This year, NPR, along with member stations, has been marking the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. One of those stations, KEXP in Seattle, has been celebrating with a weekly podcast, 50 Years Of Hip-Hop.
They say that most people under the age of 30 these days wouldn’t recognize the sound of a needle scratching across a record. And why would they? I wonder how many of them have even seen a record ...