Shamira Ibrahim

Shamira Ibrahim

Shamira Ibrahim is a GRAMMY.com contributor.

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How Native Tongues Expanded Hip-Hop With Eclectic Sounds & Vision

When people fondly refer back to hip-hop’s golden age, they are talking about hip-hop’s adolescence — an experimental era when no idea was too risky, no innovation too bold, no boundary too established to be broken. This period between the mid 1980s and mid '90s saw hip-hop’s elders transported into new directions as the culture transitioned into the capitalist mainstream.…

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