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The Sunday Story: Hip-Hop Verses That Changed Our Lives

The Sunday Story: Hip-Hop Verses That Changed Our Lives

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Big Boi (left) and Andre 3000 of Outkast perform at the Firefly Music Festival in 2014. Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Firefly Music Festival hide caption

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Big Boi (left) and Andre 3000 of Outkast perform at the Firefly Music Festival in 2014.

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This month marks 50 years since the birth of hip-hop, so our friends at NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast reached out to some NPR colleagues as well as hip-hop luminaries Common, Tarriona "Tank" Ball, Quelle Chris and Big Freedia, to ask them what hip-hop verse changed their lives.

For more on the NPR's coverage of Hip-Hop's 50th check out: NPR Music as well as the digital series All Rap Is Local.

You can hear all the tracks discussed in this episode in our Spotify playlist.

This featured episode of Pop Culture Happy Hour was produced by Cher Vincent, Robin Hilton and Mike Katzif. It was edited by Jessica Reedy.

Additional production for The Sunday Story by Andrew Mambo and editing by Liana Simstrom. Irene Noguchi is our Executive Producer.

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