…Muhammad along with Q-Tip and Phife Dawg showcase how rap was done before commercial success influenced many rappers’ creativity. The album’s minimalist sound is “stripped to the essentials: vocals, drums,…
…personal or emotional, about family and fatherhood and such, other songs have some conscious and political tendencies, some are about Hip Hop (history) and some songs have that typical R.A….
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…of highly influential independent Rap projects. As the Rap world went from having the underground be a farm system for the major label/mainstream Rap industry they soon became two separate…
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…deal and changed their name to OutKast. Their first single, 1993’s “Players’ Ball,” was a Christmas song, and it stayed at No. 1 on the rap charts for six weeks….
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…outlook, and sounded like nothing I had ever heard. One night, in the the late 1980s, the song Bring the Noise was introduced to me, as my friend Mike O’Leary…
…perfectly encapsulates Gang Starr’s artistic evolution. Guru’s razor-sharp rhymes, delivered with impeccable timing, effortlessly glide over Premier’s intricate production, resulting in a symbiotic collaboration that represents the duo’s creative synergy….
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