Hip-hop

Last week, Gotty™ did a post that featured a picture of Mos Def, Big Pun, Cannibus, DMX, and John Forté. It sent me reeling. I remembered when I first saw that picture and remembered the anticipation in seeing these focused emcees on the brink of their ascension paused in this moment. I then began thinking of the early songs they and others have produced. Hip-hop culture has a way of always talking about the past glories, but it goes largely unheard on radio stations today. Whereas many station are devoted to entire decades of music, outside of XM-styled radio, hip-hop is almost always about what is current. These songs I post are dedicated to the past. It is early material catching these emcees before they “made it.”