The Nasty “Terrible” T-KID 170 is the autobiography of graffiti writer Julius Cavero aka T-KID 170. This autobiography chronicles the life of a gang member, turned graffiti artist and style mentor for urban youth—the uncensored Bronx hip-hop story. During a gang shoot-out in a local park, Julius Cavero suffered three shots to the leg, one nearly severing his major artery. Left for dead, by gang rivals and so-called comrades, T-Kid survived the ordeal only to come face-to-face with 3 weeks of intensive surgical procedures…

Martha Cooper has the reputation of being the first and foremost photographer of emerging Hip Hop culture in New York City. However, the Hip Hop culture is just one of Cooper’s many photographic fortes. From 1977 to 1980, Martha Cooper was a staff photographer on the New York Post. She worked out of her car, driving to assignments around the city’s five boroughs. Always on the lookout for interesting “weather” shots, Martha habitually drove through the Lower East Side of Manhattan on her way back to the Post at the end of the day to develop her film…

In 1985, B-Boys were all the rage but where were the girls? Fast-forward twenty years for the answer: We B*Girlz, a lively look at the hot and happenin’ world of B-Girlz of the twenty-first century as documented by photographer Martha Cooper and writer Nika Kramer. Breaking is back with a new twist as today’s fly girls can battle the best of them…

PowerHouse Books is pleased to announce the September 2005 release of Public Access: Ricky Powell Photographs 1985-2005 with texts by Ricky Powell, Charlie Ahearn, Glenn O’Brien, Zoe Cassavetes, ZEPHYR, QUIK, DR. REVOLT and TEAM. “Ricky Powell, aka the Rickster, has seen a lot of history. he has worked variously as a busboy, bike messenger, Frozade vender, substitute teacher, columnist, cable television host, comic, and dog walker. But he is best known as a wisecracking, self-described ‘playground rat’ who used his beat-up Minolta and party-crashing skills to become a nightlife fixture and a chronicler of the then-exploding world of Hip Hop." – The New York Times…

Once upon a time before crack, inner city communities were blighted by poverty and unemployment – but not by the drug wars that tore families apart, destroying lives with needless violence and mindless addiction. Once upon a time before crack, pride and style were as inseparable as a box and mixtape, or as a pair of shoes and matching purse. Once upon a time before crack, Jamel Shabazz was on the scene, working the streets of New York City, capturing the faces and places of an era that have long since disappeared…

Known for paving the way for female emcees such as Lil’ Kim, Foxy Brown and Missy Elliott, MC Lyte continues her mission of inspiration – but this time with her book entitled “Just My Take” which includes poetry and words of inspiration from the legend herself.

By Robert Fay (excerpted from Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition. Edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah. (Oxford University Press, April 2005)

As a freshman horror author in the publishing world. Deon C. Sanders, a father of six, is on his way to writing numerous bestselling horror novels, inspiring poems, and feature film screenplays. However, his passion is horror writing. His first horror novel “Miss Mary Weather: A Southern Nightmare” has been a success in the minds of horror readers and has been well received in Chicago and in other major city bookstores.

Macon Detornay hates the white man. A tattoo of “4-29-92″ (the date of the LA Riots) brands his arm, and now he’s pulling guns on the “white devils” who bark orders at him from the backseat of his New York City cab, and taking their wallets. Macon is a white teenager from Newton, Massachusetts, two weeks into his freshman year at Columbia University.

How about a quick break from all the rap music tracks bangin’ out of our car stereos and headphones. A little reading ain’t never hurt nobody!! But what should we read? There aren’t that many fresh books on Hiphop Kulture out there?! Especially not books that truly touch the human soul, inspire, motivate, and provide a sense of direction and purpose.