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Complex is proud to present the Best Rapper Alive, Every Year Since 1979, a comprehensive look back at every year of rap and which MC moved the crowd the most.

This article originally appeared in the August 1993 issue of SPIN. The music is my life. Is New York, New York, really the birthplace of hip hop? Is this ultimate city—the preferred setting for most modern-day film fables —the place where the seed took hold? Where the rhymes first flowed and a culture took form? … Our 1993 Hip-Hop Culture Feature: Dreaming America Read More » The post Our 1993 Hip-Hop Culture Feature: Dreaming America appeared first on SPIN.

KRS-One and his DJ, the late Scott LaRock, rose to fame in the mid-'80s as Boogie Down Productions.

Gangsta rap, form of hip-hop music that became the genre’s dominant style in the 1990s, a reflection and product of the often violent lifestyle of American inner cities afflicted with poverty and the dangers of drug use and drug dealing. The romanticization of the outlaw at the centre of much of