How devious or wonderful Producer X’s beats are can get you on your feet more quickly, but hip-hop isn’t an abstract sonic art form. Technique is a limited part of any art form, really: how well Rapper X raps is important but not central. What do people think of when they think about hip-hop? I don’t mean the technique of the music so much as its meaning. This is the second in a weekly series of six essays looking at hip-hop’s recent past, thinking about its distant past, and wondering about the possibility of a future. Photo: Maya Robinson and Photo David Corio Run DMC at Hammersmith Odeon London 13 September 1986
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