Summary: DJay, a very smalltime streetwise Memphis hustler and pimp, lives a dead-end life at the fringes of society. Though DJay has always had a way with words, that gift has long been misused--employed to keep his 'girls' producing. A chance encounter with Key, a sound engineer, spurs DJay to find a voice and realize his long-buried dreams. Chasing his musical dream transforms DJay, but opening the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Classics 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUSSummary: Jimmy, known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit is a white kid trying to make music in a predominantly African-American community and culture. After Rabbit freezes up in the midst of an MC battle, he's convinced he's missed his chance and that he's doomed to lead a marginal life as a factory rat for the rest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After musical mogul Lucious Lyon is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease, he must choose which of his three sons with succeed him at the legendary Empire entertainment company. The game changes when ex-wife Cookie returns from prison. This groundbreaking series features a pulsating soundtrack from legendary music hit maker Timbaland.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Chronicling the extraordinary life of Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Biggie transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to a pregnant woman) to superstardom. He has to juggle the increasing demands of fatherhood, marriage, and a music career that is strife with chaos and controversy. On March 8, 1997, in Los...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOTThomas, Angie
Summary: "Sixteen-year-old Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time. Or at least win the first battle. As the daughter of an underground hip-hop legend who died right before she hit big, Bris got massive shoes to fill. But it's hard to get your come up when you're labeled a hoodlum at school and your fridge at home is empty after your mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: YA PA FIC THOSummary: In a crowded South London apartment building, Penny, a working mom, struggles to keep her wayward daughter, her lazy son and her disillusioned partner on the right path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking viewers back to where it all began, the film tells the true story of how these cultural rebels-armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent-stood up to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA STRGutman, Dan
Summary: Rappy the Raptor and his classmates write poems about their favorite things to celebrate Poetry Week.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE GUTCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE GUTShahi, Arya
Summary: "Omid needs the right words to connect with his newly met grandfather and distant Iranian heritage, words to tell a special girl what she means to him and to show everyone that he truly belongs in Tucson, Arizona, the only home he's ever known. Neither the school play's Shakespearean English nor his parents' Farsi seems up to the task, and it's only when Omid delves into the rhymes and rhythms...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Allida, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC SHAReed, Dwayne
Summary: "Eleven-year-old Simon Barnes dreams of becoming a world-famous rapper that everyone calls Notorious D.O.G. But for now, he's just a Chicago fifth grader who's small for his age and afraid to use his voice. Simon prefers to lay low at school and at home, even though he's constantly spitting rhymes in his head. But when his new teacher assigns the class an oral presentation on something that...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC REESummary: A soulful look into the lives of four women living on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Determined to escape their poverty-stricken lives, they form a rap group, but find their road to success is riddled with sexism, racism and violence. Eventually, they learn that out of struggle comes strength and the courage to continue on.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ANTArtist Not Provided
Summary: Follows the musical adventures of preschool friends, the Backyardigans, as they become protectors of an egg that leads them through the land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2009
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BACDillard, J.
Summary: J.D. the Kid Barber has already won a barber battle and appeared on local TV. Now he's the youngest barber to be invited to the Beauty Brothers Hair Expo in Atlanta!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DILSummary: Female rapper Patti Cake$ takes advantage of every opportunity in her New Jersey hometown as she chases her dreams of music stardom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PATSummary: Two cousins work through the Atlanta music scene to better their lives and the lives of their families. Earn Marks is a young manager trying to get his cousin's career off the ground. Alfred is a new hot rapper trying to understand the line between real life and street life. Darius is Alfred's right-hand man and visionary. Van is Earns best friend and the mother of Earn's daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Empire returns for a third season, with its hottest music and most tantalizing storylines yet. While Lucious launches Empire's music streaming division, his half-brother Tariq launches a murder investigation of Lucious. And as Cookie's romance with Angelo Dubois heats up, so does Angelo's campaign for mayor. The Lyon brothers face troubles from the past, and all the while, the battle to control...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EMPSummary: Kareem leads an aimless life between odd jobs and hanging out with his buddies in a crime-ridden Arab ghetto of the mixed Israeli city of Lyd. A family tragedy brings him closer to his singer girlfriend, Manar, and motivates him to do something more with his life. When Kareem and his group finally get a chance to perform in a Tel Aviv hip-hop club, the star potential of the 'first Arab rapper'...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JUNGutman, Dan
Summary: When he takes a ride in a U.F.O. to meet Janet, the head alien, Rappy must make a decision to live with her on Mars or return home.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Gutman, Dan
Summary: When his class visits the library, Rappy uses his raps and rhymes to convince his bored classmates that the library is a fun place to be.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN GUTPrice, Daniel
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Villard Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PRIJackson, Tiffany D.
Summary: Brooklyn, 1998. When their best friend Steph is killed, Quadir and Jarrell don't want his tracks to lie forgotten. They know his beats could turn any Bed-Stuy corner into a celebration. With the help of Steph's younger sister, Jasmine, they come up with a plan to promote Steph's music under a new rap name: The Architect. When his mixtape catches the attention of a hotheaded music rep and, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2019
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YAFiction Jackson 2019Reed, Dwayne
Summary: Chicago fifth-grader Simon, an aspiring rapper who lacks self-confidence, uses his rhymes to help bring his community together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC REECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC REEThomas, Angie
Summary: As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time-- and has massive shoes to fill. She's been labeled a hoodlum at school, and the fridge at home is empty after her mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral -- for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed by the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018