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Article Apr 29 2019

Breakdown: “Self Destruction” Stop The Violence Movement (1989)

This is one of the most important songs in Hip Hop history, embodying the true spirit of Hip Hop. The Stop the Violence Movement was formed by Hip Hop icon KRS-One, after a Boogie Down Productions and Public Enemy concert where a young fan was killed in a fight. That killing occurred shortly after Scott […]
list Apr 28 2019

March & April 2019 Round-Up: 6 Hip Hop Albums You Need To Hear

Last months article February 2019 Round-Up: 6 Hip Hop Albums You Need To Hear listed 6 albums we feel should be a least considered for the top spots on 2019 end-of-year lists; no matter how early it is in the year and how many potentially excellent Hip Hop albums we can still expect to drop […]
list Apr 25 2019

4 Important Hip Hop Albums From The Early 2010s

Too often people complain that Hip Hop isn’t what it used to be. True enough: if you only consider most of what the mass-media is serving up, you would be forgiven to think that Hip Hop is nothing but a shadow of its former self. In the late eighties and early nineties all kinds op […]
list Apr 23 2019

Underground Hip Hop Check: Best Doomtree Projects

Regular visitors of this website will know that HHGA was created to celebrate and help keep alive our favorite period in Hip Hop – the Golden Age: say the mid-eighties through the mid- to end-nineties. However, we are also here to wax enthusiastically about good Hip Hop released in more recent years. Just before the […]