Hip-Hop History
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Music While "Efil4Zaggin" is the less well-known of the N.W.A.'s two albums, its long-standing influence is crucial.
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Original Content After Lil Wayne's "6 Foot 7 Foot" catapulted the Young Money artist onto the global stage, we take a look at what's happened during Cory Gunz's 15-plus year career.
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Robert Blair -
Music Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones is one of the most influential writers of our time, and what better time to celebrate that than this classic's 30th birthday?
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Gabriel Bras Nevares -
Music Irv Gotti details an intimate moment he shared with Ashanti in the latest episode of "The Murder Inc. Story."
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Aron A. -
Pop Culture Waka Flocka retired from rapping back in 2020.
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Hayley Hynes -
Original Content Once the subject of widespread controversy but now a staple on the Billboard charts, we look at the history of sexually explicit bars and imagery throughout hip-hop.
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Robert Blair -
Original Content With the lines between mixtapes and albums blurrier than ever, we look at how 50 Cent revolutionized the format forever on his road to "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'."
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Robert Blair -
Original Content Bone Thugs perfected the art of gritty, gothic, gangsta rap.
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Mitch Findlay -
Hip-Hop History Spice-1 says Snoop Dogg was harassed by members of the Bloods on the set of "Training Day."
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Aron A. -
Original Content Over thirty years later, N.W.A.'s "Fuck Tha Police" resonates with a new generation, finding life as a modern-day protest anthem.
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Mitch Findlay -
Original Content Kicking off our new Original Content series "Hip-Hop's Best Verses," revisit one of rap's most explosive and detailed crime sagas, Ghostface Killah's masterful "Shakey Dog."
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Mitch Findlay -
Music From a multi-decade long beef with Diddy to becoming a minister, we're looking back on the career on rapper Mase.
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Caleb Hardy
