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Standard Issue: Hip-Hop, Vol. 1

Ten essential tracks from a slice of time during hip-hop’s Golden Age.

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Bobby Digital: 25th Anniversary

A bold attempt by a hip-hop genius to bring a comic book style antihero to life on a rap album underwhelms as it hints to what could have been.

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Jay-Z and OutKast dropped historic albums that changed the game.

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A union of flavors that could have only been crafted in So Cal.

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DMX’s debut album introduced us to rap’s most complicated anti-hero.

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Kung-Fu Kenny brings his fists of fury to a dank basement in Detroit to battle Slim Shady.

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The ‘Cain Train rolls into Daytona for a showdown between yayo kingpins.

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In a battle between “rhyme sayers”, indie-hop legends Evidence and Slug go head-to-head.

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DMX was the hardest shit I had ever heard. Heavy metal hip-hop. He was a hurricane on the record. He was “a motherf***ing problem”.