Ever dreamed of owning a super-duper limited edition (like one pair only in the whole wide world) pair of Nike Air Yeezys? How about some rare Loop Dreams T-Shirts? Or  Glow In The Dark Tour and Thank You And You’re Welcome! books all signed by none other than Kanye West himself? Well, lucky this isn’t an internet hoax. It’s fo real and it’s coming to you from Karmaloop (http://www.karmaloop.com/klswap/KanyesClosetLanding.aspx). All you have to do is sign up now to be alerted when the Autographed Yeezys drop as well as when other rare and limited gear from Kanye’s closet goes live for bidding! Easy peasy.

Reebok and Hellz Bellz have schmoozed each other and the result? A fresh-looking pair of kicks. All you need to know is they are being released on the net on Fri Nov 27 and you can keep checking here http://www.hellz-bellz.com/ until they land.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.