Books can be fun. Hip hop and sneaker books can be funner. Is that even a word? Well, it is now…Get your read on.

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RAP UP – THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO HIP HOP AND R&B
Cameron Lazerine and Devin Lazerine (Grand Central Publishing)
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Rap For Dummys? Why, yes. A spin off from the American (where else?) bimonthly hip hop magazine Rap-Up, founded by the Lazerine brothers, divulges everything you ever wanted to know about your hip hop ABCs.

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50 X 50
50 Cent (Simon & Schuster)
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You’ll be about as excited as a kid in a, um, Candy Shop with this 50 Cent pop up book. The G-Unit mogul gives up his memorabilia for the book (albeit reproduced) including cute-ass photos of Fiddy as a juniour… word.

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ADIDAS
Chen Jiaojiao (Edition Habit Press)
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Almost as good as a fresh pair of kicks itself… everything you ever wanted to know about the label that was headed by a German dude called Adi Dassler… no way.

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SNEAKERS
Luo LV & Zhang Huiguang (Southbank Publishing)
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If you like Sneaker Freaker or own a copy of Sneakers: The Complete Collectors’ Guide then pick this up because lets face it – you can never have too many books on sneakers.

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The Breaks: Stylin’ and Profilin’ 1982–1990
Photographs by Janette Beckman; texts by Bill Adler and Tom Terrell (Powerhouse Books)
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It was 1982 when British music photographer Janette Beckman moved to the epicentre of all things cool: New York City. It was also around the same time that hip hop was slowly starting to explode – trains were covered in graf, boomboxes were blaring and DJs, MCs, b-boys, fly girls and graf writers were on the rise despite crew putting it down to a “fad”. Enter: The Breaks. The coolest book on the planet? Yes.