As a Hip-Hop fan born in ’87, along with others fan born in
the late eighties, we all grew up listening to music from the likes of Nas,
Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan, Scarface, 2Pac, Biggie Smalls, etc. These were the figures in music that older
peers told us would teach us the groundwork of this art form. This was “real Hip-Hop”.
Unfortunately for us, while these artists did create epic
pieces, it was only when we were older that we could truly understand exactly
what type of impact they had made. Along
with this, we could only reflect on the past, but didn't have champion MCs of
our own that could speak through our lenses and tell stories we could
