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How the Bay Area became a rap incubator with a chip on its shoulder

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Hip-Hop 50: All Rap Is Local

How the Bay Area became a rap incubator with a chip on its shoulder

August 9, 2023 • Though the Bay's vibrant rap community lit the fuse on many of the stars, styles and innovations that have blown up across the map, the region might still be best known for being underestimated.

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NPR Music's 35 Favorite Songs Of 2018 (So Far)

June 25, 2018 • Writers from across the public radio map pick the best songs they've heard this year.

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Can Hip-Hop Handle 'I'm Gay?'

April 26, 2011 • The decision of the avowedly heterosexual rapper Lil B to name his new album I'm Gay has us thinking about the history of the intersection between gay culture and hip-hop.

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Lil B: Understanding Rap's New Rebel

January 27, 2011 • Hip-hop's most eccentric, prolific, endearing and divisive new voice is a 21 year-old Internet star.