re: What Is The Best Golden Age of Hip Hop Song

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It's Wikipedia's definition. I don't agree with it as a whole, but at least it puts some parameters on the "golden age".

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Allmusic writes, “Hip-hop's golden age is bookended by the commercial breakthrough of Run–D.M.C. in 1986 and the explosion of gangsta rap with NWA in the late 80s and Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg in 1993

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MSNBC states, “the “Golden Age” of hip-hop music: "The ’80s”.

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In the book Contemporary Youth Culture, the "golden age era" is described as being "from 1987–1999", coming after "the old school era: from 1979 to 1985"

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the golden age of hip hop is described by scholar Mickey Hess as "circa 1986-1994

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Ed Simmons of The Chemical Brothers says, “there was that golden age of hip-hop in the early 90s when the Jungle Brothers made Straight Out the Jungle and De La Soul made Three Feet High and Rising”[21] (though these records were in fact made in 1988 and 1989 respectively).

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