The Chronic and the Sound That Defined Golden Age Hip-Hop
In 1992, Dr. Dre traded N.W.A’s fury for slow-rolling funk and turned a Long Beach unknown named Snoop Dogg into a star — rewriting what Golden Age hip-hop could sound like.
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On This Day: July 2, 1982 — Lawn Chair Larry’s Wild Flight
On July 2, 1982, a 33-year-old truck driver named Larry Walters — soon nicknamed Lawn Chair Larry — tied 42 helium weather balloons to an aluminum patio chair and floated 16,000 feet over Los Angeles. He carried a pellet gun, a CB radio, sandwiches and a six-pack, drifted into the flight path of Long Beach…
