not only put gangsta rap on the map, but they created a record that would transcend genre and define an entire generation of kids. In 1988, eleven years on from the incendiary explosion of punk rock, N.W.A, a group of rappers and producers led by Easy-E and including Dr Dre, Ice Cube and MC Ren, produced the most vitriolic response to an album in living memory. Three Jewish punk rockers from New York wound up being three of the biggest rap stars in the world. ‘(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)’ was an MTV staple, while ‘No Sleep ’til Brooklyn’ and ‘She’s Crafty’ could be heard in frat houses all across America. They knew that they couldn’t compete with the gravitas or grit of their contemporaries, so they went for ridiculousness instead.ĭespite turning hip hop into a joke just as it was getting major critical respect, The Beastie Boys wound up making songs so infectiously fun that they were embraced along with their more serious contemporaries. Songs often took place in school or on the streets of New York because these were teenagers singing songs for teenagers. The three white boys, none of whom were of legal drinking age at the time, took turns making references to Budweiser, woolers, and porno mags in their exaggerated nasally flow behind Led Zeppelin samples. Instead, Mike D, MCA, and King Ad-Rock, along with producer Rick Rubin, made what essentially turned out to be the first parody rap album. Buoyed by the densely layered production of The Bomb Squad, the group’s second record would shape hip hop for decades to come. A group that was brought up on punk rock and defined by their refusal to conform, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is arguably their crowning moment. It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back – Public Enemyįew artists are as capable of delivering a sonic Hadouken to the temple as Public Enemy were in the 1980s. However, what we do have is pure fire.īelow, we’re picking out our five favourite hip hop albums from the 1980s Five best hip hop albums of the 1980s 5. Run-DMC’s self-titled LP also falls short, Kool Moe Dee, Slick Rick and Big Daddy Kane are also among the names left off our exclusive list. That means big-hitting records like LL Cool J‘s Radio and De La Soul’s Three Feet High have fallen by the wayside. It makes picking out only five of the best albums of the decade a supremely difficult challenge.
From it, vines of subgenres have sprung and found their own lanes, meaning that almost everything you hear on the radio today can be traced back to one of the culture’s most fruitful periods. From there on, music would be unfathomably connected to this period.
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