Hip-hop firmly established itself as both a cultural and commercially viable force in the 1980s, but it was still primarily an underground concern. The following decade changed all that. For the first time, its artists became superstars in their own right. The huge hits of 90s hip-hop put the genre firmly at the top of the heap – a lofty position from which it’s never looked back.
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