Category: Best Of

The year 1992 not only brought a cornucopia of thrills, it also marked the beginning of the second half of what’s now known as the “golden era,” when the genre’s greatest peaks and worst tragedies were just beyond the horizon.

Of all the years when rap music grew from a fledgling sidebar for funk and disco into a global movement – or, to put it more succinctly, the golden age years – 1991 may be the most difficult to summarize. It was a prelude for what was to come.