East Coast hip-hop
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East Coast hip-hop is a regional subgenre of hip-hop music that originated in New York City during the 1970s. Hip-hop is recognized to have originated and evolved first in the Bronx borough of New Yor
RZA, producer and member of the Wu-Tang Clan
Nas's 1994 debut album Illmatic was critically acclaimed.
Wiz Khalifa performing in Toronto in 2012.
Lil Kim's fourth studio album The Naked Truth is the only album by a female rapper to have received five mics from The Source for its outstanding lyrical performance. Lil Kim performs at a pride parade in Los Angeles in 2022 above.
Golden age hip-hop
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Golden age hip-hop refers to hip-hop music created from roughly the late 1980s to the mid-1990s, building on the genre's advances of the mid-1980s. The golden age is characterized by its diversity, qu
Eric B. & Rakim in 1987
LL Cool J pictured in 2007. His second album Bigger and Deffer spent 11 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in the summer of 1987.
A Tribe Called Quest at a 2009 show
Marley Marl in Nottingham, England in 1999