The Day Hip-Hop Died
The long-reaching effects of The 1995 Source Awards
8 min readFeb 27, 2015
“None of us were the same after that day.”
- Questlove (of The Roots)
In 1995, hip-hop music was at its pinnacle. It was in the midst of a second golden age that saw incredibly talented new artists burst onto the scene and create some of the best…