Armstrong, E.G. (2004) ‘Eminem’s Construction of Authenticity’, Popular Music and Society, 27(3), pp. 335–355. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/03007760410001733170.
Dyson, Michael Eric (2007) ‘It’s Trendy to Be the Conscious MC’, in Know What I Mean? : Reflections on Hip-Hop. Basic Books. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/.
Edited by Justin D. Burton and Jason Lee Oakes (no date) ‘"I Still Don’t Understand Award Shows”: Kanye West and Hip Hop Celebrity in the Twenty-First Century’, in The Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Music. Available at: https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190281090.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190281090-e-27.
Elflein, D. (1998) ‘From Krauts with attitudes to Turks with attitudes: some aspects of hip-hop history in Germany’, Popular Music, 17(3), pp. 255–265. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261143000008539.
ERIC CHARRY (no date) ‘A Capsule History of African Rap’. Available at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gz8kj.4?refreqid=excelsior%3Af2008ffa8b6b912a802f84431f8b7356&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents.
Fabian Holt (2007) ‘Chapter 1: Introduction’, in Genre in Popular Music. University of Chicago Press. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/vuw/detail.action?docID=686254.
Forman, M. (2002) The ’hood comes first: race, space, and place in rap and hip-hop, Old School Geography: From the Disco to the Street. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press.
Grem, Darren E. (2013) ‘“The South got something to say”: Atlanta’s dirty South and the Southernization of Hip Hop America.’, Southern Cultures, 12(4), pp. 55–73. Available at: https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=vuw&id=GALE%7CA155871520&v=2.1&it=r.
Henderson, A.K. (2015) ‘Dancing Between Islands’:, in D. Basu and S.J. Lemelle (eds) The Vinyl Ain’t Final. Pluto Press, pp. 180–199. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt18mbd22.17.
Kautny, O. (2015) ‘Lyrics and flow in rap music’, in J.A. Williams (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Hip-Hop. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 101–117. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139775298.011.
Mark Katz (2012) ‘Out of the Bronx and into the Shadows: 1978-1983.’, in Groove Music : The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ. Oxford University Press USA - OSO. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/vuw/detail.action?docID=886549.
Michael Eric Dyson (no date) ‘Culture, Rhetoric, Crack, and the Politics of Hip Hop’, in Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip-Hop. Civitas Books.
Oware, M. (2011) ‘Brotherly Love: Homosociality and Black Masculinity in Gangsta Rap Music’, Journal of African American Studies, 15(1), pp. 22–39. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12111-010-9123-4.
Rose, T. (2008a) ‘Hip Hop Demeans Women’, in The hip hop wars: what we talk about when we talk about hip hop--and why it matters. New York: BasicCivitas. Available at: https://www.fulcrum.org/epubs/70795816m?locale=en#/6/250[xhtml00000125]!/4/1:0.
Rose, T. (2008b) ‘Introduction’, in The hip hop wars: what we talk about when we talk about hip hop--and why it matters. New York: BasicCivitas.
Shelley Brunt , and  Geoff Stahl (2018) ‘Giving Back in Wellington: Deep Relations, Whakapapa and Reciprocity in Transnational Hip Hop’, in Made in Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand : Studies in Popular Music. Routledge. Available at: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/vuw/reader.action?docID=5398326&ppg=184.
‘View of The Great Hip Hop Grant Scandal’ (no date). Available at: https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/jnzs/article/view/136/87.
Williams, J.A. (ed.) (2015) ‘Chapter 1: MC Origins : Rap and Spoken Word Poetry’, in The Cambridge companion to hip-hop. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781139775298.