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Retrospective Dec 22 2023

From Ghostwriting Controversies To Global Triumph: The Journey of Rapper’s Delight

…part of the Bronx Hip Hop scene. The debates reflected broader discussions on power, privilege, and representation, emphasizing the need for nuanced conversations about cultural exchange. When Hip Hop was…
Article Jun 25 2021

Hip Hop Tracks Used Outside The Music World

…in-game Hip Hop radio stations, with tracks from the likes of Gucci Maine and A$AP Rocky. Def Jam: Icon is another video game title with Hip Hop at heart. Many…
Article Sep 27 2024

N.W.A: Revolutionizing Hip Hop With “Straight Outta Compton” And Beyond

…for artists like Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur, and the broader G-funk movement that defined 1990s Hip Hop. In many ways, N.W.A wasn’t just a Hip Hop group—they were a political…
Article Nov 17 2015

“STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON” A Historical Movie Tour

…created locations for Hip Hop’s seed to manifest. Today, those Hip Hop seeds have given way to the creation of West Coast Hip Hop culture and gangsta rap. These various…
artist Nov 13 2015

9th Wonder

…a love of what Hip Hop used to be. The media has demonized Hip Hop in the last 10 years; so many Black Americans tend to shy away from the…
list Oct 5 2019

Hip Hop For Grown-Ups: 9 Overlooked Hip Hop Albums From The 2010s That Everybody Needs To Listen To

…forgiven to think that Hip Hop is nothing but a shadow of its former self. In the late eighties and early nineties all kinds of Hip Hop made it into…
Article Aug 17 2015

Straight Outta Compton Shows Old School Hip Hop Is Alive

…the big screen. The Hip Hop lineage for movies includes Downtown 81, Wild Style, Beat Street, Krush Groove and Breakin’. Do the Right Thing represented Hip Hop in clothing and…
Article Apr 30 2020

Hip Hop Three-peat: A Tribe Called Quest

With our fourth Hip-Hop Three-peat entry, we are going to dive into perhaps the first group that came to many minds when we introduced this notion of Hip Hop Three-Peats…
Article Jun 26 2017

A Journey Through Hip Hop: The Tale Of A Snob

…the blowjob. Is this where Hip Hop dies? You don’t want it to be so, yet you’re convinced that Hip Hop isn’t anywhere near what it was in the 90’s…
artist Feb 2 2016

Lupe Fiasco

…upon hearing Nas’ 1996 album, It Was Written, began to pursue Hip Hop. While attending Thornton Township High School, Fiasco met gang member Bishop G. The two became friends due…
Article Nov 10 2019

Record Retrospective: Gravediggaz – 6 Feet Deep

…Hip Hop’s rawest talent. 6 Feet Deep is perhaps the most unknown classic in Hip Hop, and should undoubtedly be celebrated as one of the genre’s true works of art….
list Aug 15 2019

10 Important Old School Hip Hop Songs

…as ‘Old School’, but that is wrong. Old School Hip Hop is the period from the emergence of Hip Hop in 1973 to approximately 1986. On August 11, 1973, a…