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list May 19 2019

Best Spotify Hip Hop Playlists 1987-1996

Ask ten people and you will probably get ten different answers to the question of what period in time exactly constitutes Hip Hop’s Golden Age. Here at HHGA we always look at the ten-year period from 1987 through 1996. For your convenience and enjoyment, we have compiled a playlist with the very best songs from […]
list May 18 2019

Top 40 Hip Hop Albums 2009

2009 continued the trend set in the years previous – it may not have been spectacular in terms of releases that will eventually be considered classics – but it was another solid year for Hip Hop, with plenty of dope albums that will stand the test of time. For this list, we have ranked OUR […]
list May 17 2019

29 Essential 1980s Hip Hop Songs

On August 11, 1973, a DJ named Kool Herc threw a party in the basement of an apartment building at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in The Bronx, New York – a date now commonly seen as the day when Hip Hop was ‘born’. Of course, the foundations of Hip Hop were laid even earlier and in […]
list May 17 2019

Top 40 Hip Hop Albums 2008

2008 was the year of Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III and Kanye West’s 808’s & Heartbreak, two albums that did well commercially and that received a lot of critical acclaim too. There were also enough critics who didn’t love these albums though, and here at HHGA we belong to that particular camp. Auto-tune is a […]