With hip-hop being so new, shoe brands were still ... attire being popularized by the likes of Queen Latifah and other Afrocentric rappers like her, it was especially common for the leather ...

Who do you consider a hip-hop style pioneer? Queen Latifah’s Afrocentric style. It’s important because she was celebrating the African diaspora and our lineage and she helped bring that into ...

West Coast Latin hip-hop suffers a similar flattening ... each Thursday night were frequently described as the "conscious, Afrocentric alternative" to the "vulgar" and "nihilistic" gangsta ...

Women in hip hop have offered up some of the most thrilling ... Pepa and DJ Spinderella wore color-blocked jackets, dookie chains, Afrocentric patterns, and blunt colorful hairstyles.

and Jarobi White — collectively known as A Tribe Called Quest — have been widely celebrated for their Afrocentric, neo-soul approach to hip-hop. "The rappers from Tribe were far from urban ...

Queen Latifah gives hip-hop "a whole lot of credit" for where her legacy stands. Looking back on her emergence in the 1980s — when she introduced her vibrant Afrocentric style and women empowerm ...

In a recently circulated interview, veteran artist and hip-hop historian Paradise Gray of the Afrocentric rap group X Clan asserts, “None of us invented anything. ... Whatever was going on in ...

With hip-hop officially turning 50 years old this ... bringing an offbeat and Afrocentric sensibility to a series of classic albums by Long Island’s playfully psychedelic De La Soul, the ...

And in Hip-Hop in particular, crate diggers have elevated ... While the music spoke for itself, the classic cover with its afrocentric pallet of colors made the cipher complete.— ...

As the group’s most popular work, this album marked the height of Hip Hop’s Afrocentric/hippie movement. Commercially, Midnight Marauders is the A Tribe Called Quest’s highest selling album.