…Hip Hop by one of today’s eminent music history institutions will help cement the legitimacy of the genre for future generations. If any groups of the Golden Age have deserved…
Top 40 Hip Hop Songs 1996: The final year of Hip Hop’s Golden Age? 1996 certainly was a year of endings, with the death of 2Pac, Hip Hop’s biggest icon….
…during the golden age of Hip Hop, its assemblage of reconfigured and recontextualized aural sources preceded the sample clearance system that later emerged in the music industry. Fear of a…
…year, joined forces to create this dope track. Freshco’s bars combined with some real Hip Hop turntablism by DJ Miz make this a Golden Age banger to be remembered. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeRt0–XzGY…
…album affirmed Masta Ace’s rightful place as a significant contributor to Hip Hop’s golden age era. Ace returned to the fold in 1993, this time with his crew as Masta…
VH1 has hosted 7 VH1 Hip Hop Honors shows (between 2004 and 2010). Hip Hop Honors honored old school and Golden Age Hip Hop artists with live performances by most…
…such as jazz, R&B, funk, and African music. Done by the Forces of Nature has been considered a golden age hip hop classic, as well as one of the greatest…
During the early nineties, when Hip Hop’s Golden Age was in full swing, so many excellent Hip Hop albums dropped that some of them didn’t really get the attention they…
…it appeared that Rakim was fading into the background along with other “golden age” rap luminaries, he dropped a dense monster that said otherwise. Paid in full? More like played…
…than the sum of its parts … sometimes [erroneously] assumed to be a product of the rock era.” Author Roy Shuker defines concept albums as albums that are “unified by…
…Some worse than others, but all the albums listed in this piece were unsatisfying for a variety of reasons. There’s no real ranking here, the albums are loosely ordered from…
…30 minutes). Now, let’s dive into our top 150 Hip Hop albums of the 2020s list. Do you spot your favorite albums from this era? Feel free to share your…