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Rapper's Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made The World

Rapper's Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made The World

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Synthesizes decades of cultural change into one sensational story – Modern Luxury

Why It Made The List

This is the hip hop bible in visual form; an expertly curated, image-rich archive that narrates its power and influence on every page. Dr. Todd Boyd runs the story chronologically from the 1970s to now, using photographs, fine art, advertisements, book, magazine and album covers, and film stills to track the people, places, events, objects, outfits and inspirations that pushed it from underground subculture to global movement. From the South Bronx parties that lit the fuse, through South Central LA and Atlanta’s trap houses, all the way to Met Gala red carpets, it shows hip hop’s outsized impact on fashion, film, art, sport, politics and language. Swizz Beatz calls it “a must have for collectors, artists, dreamers, and hip hop heads everywhere,” and we're inclined to agree.

 

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SPECIFICATIONS

Title: Rapper's Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made The World
Publisher: Phaidon
Author: Dr. Todd Boyd
Format: Hardback
Pages: 298
Illustrations: 430
Dimensions: 27 cm x 20.5 cm

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Rapper’s Deluxe: How Hip Hop Made the World is Dr. Todd Boyd’s visual history of hip hop, told through the culture’s own artefacts and imagery rather than a single-thread music narrative. It’s a book about how a sound became a way of seeing, dressing, speaking, and moving through the world.

The pages pull from photography, art, advertising, and printed matter, then cut in film imagery and other archive sources to show how style, place, and identity travel together. The emphasis is on the visual record; covers, stills, and ephemera do as much work as the text.

Rather than circling one city or moment, it tracks scenes and shifts over time, showing how local codes become global reference points. Along the way it treats the familiar pillars, including MCs, DJs, producers, fashion, and media, as part of a wider ecosystem that includes sport, politics, and language.

It reads well in short runs as a dip-in reference, but it’s structured to build a clear arc when taken cover to cover. The result is a broad cultural map of hip hop, made for browsing, re-reading, and pulling details from.

Hardback; 298 pages; 270mm × 205mm; 430 illustrations.

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