Tim Jonze's On Shuffle: Rap

Tim Jonze spins the carousel of pop and lands on NYC's rejuvenated rap sceneIt's over four decades since the Last Poets rapped about the rotten core of "New York, New York, the Big Apple". Since then New York's hip-hop scene has undergone more makeovers than a series of Snog, Marry, Avoid. Its creative peak is disputed (the late-80s? the mid-90s?) but its commercial one unarguably arrived with Jay-Z and 50 Cent in the early noughties. Maybe after that it felt it had nowhere to go, but today the ...

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