Golden age hip hop

Golden age hip hop
Run-DMC and Beastie Boys (with DJ Hurricane) in 1987. Their albums are often considered a start to hip hop's golden era.
Stylistic origins
Cultural originsMid 1980s, New York City, Long Island
Typical instruments
Derivative forms
Local scenes
South Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Harlem, Long Island

Golden age hip hop refers to hip hop music created from the mid or mid-late 1980s[1][2][3][4] to the early or early-mid 1990s,[1][2][3][4] particularly by artists and musicians originating from the New York metropolitan area.[5] A precursor to the new-school hip hop movement, it is characterized by its diversity, quality, innovation and influence on overall hip hop after the genre's emergence and establishment in the old-school era,[6][7][8][9][10] and is associated with the development and eventual mainstream success of hip hop.[11] There were various types of subject matter, while the music was experimental and the sampling from old records was eclectic.[12]

The artists most often associated with the period are LL Cool J, Slick Rick, Ultramagnetic MC's,[13] the Jungle Brothers,[14] Run-DMC, Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, KRS-One, DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Eric B. & Rakim, De La Soul, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD, Biz Markie,[11] Salt-N-Pepa,[11] Queen Latifah,[11] Gang Starr, and A Tribe Called Quest. Releases by these acts co-existed in this period with early gangsta rap artists such as Schoolly D, Ice-T, Geto Boys, N.W.A, the sex raps of 2 Live Crew and Too Short, and party-oriented music by acts such as the Fat Boys, MC Hammer, and Vanilla Ice.[15][16]

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  6. ^ Coker, Cheo H. (March 9, 1995). "Slick Rick: Behind Bars". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on February 2, 2010. Retrieved September 16, 2014.
  7. ^ "The '80s were golden age of hip-hop – today > entertainment – Music – TODAY.com". TODAY.com. July 13, 2004. Archived from the original on December 13, 2019. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
  8. ^ Green, Tony, in Wang, Oliver (ed.) Classic Material, Toronto: ECW Press, 2003. p. 132
  9. ^ Jon Caramanica, "Hip-Hop's Raiders of the Lost Archives" Archived April 10, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, The New York Times, June 26, 2005.
    Cheo H. Coker, "Slick Rick: Behind Bars" Archived February 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Rolling Stone, March 9, 1995.
    Lonnae O'Neal Parker, "U-Md. Senior Aaron McGruder's Edgy Hip-Hop Comic Gets Raves, but No Takers", Washington Post, Aug 20 1997.
  10. ^ Jake Coyle of Associated Press, "Spin magazine picks Radiohead CD as best" Archived June 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, published in USA Today, June 19, 2005.
    Cheo H. Coker, "Slick Rick: Behind Bars" Archived February 2, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Rolling Stone, March 9, 1995.
    Andrew Drever, "Jungle Brothers still untamed" Archived June 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, The Age [Australia], October 24, 2003.
  11. ^ a b c d "In pictures: 'The golden age of hip hop'". BBC News. June 12, 2018. Archived from the original on September 17, 2019. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  12. ^ Roni Sariq, "Crazy Wisdom Masters" Archived November 23, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, City Pages, April 16, 1997.
    Scott Thill, "Whiteness Visible" Archived April 26, 2012, at the Wayback Machine AlterNet, May 6, 2005.
    Will Hodgkinson, "Adventures on the wheels of steel" Archived May 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, The Guardian, September 19, 2003.
  13. ^ Linhardt, Alex (June 10, 2004). Album Reviews: Ultramagnetic MC's: Critical Beatdown Archived March 21, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved on December 24, 2014.
  14. ^ Per Coker, Hodgkinson, Drever, Thill, O'Neal Parker and Sariq above. Additionally:
    Cheo H. Coker, "KRS-One: Krs-One" Archived January 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, Rolling Stone, November 16, 1995.
    Andrew Pettie, "'Where rap went wrong'" Archived December 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, Daily Telegraph, August 11, 2005.
    Mosi Reeves, "Easy-Chair Rap" Archived November 4, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, Village Voice, January 29th 2002.
    Greg Kot, "Hip-Hop Below the Mainstream"[dead link], Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2001.
    Cheo Hodari Coker, "'It's a Beautiful Feeling'"[permanent dead link], Los Angeles Times, August 11, 1996.
    Scott Mervis, "From Kool Herc to 50 Cent, the story of rap -- so far" Archived June 28, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 15, 2004.
  15. ^ Bakari Kitwana,"The Cotton Club" Archived February 27, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, Village Voice, June 21, 2005.
  16. ^ "'Cool as Ice': The Story Behind Vanilla Ice's Career-Killing Movie". Rolling Stone. October 18, 2016. Archived from the original on August 1, 2020. Retrieved March 6, 2020.