Being the overwhelmed rap fan that I am, one of my favorite pastimes is to simply relax and listen to all the rap songs from my childhood, the ones that made me fall in love with the genre. Whether it ...

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Back when hip-hop was seeping out of New York City and becoming the soundtrack of urban American, red states preferred the rootsy melodies of country music. In those years, the idea of combining the ...