The Age of Hip-Hop: From the streets to cultural dominance

Many artists including Jay-Z and Logic have gone deep into their battles with drug addiction and depression, along with being honest about their suicidal tendencies. Logic even had a song named after the Suicide Prevention Helpline number, resulting in call traffic to the helpline increasing by 50%.

Some artists also sing about the gun violence they witnessed, which led to traumatic experiences in their formative years. Cases of domestic violence like with rapper Onfroy prove that even jail time does not hit your rap career.

The Hip-Hop scene, once an outlier, became the status quo with many artists taking over television shows, cable, and network series, apart from hosting shows, and winning prestigious television awards.

Hip-Hop is extremely big in the festival circuits too, with stars having the hip-hop attitude providing a rock-star like energy to big concerts, something which is way more appealing than a DJ churning out EDM tunes.

• Fashion has been increasingly shaped by Hip-Hop and rap artists, since the 1970s.
• Will Smith was, for those who don't know, a very colorful 'Fresh Prince in the 80s.
• In the 90s, stars like Run-DMC, LL Cool J, Salt-N-Pepa put their fashion styles on display.
• Kanye West gave competition to big brands with his clothing and accessories line up, Yeezy.
• Many hip-hop stars also endorsed fashion brands like Calvin Klein and Dior Homme.