VH-1 Honors Hip Hop:

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Originally Posted by mulattogyrl

This list is interesting because most of these people came from the 'Golden Era' of hip hop. We could argue that this era changed the game, period. There were so many artists at that time that brought something new to the rap game - the whole De La/ATCQ/Jungle Brothers movement, the whole consciousness movement with X-Clan, Poor Righteous Teachers, Lakim Shabazz, etc. I think that era as a whole changed the rap game. Can you tell I'm just a little bit into my old school? lol

Props to you for recognizing the different eras of hip hop. I loooooved X-Clan, PRT, and Lakim ("I'm pure righteousness...righteous and pure..."). Lakim was basically a yellow version of Rakim. They were both talking about 5% but Rakim disguised it a little more with battle rhyme hype.

<---if it isn't old school hip hop or SOUND like old school, it isn't hip hop.