1991: The Most Important Year in Pop-Music History
Historical, musical, and quantitative evidence shows that the rise of rap is the most important thing that has ever happened to the genre. On June 22, 1991, Billboard announced a new album had surpassed Out of Time, by R.E.M., to become the most popular in the country. It was Niggaz4life, by N.W.A., which had debuted the previous week at number 2 and sold nearly a million copies in its first […]
