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Golden Age Hip-Hop

Genre family
Hip-Hop
1980s recordings
18
ORIGIN · SOUND · PEOPLE

Meet Golden Age Hip-Hop

Golden Age Hip-Hop is a branch of the Hip-Hop family, with its own performance and recording traditions.

The clearest way to understand Golden Age 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.

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1980s · North America · Golden Age Hip-Hop

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1980s starting recordings

10 recordings
KEY ARTISTS

1980s artists

ESSENTIAL ALBUMS

1980s albums

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