ASAP Rocky
"I love Harry Potter and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me! Either The Sorcerer's Stone, The Chamber Of Secrets, The Prisoner Of Azkaban, The Goblet Of Fire or The Half-Blood Prince. I'm the biggest Harry Potter fan in the f***ing world. Does that freak you out? You've gotta be yourself. I love Harry Potter and JK Rowling - don't laugh at me!"
J. Cole
"Eye Of The Hurricane by Rubin Carter.
I never saw the movie with Denzel Washington, but the book [on which it is based] is incredible. It's about a boxer who is a hometown hero in New Jersey because he went to juvie, then the army, made it big as a pro and then was wrongly accused of a triple murder. It's kind of inspiring - and it makes me think, 'Man, what have I really done?'"
Ice Cube
"Quincy Jones' autobiography Q is very good. Because he's a master at music, he's one of our greatest composers and its good for him to have a book and tell the good ole days when he was with Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughan and Ray Charles. The reason he got to work with so many people was because he was one of the few musicians around who could write out the arrangements. He was in everybody's session. He learned so much."
Childish Gambino
"I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome. I like the way they think - it suits me. The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time by Mark Haddon is great. That and [Jonathan Safran Foer's] Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close - they're on a separate bookshelf. They don't understand what the other books are saying by their facial expressions, but they're perfectly lined-up."
Dizzee Rascal
"Think And Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad was the first that made me think differently - I read the whole series. Then there was the DVD of [Rhonda Byrne's] The Secret which told me pretty much what I already knew - there was no mystery there. The books' approach is really empowering. They're really indiscriminate and really helpful. Unless you do know a super-millionaire personally, which most of us don't, I don't know where you're going to get that very digestable advice. Makes you believe, man."
Trey Songz
"Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. I actually just started reading it - I'm telling you a good book to read I haven't finished people! Jay Z actually recommended that I read it - it gives you a lot of life lessons. In any business there are certain principles that would work in every walk of life and will help you."
Azealia Banks
"I feel like I'm just stealing ideas from Jay-Z. I read his book Decoded and in the back he recommends The Seat Of The Soul by Gary Zukav. It's basically about soul versus personality and multi-sensory personality versus the five-sensory personality - the people whose souls operate with spiritual guidance against people who can only see the earth, the beginning and the end. You really find out a lot about yourself when you read that book."
Kreayshawn
"Right now I'm reading Pimp by Iceberg Slim. It's got me wanting to put my foot in a hoe's ass for real. I read it before but not very thoroughly so I'm reading it now because I've just got a Kindle. I grew up in Oakland where a lot of pimping and underage prostitution went on so I can relate. I can put myself in that position, but as a pimp. It's a fantasy."
Chiddy Bang
"The Man Who Recorded the World is a biography of Alan Lomax, who's the folklorist in the United States who was the first person to record people like Leadbelly and various other blues artists. He travelled around the South in the Forties with a wax cylinder machine to record these artists who no-one had ever recorded before. It's amazing to read as a producer and engineer, but also as someone who travels a lot and is exposed to a lot of different music. It's by John Szwed, who also did a biography of Miles Davis."
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