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March 10, 2021

Music:

• The Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight” Sugarhill Gang (Sugarhill Records) 1980
• Beastie Boys “Fight for Your Right” Licensed to Ill (Def Jam, Columbia) 1986
• Eric B. & Rakim “Eric B. Is President” Paid in Full (4th & B’way, Island) 1987
• Digable Planets “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (Pendulum, Elektra) 1993
• Kurtis Blow “The Breaks” Kurtis Blow (Mercury) 1980

Notes:

Patron of the pod Mike Kohli joins us to talk about old school hip-hop, also known as “the golden age” of the genre. We discuss the greats from the late ’70s to the early ’90s.

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