By the time De La Soul released Stakes Is High, in 1996, hip-hop had been commandeered by what Moore calls the “shiny-suit” era of Sean Combs and Notorious B.I.G., all gangster posturing and ...

By ’92, we saw the rise of the short-lived popularity of Hip-Hop Jazz, which by ’97 would be fully replaced by G-Funk, Wu-Tang/Nas/B.I.G street rap, and eventually the shiny suit “Jiggy” era. In the ...