Category: Scenes Lists & Things

This chapter from a 2014-2015 series on early rap music focuses on how artists responded to the crack plague of the mid-to-late 1980s. It’s an example of how the culture has always illustrated current events throughout its history.

Revisit a time when West Coast rap musicians embraced chunky funk and soul loops while rejecting the corporatist “bling” era.

This 2011 post for Rhapsody attempted to cover the hip-hop community’s response to the 9/11 attacks.