How the Cassette Mixtape Fueled Golden Age Hip-Hop
Before streaming, a $10 cassette from a folding table on Canal Street could break a rapper’s career. Inside the mixtape underground that powered Golden Age hip-hop.
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Birth of Hip Hop: How NYC Block Parties Built the 80s
From a Bronx rec room in 1973 to Run-DMC selling out arenas, here’s how hip hop crawled out of NYC block parties and took over the 80s — boomboxes, breakdancing, and all.
