In 1992 Arrested Development looked like the future of hip-hop, but the future had other plans

Music: Hip-Hop And You Do Stop: In 1992 Arrested Development looked like the future of hip-hop, but the future had other plans


Hip-Hop And You Do Stop is a series chronicling 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.

1992 witnessed the release of a number of landmark albums. It was the year of Dr. Dre’s The Chronic but also of Beastie Boys’ Check Your Head, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth’s Mecca And The Soul Brother, The Pharcyde’s Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde, Gang Starr’s Daily Operation, Eric B. & Rakim’s Don’t Sweat The Technique, Redman’s Whut? Thee Album, Ice Cube’s The Predator, and Common’s Can I Borrow A Dollar? That’s a whole lot of awesomeness for any single year, and that’s just in hip-hop.
So what incontrovertible masterpiece topped the prestigious Village Voice ...

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