Originating in the Bronx in the 1970s, the genre that would later become a global phenomenon grew substantially in the ’80s and, by the time the ’90s rolled around, had fully matured both artistically and commercially. When you think about hip hop in that decade, two names hover above the rest: 2Pac (“California Love”) and The Notorious B.I.G. If you’ll recall, though, the ’90s was also a period i
n which hip hop expanded from being purely a coastal phenomenon. THE FRESH PRICE is celebrating hip hop’s “golden era” with our long-running series, The Greatest Hip Hop Songs of the ’90s, and the full list starts here in CHESHiRE CAT CLUB
