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Hip hop's "golden age" is a name given to a period in mainstream hip hop —usually cited as late 1980s—said to be characterized by its diversity, quality, innovation and influence.[ 1] [ 2] Afrocentricity and political militancy, while the music was experimental and the sampling was eclectic.[ 3] Public Enemy , KRS-One and his Boogie Down Productions , Eric B. & Rakim , De La Soul , A Tribe Called Quest , and the Jungle Brothers .[ 4] gangsta rap artists Schoolly D and N.W.A , the sex raps of 2 Live Crew , and party-oriented music by acts such as Kid 'n Play , Heavy D , and DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince .[ 5]
Some writers, such as Tony Green, have referenced the two year period 1993–1994 as "a second Golden Age" that saw influential, high quality albums using elements of past classicism—E-mu SP-1200 drum sounds, turntable scratches, references to old school hip hop hits, and "tongue-twisting triplet verbalisms"—while making clear that new directions were being taken. Green lists Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Illmatic Buhloone Mindstate Doggystyle Midnight Marauders Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik [ 6]
References
^ Jon Caramanica, "Hip-Hop's Raiders of the Lost Archives" , New York Times , June 26 2005. "Slick Rick: Behind Bars" , Rolling Stone , March 9 1995. "U-Md. Senior Aaron McGruder's Edgy Hip-Hop Comic Gets Raves, but No Takers" , Washington Post , Aug 20 1997.
^ Jake Coyle of Associated Press, "Spin magazine picks Radiohead CD as best" , published in USA Today , June 19 2005. "Slick Rick: Behind Bars" , Rolling Stone , March 9 1995. "Jungle Brothers still untamed" , The Age [Australia], October 24 2003.
^ Roni Sariq, "Crazy Wisdom Masters" , City Pages , April 16 1997. "Whiteness Visible" AlterNet, May 6 2005. "Adventures on the wheels of steel" , The Guardian , September 19 2003.
^ Per Coker, Hodgkinson, Drever, Thill, O'Neal Parker and Sariq above. Additionally: "KRS-One: Krs-One" , Rolling Stone , November 16, 1995. "'Where rap went wrong'" , Daily Telegraph , August 11 2005. "Easy-Chair Rap" , Village Voice , January 29th 2002. "Hip-Hop Below the Mainstream" , Los Angeles Times, September 19 2001. "'It's a Beautiful Feeling'" , Los Angeles Times , August 11 1996. "From Kool Herc to 50 Cent, the story of rap -- so far" , Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , February 15 2004.
^ Bakari Kitwana,"The Cotton Club" , Village Voice , June 21 2005.
^ Green, Tony, in Wang, Oliver (ed.) Classic Material , Toronto: ECW Press, 2003. (p. 132)
