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Kevin Powell, author and currator of "Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes & Rage" In my opinion, the five most important songs in hip-hop history...
...Hollywood, still fearful of actual musicals, is coming up with new ways to relabel them. Q-Tip is working on a hip-hop musical called "Prison Song." But Tinseltown can't hide the truth. "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut," was a musical. Sorry to burst your bubble...
...Hip-hop is older than Eminem - Afrika Bambaata was already a turntable legend when Slim Shady was just a glimmer in his dysfunctional family's eyes. In its time, hip-hop's gone from Hollis to Hollywood to the halls of museums. Now it's time to wade through the enormous creative output of the last two decades to separate the wheat from the chaff, the hits from the misses, the heroes from the (MC) Hammers. Is Rakim the microphone god before whom we all must bow down? Is KRS-One still number one? Was Vanilla Ice an unappreciated genius...
Christopher John Farley, TIME magazine The Best Hip-Hop Songs of All Time (four mixes...
...artists - and the audience -came of age in the baby boomer generation's halcyon years - the '60s and '70s. Even the show's younger performers, such as Lenny Kravitz and Sheryl Crow, are aligned musically with the traditions of that era rather than the current trends of dance, hip-hop and lite...