Let’s get this out of the way at the beginning: there is no handful of songs that ever completely encapsulate any genre or artist or sound. The beauty of art is that it’s ephemeral—to quote a famed ...

One of the major reasons people fell in love with rap music upon its inception was that it was a powerful tool to open your mind. It was the deep-voiced Public Enemy frontman Chuck D who dubbed the ...

Hip-hop might have been born in the '70s, but it was in the '90s when the genre truly started to see commercial success. It was an era in which artistic creativity expanded, rivalries emerged, pop ...

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Music boasts many powers, many special abilities. One of those is its chance to transport the listener back to a different time. Want to feel the vibrant 1960s? Put on early Bob Dylan. The strange ...

A ranked list of the best music videos of the 1990s across all genres, including videos from TLC, Nirvana, Beck, Snoop Dogg ...

There are a lot of big names that music fans love in the world of hip-hop. From Jay-Z to Tupac to Dr. Dre to Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Cardi B, and many more. But the presence of all those high-wattage ...

Everyone calls the ’90s the Golden Age Hip-Hop. That’s cute—but it still feels like a lazy summary of a decade that completely rewrote the rules. Rap albums of the ’80s gave us the blueprint—Slick ...

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