Hip-Hop History
What Happened to the Hip-Hop Soundtrack?
There was a time the soundtrack was the event. Five classics show exactly what we lost, and why it wasn't really the soundtrack that disappeared.
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On The Record
The Hip-Hop Conversations
History, context, and commentary for the conversations that deserve more than a hot take.
Hip-Hop Business
Salt-N-Pepa Can't Reclaim Their Masters. The Court Says They May Never Have Owned Them.
They sold millions of records and made songs that still pay almost 40 years later. But when Salt-N-Pepa tried to take their masters back, they ran into a bigger problem.
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Hip-Hop Business
How Master P Changed the Music Business Forever
He turned down a million dollars, kept his masters, and made a major distributor work for him. But the real lesson of the No Limit deal isn't the split.
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Album Breakdown
The Genius Behind Liquid Swords
No skips. No filler. Just the coldest record RZA ever built and a pen sharp enough to cut through it. Here's why Liquid Swords still matters.
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Where Are They Now?
Canibus: The Complicated Legacy of a Lyricist's Lyricist
He out-rapped legends on their own records, won the pen battle with LL Cool J, and still lost the war. Here's what really happened to Canibus.
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Hip-Hop Story
Tom Hardy Was Rapping Before He Was Tom Hardy
The worst-kept secret in Hip-Hop, the Tommy No. 1 tapes, and how Bane ended up on a Czarface album.
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