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 ...

When people think of West Coast rap, their minds immediately go towards the stars of the ’90s. After New York laid the pathway as the mecca of hip-hop, rappers out of California bridged their ...

We have discussed before how the 1990s belonged to rap and grunge. However, we can’t ignore the underrated relic Trip-Hop. A fusion of hip hop and electronica, Trip-Hop is very much defined by slow ...

Released in 1995, this landmark album introduced a groundbreaking sound that helped reshape rap music. Thirty-one years ago today, one of hip-hop’s most influential albums arrived with little ...