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Conscious Hip-Hop
- Genre family
- Hip-Hop
- 1980s recordings
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ORIGIN · SOUND · PEOPLE
Meet Conscious Hip-Hop
Conscious Hip-Hop is a branch of the Hip-Hop family, with its own performance and recording traditions.
The clearest way to understand Conscious Hip-Hop is to hear how its rhythm, timbre and performance language change across artists and recordings.
Begin with Public Enemy and De La Soul.
GENRE FAMILY
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Parent genreHip-Hop
Current genreConscious Hip-Hop
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1980s · North America · Conscious Hip-Hop
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ESSENTIAL LISTENING
5 recordings1980s starting recordings
01Plug Tunin’ (original 12″ version)1989 · Golden Age Hip-Hop · hip-hopOpen in new tab 02This Is a Recording 4 Living in a Fulltime Era (L.I.F.E.)1989 · Golden Age Hip-Hop · rapOpen in new tab 03Welcome to the Terrordome1989 · Conscious Hip-HopOpen in new tab 04911 Is a Joke1989 · Conscious Hip-HopOpen in new tab 05Revolutionary Generation1989 · Conscious Hip-HopOpen in new tab
KEY ARTISTS
1980s artists
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