Rap Is Having Another Pop Moment

"Rap is not pop/ If you call it that, then stop." When Q-Tip spoke those words on "Check The Rhime," the most enduring single from A Tribe Called Quest's 1991 opus The Low End Theory, he had aesthetics in mind, not numbers. Tip was dismissing MC Hammer, who'd achieved massive crossover success by steering hip-hop…

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