How Yo! MTV Raps Brought Golden Age Hip-Hop to America
Before hip-hop ruled the charts, it had to get on TV. Here’s how a scrappy, half-hour video show turned Golden Age hip-hop into a national obsession.
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Wu-Tang Forever: How Nine MCs from Staten Island Rewrote the Rules of Rap
Nine MCs from the forgotten borough. One master plan. How Wu-Tang Clan conquered the Golden Age of hip-hop and built an empire that nobody in the music industry saw coming.
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MC Hammer: The Rise, the Pants, the Bankruptcy, and the Legacy
On February 12, 1990 — the same day Nelson Mandela walked free from Victor Verster Prison — a 27-year-old kid from Oakland named Stanley Kirk Burrell released his third studio album and accidentally changed pop culture forever. By August, it was selling 100,000 copies a day. By the following spring, it had gone diamond with…
