Golden Era of Hip Hop

HIP HOP

HIP HOP( N O W A D A Y S

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HIP HOP( N O W A D A Y S

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HIP HOP( N O W A D A Y S

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HIP HOP

THE GOLDEN

AGE OF HIPHOP1985-

1995

“[The golden age was a time] when it seemed that

every new single reinvented the genre”-

“[The golden age was a time] when it seemed that

every new single reinvented the genre”-

“There were so many

important,

groundbreaking albums

coming out right about

that time.”

- Sia Michel, Editor-in-chief for

“[The golden age was a time] when it seemed that

every new single reinvented the genre”-

“There were so many

important,

groundbreaking albums

coming out right about

that time.”

- Sia Michel, Editor-in-chief for

 "The thing that made that era so great is that nothing was contrived. Everything was sti l l being discovered and everything was sti l l innovative and new”

- Sway Calloway

CHARACTERISTICS

BEATS

CHARACTERISTICS

BEATS

SAMPLED JAZZ, ROCK, ELECTROIC AND FUNK MUSIC

CHARACTERISTICS

BEATS

SAMPLED JAZZ, ROCK, ELECTROIC AND FUNK MUSICCOMPLEX WORDPLAY AND

“LYRICAL KUNG FU”

CHARACTERISTICS

BEATS

SAMPLED JAZZ, ROCK ELECTROIC AND FUNK MUSICCOMPLEX WORDPLAY AND

“LYRICAL KUNG FU”

EMPHASIS ON BLACK NATIONALISMAND AFROCENTRICTY

CHARACTERISTICS

BEATS

SAMPLED JAZZ, ROCK ELECTROIC AND FUNK MUSICCOMPLEX WORDPLAY AND

“LYRICAL KUNG FU”

EMPHASIS ON BLACK NATIONALISMAND AFROCENTRICTY

INDIVIDUAL SOUND WAS DETERMINED BY REGION

THE

ALBUMS

SO WHAT HAPPENED?

"In the beginning, when we started,

you had rap groups striving to say something new, to be different from

one another. But now it seems like rap artists are all trying to sound the

same so that they can hang on to their record contracts.”

Chuck D., Public Enemy-

IN CONCLUSIO

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