Revisit a time when West Coast rap musicians embraced chunky funk and soul loops while rejecting the corporatist “bling” era.
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Tag: Hip-Hop 2000s
Remembering Hip-Hop’s Response to 9/11
This 2011 post for Rhapsody attempted to cover the hip-hop community’s response to the 9/11 attacks.
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The Los Angeles electronic music scene is unlike any other in the world. For one thing, it is closely-knit – its main participants have usually…
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When the indie-rap movement swept through hip-hop culture in the mid-to-late 90s, it seemed to completely skip over the South. Sure, there were subterranean groups…
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Nu-funk, nu-jazz, and future soul … these were the terms used to describe underground soul in the mid-2000s. It was an international movement that spread…
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