Hip-hop And You Do Stop is a series chronicling A.V. Club writer Nathan Rabin’s deep love for (and growing estrangement from) hip-hop through the filter of golden age and ’90s hip-hop. Each entry documents a year in the genre’s development, beginning with 1988 and concluding with 2000.
Memory can be an imprecise instrument. We have a tendency to recall not how things happened so much as how it felt they happened. In my mind, I bought a cassette tape of DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince’s He’s The DJ, I’m The Rapper in 1988 when I was 11 and lived in the comfortably middle-class suburb of Shorewood, Wisconsin with my government bureaucrat father and graphic-designer stepmother. It’s just as possible I got the album a few years later when I was 12 or even 13 and living with my single-parent father on the ...
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