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…
…of us viewed that shift as the start of the Golden Age. Grandmaster Caz & the Cold Crush, The Treacherous Three, and Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five laid the…
…The Enemy Strikes Black ranked No. 2 in The Village Voice’s 1991 Pazz & Jop critics’ poll, No. 7 on SPIN’s 20 Best Albums of the Year in 1991, with…
In this sixth part of our 5 Classic Records You Don’t Own, But Should series, we highlight another five Golden Age gems – five albums that got plenty of love…
…murder/Kill A Rapper. Not far from the truth such a statement resonates within Hip Hop. In this article, we look at some unsolved murders from Hip Hop’s Golden Age. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHqNzsgjE28…
…1985 would turn out to be the middle of three years that were the lead-up period to Hip Hop’s real breakout years and the start of the Golden Age. For…
…Clark Kent, Pete Rock, Father Shaheed, Nick Wiz and DJ Premier. It contains lyrical themes that concern Hip Hop’s golden age, Rakim’s rapping prowess, and the state of Hip Hop….
…create generic, mindless rap that would become a bane to the genre. But in ’95 the Golden Age still was in full swing, with a bunch of all-time classic albums…
…make beats and launches Hip-Hop’s Golden Age, culminating in the epic fury of Public Enemy. Ep. 4 THE BIRTH OF GANGSTA RAP Ice-T uses Hip Hop to reflect the violence…
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…but it also features production by Skeff Anselm, Stimulated Dummies, and Dave “Jam” Hall. The album’s production contains many motifs of Hip Hop’s golden age including James Brown-sampled breakbeats and…
…the era at the time. Although the “golden era” started in ‘88, the elements and influence came from the early eighties. Red hot artists at the time like Jungle Brothers,…