The BET Hip-Hop Awards are still the rap game’s glitziest affair -- a highlight of the early fall, and an overall chance for hip-hop culture to flash and floss. At this year's awards, which took place on Tuesday , “Queen Bee” Lil Kim was the recipient of the “I AM HIP-HOP” Award, an honor given to some of the genre’s most accomplished legends.
It’s been 40 years since “Rapper’s Delight” announced hip-hop’s transition from Bronx block parties to the pop charts. Even the most casual rap fan can give you the cliff’s notes version of why that single is important, but so much hip-hop from those early days has been left to languish in obscurity. Even “Rapper’s Delight” was the culmination of almost a decade of hip-hop gestation as a live artform performed at uptown block parties and eventually downtown nightclubs.
As vague a distinction as it may be, “classic hip-hop” is fitting because hip-hop’s “classic” period is just as extended and diverse as classic rock’s or classic soul’s. Recognize hip-hop’s first wave with the same reverence given to 50s rockers; and acknowledge the original “new school” or “Golden Age” as the first half of its classic period -- à la classic rock circa 1966 through 1973.
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