1991: Snoop Dogg got his start the way so many hip-hop stars did before the internet became the main mode of music discovery: on a tape. Snoop was featured on a cassette that somehow made its way into the hands of Dr. Dre, who was at the time presiding over a record label called...
There are many ways to look at 1994: lists of great albums (here’sa top 50 to get you started); a look back at whatfansandtastemakerswereactuallylistening to at the time; thebest overlooked obscurities. But the best way to really understand why a single 365 three decades ago had such ...
TM:I think after this album right here, people will be like “It’s ok to do that kind of shit [jazz and hip-hop] on an album.” People used to say that there’s too much music or the sax is too soft or there’s too many chords — a lot of people used to sa...
at least for me. It also gave me a taste of what touring was really like. I met some cool kids too. I brought tons of mixtapes that I had planned to sell, but I ended up giving most of them away, cuz so many of these kids were so clearly starving for hip hop I felt...