Indeed, journalists Nelson George and Greg Tate were singular figures in the 1980s, as well as British journalist David Toop, whose Rap Attack ... copies of Black Noise. Trained in American ...

Some believe that the 1990s was the golden era of rap music. Though the genre was created in the late 1970s in the parks of New York City and later honed in the 1980s thanks to groups like Run-DMC and ...