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Jay-Z and Big L Deliver Epic Freestyle in 1995 – Today in Hip-Hop

[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:Feb. 23, 1995: The way Bobbito Garcia remembers it, "Jay-Z was a cocky bastard" when he came swaggering into the WKCR studios on the night of Feb. 23, 1995 to freestyle on The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show.At the time, Hov was a newcomer and though Big L was on the rise in New York, it would still be another month before he dropped his official debut album, Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous, on Columbia Records. Together, they entered Stretch and Bob's domain, and though they hadn't planned for it, Jay-Z and Big L ended up recording their two freestyles together, clocking in at nearly...

The Current Status of Every Murdered Rapper’s Case

[ad_1] It was on a late August night in New York City in 1987 when hip-hop may have first lost its innocence. Almost 14 years to the day after DJ Kool Herc spun the genre into existence with his first-ever block party in the Bronx, Scott La Rock of Boogie Down Productions was shot in the head and neck in the same borough, later dying of his wounds at Misericordia Hospital. He was 25 years old.La Rock's murder was the first, but certainly not the last, hip-hop slaying that has gone unsolved by the police. For a genre of music that is no stranger to discussing the realities of the struggles in the inner cities, hip-hop artists have fallen...