Hippity-hop legends
Stylus Magazine has a good article discussing the unknown legends of hip-hop. It discusses many of the people who laid the groundwork for today’s rap and analyzes scenes development. It’s a good, quick read.
In the early 1990s New York hip-hop was at a creative peak. Sure, NWA had arrived from the west, laying the groundwork for the gangsta blueprint that would set the direction for rap music future, and the Geto Boys had established themselves as notable Southern artists. But New York was still rap music mecca, with talent popping out of every borough, rappers spitting from so many different directions, producers still mastering the SP1200. A major cornerstone of NY’s creative rap movement was the Diggin in the Crates crew, known simply as D.I.T.C..
On the web: Stylus Magazine
