{"id":6926,"date":"2013-02-20T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T15:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desihiphop.com\/?p=6926"},"modified":"2013-11-06T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T19:01:17","slug":"top-10-albums-golden-age-hiphop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/top-10-albums-golden-age-hiphop\/190748","title":{"rendered":"Golden Age of HipHop in South Asia? A Look Back at the Top 10 HipHop Albums of the 80’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The best part about uncharted territory is that you always discover something new. That’s how it was for HipHop in the Golden Age, undoubtedly in the 80’s and early 90’s when diversity, ingenuity, quality and it’s influence were at the highest levels. Every artist had original content, unique flow and were going through a period of self discovery with strong Afrocentric and political influences. Writer William Jelani Cobb says<\/p>\n

What made the era they inaugurated worthy of the term golden was the sheer number of stylistic innovations that came into existence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rolling Stone said that the \u201880\u2019s was a time \u201cwhen it seemed that every new single reinvented the genre.\u201d Some of the greatest advances in rapping techniques were made by the likes of Big Daddy Kane, KRS-One, Rakim, Chuck-D. Artists like Run D.M.C., NWA and Public Enemy with strong black nationalistic messages representing current affairs i.e. Fight The Power<\/a>. The 80’s were a time when HipHop was a platform that helped uplift the community, gave the people a voice and a chance for real freedom. Rappers had an individual sound that was dictated by their region and their communities, not by a marketing strategist.<\/p>\n

HipHop has definitely evolved over the years, not just around the nation but around the globe. The youth of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh), often referred to as “Desi<\/a>” meaning “one who is proud to be from their motherland”, have only recently began their journey of self discovery through HipHop. See what KRS-One has to say about HipHop, Spirituality and The Bhagavad Gita<\/a> and Deepak Chopra on HipHop Yoga<\/a>. South Asia, HipHop and Spirituality share many deep rooted parallels that have yet to be discovered – from the sound and structure of the scriptures to the messaging of universal equality. With South Asian (Desi) rappers like Machas With Attitude<\/a> and Mappila Lahala and Street Academics<\/a> in India, The Rap Engineers<\/a> in Pakistan and Mandeep Sethi<\/a> in the US and beyond – we have faith that there is a silver lining for HipHop and that the real Golden Age is only just beginning!<\/p>\n

So let\u2019s go back in time and see what the \u201880\u2019s were all about. We\u2019re going to take a look at what the top 10 albums of the \u201880\u2019s were according to Rhapsody.com.<\/p>\n

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\"dmc\"#9. Run D.M.C. \u2013 Raising Hell<\/a><\/h1>\n

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\"biz\"#8. Biz Markie \u2013 Goin\u2019 Off<\/a><\/h1>\n

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\"doc\"#7. The D.O.C. \u2013 No One Can Do it Better<\/h1>\n

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#5. Afrika Bambaataa \u2013 Death Mix Live<\/a><\/h1>\n

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#4. Ultramagnetic MC\u2019s – Critical Breakdown<\/h1>\n

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#3. LL Cool J \u2013 Radio<\/a><\/h1>\n

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#2. Kool Moe Dee \u2013 How You Like Me Now \"kool\"<\/h1>\n

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#1. Beastie Boys – Paul\u2019s Boutique<\/a><\/h1>\n

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    The best part about uncharted territory is that you always discover something new. That’s how it was for HipHop in the Golden Age, undoubtedly in the 80’s and early 90’s when diversity, ingenuity, quality and it’s influence were…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":7182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[6697],"class_list":["post-6926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-ll-cool-j"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcsoftwaresolution.com\/desihiphop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}