{"id":37888,"date":"2014-04-23T19:33:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T19:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siccness.net\/?p=37888"},"modified":"2014-04-23T19:33:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T19:33:44","slug":"the-90-best-rap-albums-of-the-90s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/the-90-best-rap-albums-of-the-90s","title":{"rendered":"The 90 Best Rap Albums of the &#8217;90s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>n the 1990s, hip-hop truly exploded. Regional scenes from around the country blew up in unprecedented ways, helping rap to become one of the most\u00a0<span>dominant musical genres\u00a0<\/span><span>in the world.\u00a0<\/span>Major corporations invested in labels that started on the street, while regional indies wielded enough power to drop game-changing records. It was an era of transformation that created an incredible variety of styles and sounds. Along the way, some of the greatest rap albums of all time were released: <em>The Low End Theory<\/em>. <em>Life After Death<\/em>. <em>36 Chambers<\/em>. <em>The Chronic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>All rap fans know these\u00a0classics, but they\u2019re only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to &#8217;90s hip-hop. There was so much great music being made in so many different places and spaces that it&#8217;s far too easy for great things to get overlooked. At the time, your musical menu most likely depended on what part of the country you lived in.\u00a0But with the benefit of hindsight, and the Internet, it&#8217;s now possible to survey the cream of the crop and make informed decisions about which records are good, better, and best.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/2014\/04\/the-90-best-rap-albums-of-the-90s\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/2014\/04\/the-90-best-rap-albums-of-the-90s\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>n the 1990s, hip-hop truly exploded. Regional scenes from around the country blew up in unprecedented ways, helping rap to become one of the most\u00a0dominant musical genres\u00a0in the world.\u00a0Major corporations invested in labels that started on the street, while regional indies wielded enough power to drop game-changing records. It was an era of transformation that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}