Westside Gunn, And Then You Pray for Me
And Then You Pray for Me yields another hour of Griselda street heroics by toggling between “drumless” boom-bap and punch-drunk trap beats.
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And Then You Pray for Me yields another hour of Griselda street heroics by toggling between “drumless” boom-bap and punch-drunk trap beats.
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All Up in the Biz pays tribute to Biz Markie, whose tragically young demise remains fresh among the hip-hop community.
The intrigue surrounding Okayplayer’s future comes amid a dearth of sites that cover hip-hop with journalistic integrity.
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Welcome to Rap City explores the history of the much-missed video program with not enough vintage clips and too many talking heads.
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Most of the best hip-hop of 1981 didn’t appear on rap records — with Grandmaster Flash’s “Wheels of Steel” a gloriously historic exception.
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New Jersey writer Joseph Rathgeber discusses his zine Caltrops, which has become a key document of the underground rap renaissance.
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While Missy Elliott and the Neptunes dominated 2002, the rise of 50 Cent, Dipset, and Southern rap promised to transform the culture.
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More than just a doc of an indestructible pop act, Wham! offers an instructive look at how early rap penetrated the mainstream.
Few seem to know that one of the key brands in the 1992 film Juice is Valentino, Inc, a now-defunct library music company.
The yearlong #HipHop50 celebration has become a microcosm of the myths and reality that continue to define the culture.
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While 9/11 and Jay-Z vs. Nas defined the year, global forces began disrupting the cloistered rap industry, whether it was ready or not.
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In 1988, the late Sinéad O’Connor and Brooklyn rapper MC Lyte enjoyed a brief but memorable cross-cultural exchange.
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