About Rock n’ Roll’s Last Stand and Hip Hop
Thirty years ago, rock music was shaken to its core and with that upheaval came a new era and different attitude in American music and demeanor. This change sparked a radical shift for rock as a genre, rendering the shiny, over the top acts of sub-genres like Hair Metal and Glam Rock virtually obsolete along with groups such as Van Halen, Guns N’ Roses, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi and Mötley Crüe, to name a few. For a stretch of time between the early to mid 1990s, rock had captured the world’s attention with the help of the Seattle Grunge scene manned …