Drum-machine fanatics took after forward-thinking auteurs like Prince and Miles Davis,
When hip-hop culture started to spread in the 1980s, it changed the city in more ways than one.
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Kool G Rap, referring to the golden age in the book How to Rap said, "that era bred rappers like a Big Daddy Kane, a KRS-One, a Rakim, a Chuck D... their rapping capability and ability β these dudes were phenomenal".
Vintage photo of Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew in track suits.
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*From the January 17, 1994 issue of New York Magazine.
prior as a member of Doug E Fresh's Get Fresh Crew, performing raps on the