![]() ![]() ![]() Not only has hip hop dominated our culture for the last three decades, but its subgenres, which are very much shaped by their geography, lend themselves to this type of commemoration. It’s kind of bonkers if you think about it. For whatever reason - cough, racism - we don’t give the same geographical consideration to rap as we do to other genres (country has the Grand Ole Opry Tejano has the Day’s Inn motel room in Corpus Christi, Texas, where Selena was fatally shot). Or you could go stateside and roll with Graceland, the compound in Memphis, Tennessee that Elvis Presley built with the money made ripping off black artists or the dairy farm in upstate New York that held the Woodstock Music & Art Fair in 1969, a music festival that defined a generation thanks to performances by the likes of Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, and The Band.īut if I were to ask you to do the same for hip hop, would you be able to? You could go with the street crossing in front of London’s Abbey Road studios, made famous by the cover of The Beatles’ 1969 record, Abbey Road. After all, there are plenty to choose from. If I were to ask you to name a rock and roll historical landmark, chances are that you would have absolutely no problem answering that question.
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