90s HIP HOP

90s HIP HOP

The music of my youth.

I remember cruising to downtown Toronto on weekends to buy mixtapes at Yonge-Dundas Square. This was the only way to hear new Underground Hip Hop outside of listening to college radio – that is if you could catch their signal from smalltown Ontario.

Gang Starr. Souls Of Mischief. Tha Alkaholiks. Onyx. Wu-Tang Clan. A Tribe Called Quest. Smif N Wessun. Common. Group Home. Black Moon. Casual. Mobb Deep. Das Efx. The Pharcyde. Nas. Notorious B.I.G. KRS-ONE. Geto Boys. Snoop Dogg. Outkast. The Roots. Crooklyn Dodgers.

– HK