Tag: rap

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…