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The 10 Best Hip-Hop Tracks of 1991
1991's best hip-hop songs lean more towards beats production than the era's increasingly popular gangsta rap genre.
25 Jun 2020
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The Musical Atmosphere in BigYuki's 'Reaching for Chiron'
The jazz/hip-hop/electronica of keyboardist BigYuki—featured on the last Tribe Called Quest album—is a true hybrid that, surprisingly, contains more Louis Armstrong that you might think.
23 Feb 2018
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Culture and History for the Age of Trump
History doesn't always tell us how to get it right. It sometimes warns us of the cost of getting it wrong. Art steeped in that history, like John Lewis' graphic novel trilogy, March, can remind us, if we're paying attention.
05 Jan 2017
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Brotherhood of the Traveling Parachute Pants
Like lattés, Baby Bjørns, and bicycles, we bookish white boys love hip-hop. What one nerdy white boy from Wyoming learned from hip-hop.
Chris Kjorness
01 Apr 2012
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The Quest to Understand Tribe
This is supposed to be a documentary, not a fan letter. So how about some balance? It's big picture time when it comes to telling the story of hip-hop.
03 Nov 2011
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Beats, Rhymes, & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest
It's the sort of drama that Tribe fans know too well. If the group mattered so much once, it is also, now, as legendary for its breakups as for its work.
11 Jul 2011
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Tribeca Film Festival 2011: 'Beats, Rhymes & Life' and 'Let the Bullets Fly'
At Tribeca, Michael Rapaport’s phenomenal A Tribe Called Quest documentary gets a rousing reception and the new Chow Yun-Fat action flick baffles as much as it thrills.
28 Apr 2011
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Hip-Hop Storytellers: The Vignette
"That story is over, but my rhyme ain't done." Vignettes are important tools in hip-hop's rich and plentiful storytelling tradition.
21 Jul 2010
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These Are the Breaks: The Motown Sound's Influence on Hip-Hop Sampling
For any influential group in the hip-hop game, specifically in the early 1990s, Motown's stamp of approval and its variety of subsidiaries were undeniably influential.
27 Jan 2009
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We Don't Die, We Multiply: Hip-Hop Groups
Group identification creates interesting scenarios within hip-hop culture, from the formation and maintenance of group identity to the difficulties of promoting the lyrical skills of a group's various members.
19 Aug 2008
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