Mucchio Classic Rock #12 - Hip Hop Old Skool (1981-1991)

Walk this way, will you?

What:
Twelfth music history lesson, courtesy of italian magazine Il Mucchio and its old Classic Rock special features (published in Italy in the 1990s). After Punk, New Wave, Dark/Gothic, Hard Rock, Psychedelia, Power Pop, Canterbury, Reggae, Krautrock, White Man's Blues and Hardcore-Punk, this time we turn off the guitars and go studyin' at the Old Skool of Hip Hop. Enjoy!

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The Playlist

(16 albums out of 20, 80%)

10 Pivotal Albums
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Greatest Messages (Sugarhill, 1983)
LL Cool J - Radio (Def Jam, 1985)
Run DMC - Raising Hell (Profile, 1986)
Beastie Boys - Licensed To Ill (Def Jam, 1986)
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show (Def Jam, 1987)
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full (4th & Broadway, 1987)
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton (Ruthless, 1988)
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising (Tommy Boy, 1989)
A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (Jive, 1990)
Gang Starr - Step in the Arena (Chrysalis, 1991)

10 Albums More
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock/The Album (Tommy Boy, 1986)
Boogie Down Productions - By All Means Necessary (Jive, 1988)
Cypress Hill - Cypress Hill (Columbia, 1991)
Jungle Brothers - Done By The Forces of Nature (WB, 1989)
Leaders of the New School - A Future Without A Past (Elektra, 1991)
Queen Latifah - All Hail The Queen (Tommy Boy, 1989)
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures Of (Def Jam, 1988)
Stetsasonic - In Full Gear (Tommy Boy, 1988)
3rd Bass - The Catus Album (Def Jam, 1989)
Tone Loce - Loc-ed After Dark (Delicious Vinyl, 1989)

Listen to it on Spotify:

Mammoth (full albums): HTTP Link, URI. (SR0543)

Lite (3 songs each "pivotal" album, 2 songs each "more" album): HTTP Link, URI. (SR0544)

Mucchio Classic Rock - Top 20 Albums series:

1. Punk '77

2. New Wave
3. Dark 1980-1985
4. Hard Rock 1968-1975
5. Psychedelia (1965-xxxx)
6. Power-Pop
7. Canterbury scene
8. Reggae 1968-1981
9. Krautrock
10. White Man's Blues
11. Hardcore-Punk USA (1980-1983)

12. Hip Hop Old Skool (1981-1991)