Maybe it's the sample, a mercurial sped-up marimba melody from a Billy Cobham jazz-fusion song. Or maybe it's the familiar boom-bap beat, or the warm, wistful bassline, or the fact that this prophetic ...
Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. When I moved to Madison, Ala., in the summer of 1993, I was nervous, to ...
On the face of it, it’s one of hip-hop history’s most perplexing mysteries – if, admittedly, perhaps not the most pressing. How come the Souls of Mischief’s truly excellent debut didn’t turn the band ...
Los Angeles was the molten-hot core of hip-hip in the early ’90s, and no year was more heated than 1993. The feud between Dr. Dre and Eazy-E had bubbled over, leading to the eye-for-an-eye releases of ...
“Our whole energy was: these punk ass cops, and this crime wave, aren’t going to stop our chill,” A-Plus said. “I guess the music represented another hiding spot [for us all].” The immortal song he is ...
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