Onstage at KMEL Summer Jam 1993 in Mountain View, California
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The year 1993 saw hip-hop go through one of its most lasting periods of metamorphosis. “The second Tuesday of November 1993,” says The Roots’ Questlove in the documentary Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels Of A Tribe Called Quest, “I consider that to be the last great day in classic hip-hop.” It was on that day that two iconic albums were released: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by the Wu-Tang Clan and Midnight Marauders by A Tribe Called Quest.