9780883781753 | 1 edition (Third World Pr, September 1, 1994), cover price $10.00 | About this edition: This book is a critical review of the highly explosive and widely discussed musical art form called gangsta rap.

9780465029785 | 1 edition (Perseus Books, April 1, 2002), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Offers a look at the first post-segregation African American generation and discusses the views and attitudes of the 'hip-hop generationers,' black Americans born between 1965 and 1984.

9780465029792 | Reprint edition (Basic Civitas Books, April 23, 2003), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Discusses a generation of African Americans born between 1965 and 1984, and considers its historical significance, disproportionate incarceration and unemployment rates, collapse of gender relations, and experience revealed by music.

9780465037469 | Basic Books, June 15, 2005, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Our national conversation about race is out-of-date.

9780465037476 | Reprint edition (Basic Civitas Books, May 29, 2006), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Hip-hop has grown into the key to understanding questions of race in modern America, as demonstrated by a social commentator and music critic who analyzes hip-hop culture and why it enjoys such an overwhelming appeal to youth of every race.

9780883783085 | Third World Pr, October 31, 2012, cover price $14.95