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Marco Polo: Port Authority

Jeff Weiss, Stylus, 7 June 2007

FROM HYPHY TO CRUNK to snap to grime to whatever the fuck Subtle is, hip-hop has split into a wide variety of sub-genres since its inception. Despite this, most hip-hop heads can be fit pretty neatly into two categories: those who consider NYC's two golden ages of hip-hop (87-88, 93-97) the high-water marks for the genre, and those who don't.

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