A full decade before Public Enemy revolutionized the world of rap, Chuck D first encountered the album he describes today as "a verbal roadmap for people trying to understand the ghetto they were in: 'What is this life that's ahead of me, and how can I actually figure out how to handle it?' That's what this record was." He is talking about Lightnin' Rod's 1973 album, Hustlers Convention, a crucial but largely overlooked link in hip-hop's evolutionary chain. The genre's pioneers - Melle Mel, Grandmaster Caz, Fab 5 Freddy - knew it by heart. Grandmaster Flash played it at early block parties, and it was later sampled by the Beastie Boys, Wu Tang Clan and countless others.

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Genre

Soul/RNB/Funk/Disco

Format

LP · 1 disc

Release

01-01-1970

Label

Celluloid

Item-nr

259308

EAN

0000000000000

Availability

Not in stock