / Nelson George
Teddy Riley's new jack swing / Barry Michael Cooper
Armageddon in effect / John Leland.
1990s: Pop goes the weasel. The house that rap built / Carol Cooper
The nigga ya hate to love / Joan Morgan
The rebirth of cool / Scott Poulson-Bryant
Native sons / Kevin Powell
Caught up in the (gangsta) rapture: Dr. C. Delores Tucker's crusade against "gangsta rap" / Kierna Mayo
Hell-raiser / Dream Hampton
Eazy living / Carter Harris
Chronicle of a death foretold / Cheo Hodari Coker
Haitian homecoming / Selwyn Seyfu Hinds and Bakari Kitwana
Allah's on me / Robert Marriott
No respect:a critic at large / Hilton Als
What the white boy means when he says yo / Charles Aaron
Foxy Brown is the illest / Danyel Smith
The show, the after-party, the hotel / Karen R. Good
Don't hate me because I'm ghetto fabulous / David Kamp
The hip-hop nation: whose is it? in the end, black men must lead / Toure.
