Music: Hip-hop & Rap

Hey everyone!

Our last music blog will be about 90’s hip-hop and rap. Hip-hop became popular in the 80’s and grew bigger and bigger in the 90’s, this period of time was called the golden age of hip hop. Some strong themes in hip hop were Afrocentricity and political militancy. Some of the more know hip hop artist of the 90’s are Run DMC and A Tribe Called Quest. Hip hop was popular in that decade because everything was being discovered, so therefore everything was still innovative and new. Even though there was an emphasis on Black Nationalist rap, there were still some very well-known white hip-hop artists, like Eminem and Vanilla Ice and his Ice Ice Baby…

Hip hop became the best-selling music genre of the mid 90’s with selling millions of records of artist such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg (These days without the Doggy) and Wu-Tang Clan. Some of the more famous female hip hop and rap artist of the nineties are Lauryn Hill (who was nominated for 10 Grammy’s for her album “The Miseducation” and won 5 of them), Missy Elliot and Queen Latifah.

The mid nineties were marked by the deaths of the West-Coast rapper 2pac and the East-Coast rapper The Notorious B.I.G., which conspiracy theorists claim were killed as a result of the East Coast – West Coast hip hop rivalry.

 

90's Trends 90's Trends 90's Trends 90's Trends 90's Trends 90's Trends 90's Trends 90's Trends 90's Trends 90's Trends 90's Trends 90's

This was all on hip hop and rap, and it also marks the ending of our music topic.

To close this week’s topic we have found a site where can enter a certain date (Birthday or Anniversary etc.) and it will generate which song was at the top of the charts that day, and each year forward. Click Here

Next week our topic will be 90’s electronics!