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Hiphop Nation: What It Is

A mystery decoded, a legal field just begun. What is the common bond between Grand Wizard Theodore, Blastmaster, KRSOne, and Stanley Platzer? An historical critical megamix.

by John Leland and Steve Stein

Originally published January 19, 1988
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1984 Pazz & Jop: The Rise of the Corporate Single

by Robert Christgau

January 10, 2019
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1983 Pazz & Jop: Who Else? A Goddamn Critics’ Band, That’s Who Else

by Robert Christgau

January 9, 2019
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1982 Pazz & Jop: Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome

by Robert Christgau

January 8, 2019
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TRIPPING OUT

by Nick Murray

January 1, 2014
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ALL-ABOARD

by Nick Murray

August 21, 2013
Media

Finding Hip-Hop’s Beginning in Afrika Bambaataa’s 40,000-Deep Record Collection

by Brett Koshkin

July 17, 2013
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BASS SHOP PRO

by Nick Murray

May 15, 2013
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Spring Arts Guide Picks: Music

by Seth Colter Walls

March 27, 2013
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“Old-School Three Times Over”: Meet Afrika Bambaataa, Cornell Professor

by Michael Alan Goldberg

November 8, 2012