Originally serialized on the hugely popular website Boing Boing, The Hip Hop Family Tree is an encyclopedic comics history of the formative years of hip hop capturing the vivid personalities and magnetic performances of old-school pioneers and early stars.

Chiefly illustrations.

v. 1. 1970s-1981 -- v. 2. 1981-1983 -- v. 3. 1983-1984 -- v. 4. 1984-1985