“What’s your favorite hip-hop song?” A fair enough question from my hip-hop rhetoric professor, it was simple but loaded; any answer likely met with a heaping portion of judgment. Most students in the ...

1988: The Jungle Brothers' debut album, Straight Out the Jungle, was the introduction to conscious New York lyricists Mike Gee, Sammy B and Afrika Baby Bam. The project also serves as the introduction ...

For many, hip-hop’s heyday was the so-called golden era of the late 80s to early 90s. The likes of Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, NWA, Eric B and Rakim, Jungle Brothers, BDP, De La Soul, Redman ...