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Baby Loves Hip-Hop Presents: The Dino-5

Old-School hip hop was characterized by the nursery-rhyme-like lyrical magic of Run-DMC’s “Peter Piper,” the education entertainment of Stetsasonic’s “A.F.R.I.C.A.” and the wild, technicolor tales of De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising. Somewhere along the way, though, hip-hop got lost. West Coast crews started glamorizing the pimp life, rapping about shootin’ guns and killin’ cops. De La Soul became jaded, and on De La Soul is Dead, mocked hip hop’s violent turn. Run-DMC’s Jam Master Jay got caught in the crossfire. Today, some feel a mainstream rapper ain’t legit ‘til he’s been shot—nine times.No matter how eloquently the...  read more