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
Paid in Full (album)
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Paid in Full is the debut studio album by American hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim, released on July 7, 1987, by Island-subsidiary label 4th & B'way Records. The duo recorded the album at hip-hop producer
