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Originally Posted by Frownland
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You're the stupid one if you're trusting wikipedia.
Quote that article: It is said to be characterized by its diversity, quality, innovation and influence."
So, it's known for how many different kinds of hip hop artists pioneered an age/era rather than a genre? The only things connecting them seem to be sampling and talking about militant control. But then again, this is Wikipedia. You practically chose the worst kind of website for determinng genres. I thought you were smarter than to trust Wikipedia.
"due to their themes of Afrocentricity and political militancy, their experimental music, and their eclectic sampling."
These are themes common in hip hop of the modern era as well as the 90'. Not to mention, the experimental music clearly denotes that they experiented with various sounds. And from the acts listed, not all of them fall under "experimental hip hop."
Not counting things like east coast hip hop, let's take a look at these.
LL Cool J: Hardcore Hip Hop. Pop Rap.
Run DMC: Hardcore hip hop. Boom bap. Rap Rock.
Public Enemy: Hardcore Hip Hop. As far as lyrical content goes, Conscious hip hop.
Beastie Boys 90's): Hardcore hip hop, rap rock.
ATCQ: Jazz rap.
KRS-One: Boom Bap
Eric B. and Rakim: jazz rap, boom bap
De La Soul: Boom bap, pop rap, jazz rap.
These are going off RYM's genre tags, which is way better in genre tagging than Wikipedia, or as I like to call them, CakeIsCollegeRock.com. You gave me the wrost possible site to argue with. Maybe because you're wrong? The only thing connecting them is hardcore hip hop or its subgenre boom bap, which is mostly a production based genre anyway.
By the way, I've heard most of the bands in that article. 90's stuff, or maybe late 80's. It seems to me the golden age is limited to hardcore hip hop, boom bap, and maybe jazz rap. All you told me with this is 90's Golden Age hip hop is 90's hardcore hip hop, which is limiting a genre to a decade. But if you want to desciribe the sound of the golden age, please do so. Don't bring up Wikipedia to argue with me. If you can't describe it or give me a link to a place where 90's hip hop is an offical genre, then forget it. If you want to do a similar round, I'd be happy to do boom bap or hardcore. But I'm not limiting to time periods or eras or decades.
I might do it for some special round at some point, such as celebrating the anniversary of a great golden age hip hop release. But you're going to have to do better than Wikipedia to convince me. And if I am OCDing all over this, that just means I'm actually thinking this through rather than resorting to one of the least trustworthy sites in history and then telling you to **** yourself. If you don't like it, I'm sorry you feel that way.
I'll considerr it, but only if you give me a good explanation of the sound or give me more trustworthy/less questionable links.