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The Bay Area Was Hip-Hop Before There Was Hip-Hop

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'It's Bittersweet': The Story Behind RBL Posse’s ‘A Lesson to Be Learned’ Cover Photo

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Why We’re Spending a Year Covering Bay Area Hip-Hop History

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Watch: ‘We Were Hyphy’ Celebrates the Bay’s Innovative 2000s Rap Subculture

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How I Made a Bay Area Classic at Age 15

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Playlists: Dive Into Bay Area Hip-Hop Across the Decades

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The Bay Area Rap Battle Heard 'Round the World

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Before ‘I Gott Grapes,’ Nump Engineered Some of Hyphy’s Biggest Hits

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A Trip With Davey D Back to 1984, When Hip-Hop Was Still Undefined

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Sucka Free History with Dregs One

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In the ’90s, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy Defied Homophobia and Changed Hip-Hop

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MC Hammer ‘Will Beat Yo' Ass’—and Other Hard Tales of the MTV-Friendly Rapper

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