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Public Enemy wasn't the first hip-hop group to get political, nor the first to make the music overpowering. But nobody has ever done it better.
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Tupac Shakur delivered soliloquies on his powerful, singular, and thought-provoking albums. His legend &
legacy lives on.
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Outkast's melodic hooks, thickly complex instrumental arrangements, and good-time lyrical candor has delivered them major success.
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Brooklyn-born Shawn Carter rose from rapping and dreaming, through a string of cosmically wise collaborations, on to the top of the charts.
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Brooklyn native Notorious B.I.G. gave the gangster-rap game a reality check. While West Coast Gs were rolling down easy street, Biggie was patrolling dirty ghetto corners.
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Emerging in 1993, when Dr. Dre's G-funk had overtaken the hip-hop world, the Staten Island, NY-based Wu Tang Clan proved to be the most revolutionary rap group of the mid-'90s.
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Andre "Dr. Dre" Young staked his claim against the late '80s' emerging, politically violent hip-hop by spearheading a physically violent comeuppance.
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Nas became New York's favorite rapper in the mid-'90s and remained near the top for over a decade.
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Originally recording under the expanded pseudonym Common Sense, he's one of the more enlightened contemporary rappers.
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Between 1987 & 1992, Rakim released four influential albums with Eric B that have accorded him the status of one of rap's greatest figureheads.
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