While looking for texts on the Puerto Rican connection to the invention of #HipHop (yep, we were there on the ground floor in a big way) I found two specific books "New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone" by Raquel Z. Rivera and "From Bomba to Hip-Hop" by Juan Flores. While these are incredible works of thought and research, the language is massively academic and inaccessible. Then I stumbled upon "Can't Stop Won't Stop : A History of the Hip Hop Generation" by Jeff Chang. Wow! Super easy to read, and Chang dives deep into the world Kool Herc inhabited in Jamaica and that he brought with him to the Bronx to help kick start the birth of this amazing culture. But he also unpacks the gang cultures, dominated by Puerto Ricans and the political and socio-economic context of the time that set the stage for Hip Hop's birth. A truly monumental and necessary history book. Can't recommend it enough. https://archive.org/details/cantstopwontstop00chang