Top 5- Bad Boys (& Lady) of Hip Hop

Who’s your TOP 5- BAD BOYS of HIP HOP? Notebook Art by E. Palmer In a recent barbershop conversations, comments suggestions that today’s hip hop artist are somehow lesser than their predecessors from our teenage prime (circa late 80’s-early 90’s). Needless to say I neither agree or disagree with opinion. I believe each generation believes the music of their prime to be superior and other generations simply inferior. Ask someone from the 60’s about Motown or James Brown what they think about N.W.A. or 2 Live Crew and their response would probably be, “garbage or filth.” I believe the same opinions bode with generation and generation now. If listening to Young Thug or Migos we’d react with, “huh?” We simply can’t relate. Luckily my mother influenced me with music of her generation and forward. The sounds of Aretha, Marvin, Luther, and Michael played throughout our home. As the influence of hip hop chimed in with Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster...