For people that only know what rap/hip-hop is today, this is a series that will fill you in on the basics of the history of the art form. However, given that it ends simply with Dr. Dre's Chronic, this is incomplete at best. The interviews with Russell Simmons, Cube, Ice-T, and other formative rappers are enlightening. The narrator, Shad, rightly goes to New York and the heavy influence of the 70s and 80s on what hip-hop is today. It is the lack of including the response from New York to the West Coast gangsta rap, the lack of even mentioning Tupac, not talking about the rapid evolution the art went through during the 90s and 00s that all make this feel like a let down of a series. I liked it, but it could have been so much more.
Review of Hip-Hop Evolution
