Tag: hip-hop

Curators Of Culture: Prevail from Swollen Members

@swollenmembers Very few can deny the 90’s yielded some of the best hip-hop trios and quartets ever. The East Coast definitely repped during the era but the West equally held it down…

THE SOURCE: HIP-HOP’S BIBLE, BLOODSTAINS & ALL

Before Complex was clickbait, before Instagram was the cover, there was The Source. Back when rap wasn’t corporate property, it was Xerox toner and ink smears. 1988: a Harvard dorm room, David…

De La Soul: Painted Daisies in the Rough

In an era when rap was barbed wire and bravado — when hard edges were the soundtrack of survival — a trio from Long Island stepped into the light and refused to…

Fat Joe And Jadakiss Go Sneaker Shopping With Complex

  The stars of the “Joe and Jada Podcast,” Fat Joe and Jadakiss, go Sneaker Shopping with Complex’s Joe La Puma at Flight Club in New York City and tell stories about…