Beyond the shortsighted scope of many hip-hop listeners today rests Yo! MTV Raps, which has been recently celebrated in a collaboration between Stussy and MTV. At the risk of sounding nostalgic, hip-hop music was vastly different in the 90's than it is today, not merely in terms of aesthetics, but in distribution. A burgeoning art form at the time, hip-hop was limited in the types of radio stations and TV channels that would play it. In this context, Yo! MTV Raps represented a medium between sub...
Beyond the shortsighted scope of many hip-hop listeners today rests Yo! MTV Raps, which has been recently celebrated in a collaboration between Stussy and MTV. At the risk of sounding nostalgic, hip-hop music was vastly different in the 90's than it is today, not merely in terms of aesthetics, but in distribution. A burgeoning art form at the time, hip-hop was limited in the types of radio stations and TV channels that would play it. In this context, Yo! MTV Raps represented a medium between sub...
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