It’s time for another twentieth-anniversary salute, this time we focus on a Hip Hop album that solidifies and personifies the soul of what Hip Hop represents: education, love of culture,…
…the underground circuit when it was released in 1987 and today is celebrated as an early classic of Hip Hop as a revolution and visionary political vehicle in hardcore rap….
HipHopGoldenAge was founded to celebrate classic Hip Hop and the pioneers of the music and culture we all love, and also to provide a counter-weight to the emptyheaded bubblegum rap…
…Hip Hop albums and comments on its musical legacy, “Recorded at a time before ‘street’ and ‘experimental’ were mutually exclusive terms, it ushered in hip-hop’s sampladelic golden age and laid…
…the author of nine books, including The Hip Hop 10 and Hip Hop Scholar, all of which are available in paperback and Kindle. In addition to his own site, his…
Pretty much ever since Hip Hop originated, there have been projects that couldn’t be stickered with one specific genre-label. At first, there were artists who used Hip Hop influences but…
…ancestor and major influencer of progress for the Hip Hop genre as a whole. Back in 1979, the world was a very different place, and Hip Hop was still a…
50 Underappreciated 1990s Hip Hop Albums | Part 3: Discussing the ‘best ever‘ Hip Hop albums is a fun but often futile exercise. It is fun because it forces you…
…collection reflects the richness of LA’s Hip Hop scene after 1996. Also read: 25 Essential Compton Hip Hop Albums | 25 Essential Los Angeles Hip Hop Albums | Part 1…
50 Under-appreciated 1990s Hip Hop Albums: Discussing ‘best ever’ Hip Hop albums is fun, but at the same time often a futile exercise. It’s fun because it forces you to…
…Rock’s death, and built a discography that doubles as a classroom—Sex and Violence (1992) biting hard, The Gospel of Hip-Hop book preaching wider. His Temple of Hip-Hop initiative, launched in…
Alternative Hip Hop, Experimental Hip Hop, Abstract Hip Hop, Left-field Hip Hop, Industrial Hip Hop, Noise Hip Hop – there’s no shortage of labels to stick on acts and albums…
