1994: The Twelve Months That Rewrote Rap Forever
In a single year, Nas, Biggie, and OutKast turned the Golden Age of hip-hop into something permanent. Here’s why 1994 still stands as rap’s greatest twelve months.
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How Old School Hip-Hop Took Over the World, 1979–1989
Old school hip-hop went from Bronx block parties to the Billboard charts in ten short years. Here’s how two turntables and a microphone changed everything.
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Walk This Way: How Run-DMC and Aerosmith Changed Music Forever
On a humid August night in 1973, a teenage DJ named Clive Campbell looped a drum break in a Bronx rec room — and accidentally invented a sound that would swallow the planet.
