Rap (Music).
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Andre Manuel Def Row Hip Hop documents
Collection — Manuscript box 89 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113959914]
Identifier: 8131
Dates:
1991-1992.
Phyllis Pollack papers
Collection
Identifier: 8130
Scope and content
Papers include magazine and newspaper articles, photographs, posters, photocopies and ephemera documenting Hip Hop in the 1980s and 90s. Included are FOIL copies of the FBI's files on Tupac Shakur and Eazy-E, a recording contract for an album featuring Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys, a press release for NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" video, which was banned by MTV. Other documentation focuses on the rise of gangsta rap, the censorship of rap lyrics and the controversy over the Recording...
Dates:
circa 1985-2000.