Hip-hop’s Golden Age is loosely bookended by the genre’s commercial breakthrough in the late 1980s and the back-to-back deaths of 2Pac and Biggie in the late 1990s. Of course, rap fans haven’t stopped debating which years serve as hip-hop’s true apex. For some, the Golden Age commenced with Run DMC’s rise to fame in 1985 and lasted until New York, by way of Nas and Biggie, was back to being The Rap Mecca in 1994; while…
