NOT SELLING OUT, THAT’S A NEGATIVE

Question from Damien: “I was wondering today…who introduced the RnB/Soul side to the hip hop? The one we can hear in Mos Def’s or The Pharcyde’s tracks? Was there any tension about this at the time, some kind of opposition between the aggressive tone of some early 90′s releases and the smoothness of some others?” Answer: There’s two separate questions here so let me tackle the first. First, it’s a bit odd to try to talk about how R&B was “introduced” into hip-hop insofar as ...

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