When you close your eyes and think about the music of the 1980s, what comes to mind? Synths, early rap? Prince dressed in purple, Tom Petty and his wheat-colored hair? Stevie Nicks and Michael Jackson ...

I was the perfect age when hip-hop and rap started to get big — a young early-‘80s teenager who was way into punk rock and ...

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