#Hiphopculture

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ODB Forever 👑

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Hey PALs! #FatJoe says music is #African and that #Africa is the origine of the mainstream vibes we enjoy now. Thoughts? #afrolatino #afrobeats #afropop #afromusic #africanmusic #africandiaspora

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Eminem (known then as M&M), in the rap group "Soul Intent"

Photographed in late 1991 in Warren, Michigan.

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Beyoncé on the cover of Blast magazine, a now defunct Japanese magazine. March 2001 issue.

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QUEENSBRIDGE

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I sip the Dom P, watching "Gandhi" 'til I'm charged Then writing in my book of rhymes, all the words past the margin

-Nas

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'Outcast' is available on most streaming platforms. A song about embracing what makes you different. Lady Nahualli raps over a drill beat with a lot of angst and goes on to sing an R&B inspired hook with sensual notes. This is the song you want to play in your active hours. 🏔️🐺🏔️

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Bounce To these Beats and Show Some Love 🫶

[aaliyahunleashed]

October Throwback

"Her music is still awesome and better than a lot of music out today. Everybody knows what Aaliyah did and done for music and culture period". - Lil Wayne on Aaliyah (October 4, 2012) when asked about the latest posthumous collaboration released from Drake a few months prior.

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The new school of hip hop was the second wave of hip hop music, originating in 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D.M.C. and LL Cool J. As with the hip hop preceding it (which subsequently became known as old-school hip hop), the new school came predominantly from New York City. The new school was initially characterized in form by drum machine-led minimalism, with influences from rock music, a hip hop "metal music for the 80s–a hard-edge ugly/beauty trance as desperate and stimulating as New York itself." It was notable for taunts and boasts about rapping, and socio-political commentary, both delivered in an aggressive, self-assertive style. In image as in song its artists projected a tough, cool, street b-boy attitude.

These elements contrasted sharply with much of the previous funk- and disco-influenced hip hop groups, whose music was often characterized by novelty hits, live bands, synthesizers, and "party rhymes" (not all artists prior to 1983–84 had these styles). New-school artists made shorter songs that could more easily gain radio play, and they produced more cohesive LP albums than their old-school counterparts. By 1986, their releases began to establish the hip-hop album as a fixture of mainstream music. Hip hop music became commercially successful, as exemplified by the Beastie Boys' 1986 album Licensed to Ill, which was the first rap album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts.

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