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1990 hip hop rap music expands...
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1990 hip hop rap music expands...

Item # 728126 ·
Sunday edition CALENDAR SECTION only of the Los Angeles Times, Dec. 30, 1990 

* West Coast hip-hop gangsta rap music 
* M.C. Hammer - Vanilla Ice and more 

Often revered as the undisputed "bible" of Hollywood, the Sunday Calendar section occupied a rare space in journalism where a single publication could simultaneously dictate global entertainment trends and govern the inner workings of show business. Today, physical copies are an absolute rarity, largely because they were printed on standard, ephemeral newsprint designed to be devoured and promptly discarded at the end of the week.
Page 65 of this section has a editorial by Patrick Goldstein headed: "A Capital Year at the Record Companies" with photo of "Bell Biv DeVoe" (see images)
 I suspect this to be an extremely rare item because there was really no reason to save it at the time.
Complete Calendar section only with all 92 pages, very nice condition.

Background: The true significance of Goldstein’s late-1990 commentary lies in how accurately it predicted the institutional warfare that would define American pop culture throughout the 1990s. By capturing hip-hop at this precise crossroads, the editorial documented the transition of rap from a dismissed regional subculture into an unstoppable economic and political force that corporate America could no longer ignore, yet desperately wanted to sanitize. This friction ignited a massive cultural paradigm shift: the corporate pushback and censorship Goldstein detailed didn't stifle the genre; instead, it inadvertently codified hip-hop as the ultimate counterculture symbol for a generation of youth, establishing the "outlaw" marketing blueprint that would later propel artists like Tupac Shakur, Eminem, and Death Row Records to global dominance. Ultimately, this moment signified the birth of modern music industry politics, proving that the street authenticity executive boardrooms tried to suppress was actually the most valuable currency in entertainment.
Category: The 20th Century
Price
$48
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.