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May 2, 2024 · That is the tension at play here: symbolic victories versus systematic rehabilitation. ... "Nevertheless, because hip-hop's grandest political moves have taken place on the stages of pop culture ...
May 8, 2024 · A verse by J. Cole on a Drake song last fall postulated himself, Drake, and Lamar as hip-hop’s “big three.” Earlier this year, Lamar replied with a correction: “It’s just big me,” he ...
May 6, 2024 · ValTown, an account on X and other social media platforms, spotlights gangs and drug kingpins of the 1980s and 1990s, illustrating how they have driven the aesthetics and the narratives of hip-hop.
3 days ago · Hip-hop is a true subculture that arose in the 1970s in the Bronx and consists of four things: rap music, DJs, graffiti and dance. What people don't really understand is that for many people, hip ...
1 day ago · Hip-hop has enriched the English language with slang and expressions that have entered everyday vernacular. Phrases like “bling,” “dope,” and “throwing shade” originated in hip-hop culture and are now widely used. Social and Political Influence & Global Culture. Hip-hop has been a powerful platform for social and political commentary.
May 7, 2024 · In one of the biggest beefs in recent hip-hop history, Drake and Kendrick Lamar are feuding — to the point that police were asked about their feud after a security guard was shot outside Drake’s Toronto mansion on Tuesday. But it wasn’t always this way. Over a decade ago, the pair collaborated on a few songs: On Drake’s 2011 track ...
1 day ago · Nas broke into the major hip-hop scene in 1994 with Illmatic, which remains widely regarded as the best hip-hop album of all time. But while his 1996 follow-up It Was Written continued his commercial and critical momentum, his career would enter a slump afterward that was righted in 2001 by his explosive diss track toward Jay-Z called “Ether.”
