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.
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In an essay originally written for Maura magazine, the 1996 renaissance of female rappers resonates as a time of missed opportunity.
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A remembrance of the work of DOOM, the greatest rapper/producer of his era.
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In a year that marked the first full year of recorded rap music, a song that debuted several months before continued to shadow it all.…
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Most stories on 1990 treat it as a series of triumphs: Ice Cube’s first solo classic, Public Enemy’s landmark third album, A Tribe Called Quest’s…
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