These are the 10 finest hip-hop releases of the year. The first album in five years for the ... and the mix of eclectic old school beats, swerving rhythms and gorgeous experimental passages ...

was selling CDs of his album. “I prefer old-school hip-hop,” Hetep said. “I like Rakim because of his flow and the clean message he was putting into the world. He rapped about positivity ...

You’re probably right, because hip-hop music is built on sampling, the process of using existing recorded music to create a sound collage of ... s how authentic, old-school sampling works.

Maybe I’m just old, and soon-to-be ... I was late to “Illmatic.” When the album was released in April 1994, I was a freshman in high school and my New York hip-hop listening was pretty ...