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Culture 30 min

Hip-Hop: The Most Influential Art Form of the Last 50 Years

A twenty-five dollar rec room rental birthed a culture heard by one point eight five billion people

Hip-hop was born in the South Bronx in 1973, in a neighbourhood the city had effectively abandoned. From a back-to-school party in a rec room at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, it became the dominant cultural export of the United States and the lens through which a generation worldwide understands identity, protest, and style.

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