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Word Up! Magazine was a popular teen entertainment magazine that debuted in August 1987. [1] It focused on hip-hop music and rap artists.. The magazine was name-checked by The Notorious B.I.G. in his 1994 hit song "Juicy": "It was all a dream; I used to read Word Up! magazine."
The West Coast hip-hop lifestyle of the ‘90s will live on forever in this—one of the most iconic songs and music videos of the genre, courtesy of the dream team that was Tupac and Dre. Listen ...
In the mid-1990s, neo soul, which added 1970s soul influences to the hip hop soul blend, arose, led by artists such as D'Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and Maxwell. Lauryn Hill and Missy Elliott further blurred the line between R&B and hip hop by recording both styles. D'Angelo's Brown Sugar was released in June 1995.
[39] [40] Hip hop scholar Michael Eric Dyson stated, "during the golden age of hip hop, from 1987 to 1993, Afrocentric and black nationalist rap were prominent", [41] and critic Scott Thill described the time as "the golden age of hip hop, the late '80s and early '90s when the form most capably fused the militancy of its Black Panther and Watts ...
Hip-Hop Prankster: MC Hammer: Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em: February 20 Above The Law: Livin' Like Hustlers: March 19 Salt-n-Pepa: Blacks' Magic: March 20 Digital Underground: Sex Packets: March 27 Everlast: Forever Everlasting: March 28 The Dogs: The Dogs: April 1 Three Times Dope: Live From Acknickulous Land April 10 A Tribe Called Quest
In the ‘90s, hip-hop started to explode a little bit larger, but it was still a subculture. It felt like I was the biggest fish in a much smaller tank. Then, what had happened is that some of ...
As hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary on Aug. 11, The Times looks back at the artists, songs and innovations that changed the course of popular culture. The 50 greatest moments in hip-hop history
Slant Magazine listed "Tennessee" at number 98 in their ranking of "The 100 Best Singles of the 1990s" in 2011, writing, "Perhaps no other track from the early ‘90s provided better (or catchier) proof that hip-hop was more versatile and capable than prevailing gangster-rap themes than Arrested Development’s "Tennessee", its stuttering ...