Idolator

In addition to giving us the best bit of moralizing in hip-hop history, the Stop The Violence movement unified hip-hop in the late '80s, precisely at the moment when the press started playing the genre up as the worst menace to America's young people since disco/rock/swing/filthy ragtime sheet music. Now that hip-hop is once again attracting beaucoup negative attention from the media, a light went off above KRS-One's head. More »