1988

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• Hip-Hop

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Back in 2005, the Ohio MC Blueprint looked to 1988 as an anchor point for hip-hop culture—sampling key breaks, beats, and rhymes over the course of a boast-heavy, post-millennial rap record. "Fresh for '88, you suckas,” he declares on the album’s intro, directly quoting KRS-One; on “Boombox,” he distorts a key sequence from Spike Lee’s <i>Do the Right Thing</i> and Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” for his own tribute to the iconic portable music player. Blueprint harnessed the toughness, competitiveness, and wit of late-’80s rap to fuel his angsty critiques of modern hip-hop.

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