You guys enjoying this 30 years of Hip Hop thing on Vh1?

I don't know. Everyone always gets extremely offended like it's a race issue when it's misspelled and I don't always remember how many n's or of it's just an h or an e and then an h.

Anyway, yeah this may have been aired before - it's called "30 years of hip hop" I think. Ive seen the Ego Trip things before, and they're all fantabulous but this is different. It's really in depth. They talked about the Geto Boys for like 5 minutes, which you never get to see. A lot of funny quotes ("You never hear Madonna talk about what it's like being from Michigan"), a lot of clips I'd never seen before, as opposed to drawing from the same stockpile of footage they re-arrange to make 95% of their shows. I thought it was pretty good and was pissed off I missed so much of it.

The one problem I have with it is, for all of the in-depth coverage of EVERY major issue in hip-hop - and it is wonderfully exhaustive - the depth of coverage seemed to me to drop off after the Biggie/Pac disasters. It was kind of like a lead up to those two events, and then everything else after. This is a small problem overall, but a lot has happened in the decade since those two slayings occurred, and they seem to have gotten somewhat of a short shrift, IMHO.

But yeah, totally worth watching and rewatching and hell, even taping!

Def Jam was far more than a Rock-Rap label in the 80's. The 90's were more that Tupac/Biggie.

I think Mao and other Ego-Trippers has nothing to do with it.

But yeah, it's still worth a watch if you can look past a few things.