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I REMEMBER WHEN RAP WAS YOUNG

    In the summer of 1984 when I started work on SPIN, which was then nothing more than a vague idea for a magazine about the music people I knew were actually listening to and the larger world we lived in, I had heard about rap, and I had read about hip-hop. But only […]
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THE SPIN INTERVIEW: DJ Kool Herc

    Set the scene: 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, August 11, 1973, a summer party in an apartment building’s rec room. Twenty-five cents admission for girls, 50 cents for boys. Olde English 800 or Colt 45 for a buck. Could be just another sweaty night in the city, except that the DJ is […]
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Last Month's Cover

PORTFOLIO HIP HOP 50

Superstar photographer Christian Witkin has been photographing rappers for decades. Here’s a selection, and some reminiscences…
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