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Where It Started At

  1. where it started at
    The Timeless Honesty of Wild Style, the First Hip-Hop MovieCharlie Ahearn and Fab 5 Freddy’s documentary-like film became an international cult favorite in the early 1980s. It’s just as fresh today.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  2. where it started at
    Your Guide to New York Rap’s Next GenerationThere is far from a dearth of emerging talent across the five boroughs — and it’s not just concentrated in drill.
    By Shamira Ibrahim
  3. where it started at
    Tekashi 6ix9ine Is an Unworthy New York Rap VillainNo other era could produce this character. No other era would stomach him.
    By Craig Jenkins
  4. where it started at
    The ‘Milly Rock’ Remains New York Rap Dance RoyaltyNeighborhood-specific dances make up the fabric of New York hip-hop. Brooklyn was due for a move of its own.
    By Eric Diep
  5. where it started at
    Jadakiss, Styles P, and Sheek Louch on the Undisputed Legacy of the LOX“We don’t got nothing to prove. We got our stamp of approval on the Mount Rushmore of rap.”
    By Jesse Fairfax
  6. where it started at
    New York Rap Never ‘Fell Off’ — It Was Snuffed OutTwenty years of pressure from two Republican mayors with lofty dreams of stamping out crime had a demonstrable effect on the culture.
    By Craig Jenkins
  7. where it started at
    Griselda Records Is Just Getting StartedConway the Machine on From King to a GOD and how he, Westside Gunn, and Benny the Butcher put upstate New York rap on the map.
    By D.L. Chandler
  8. where it started at
    The Story of New York Rap Can’t Be Told Without New Jersey“Sugar Hill Records is the reason why you still have hip-hop today.”
    By Starr Rhett Rocque
  9. oral history
    An Oral History of the Very First Episode of Yo! MTV RapsOn August 6, 1988, MTV finally, officially, embraced a genre that was born in New York.
    By Jen Chaney
  10. where it started at
    15 Crews That Defined New York RapDating back to the genesis of rap culture.
    By Preezy Brown
  11. where it started at
    Before Pun Went Platinum: The Unsung History of New York Latinx RapThe real story of hip-hop begins years before the landmark event that birthed it.
    By Gary Suarez
  12. where it started at
    The 100 Songs That Define New York Rap, RankedIt’s not a sound, it’s an attitude.
    By William E. Ketchum III, Craig Jenkins, and Dee Lockett