Editing Rapping (section)

===Golden age===
{{Main|Golden age hip hop}}
Golden age hip hop (the mid-1980s to early '90s)<ref name="nytimes.com">Jon Caramanica, [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/arts/music/26jon.html "Hip-Hop's Raiders of the Lost Archives"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140410093712/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/26/arts/music/26jon.html |date=April 10, 2014 }}, ''The New York Times'', June 26, 2005.</ref> was the time period where hip-hop lyricism went through its most drastic transformation – writer William Jelani Cobb says "in these golden years, a critical mass of mic prodigies were literally creating themselves and their art form at the same time"<ref>Cobb, Jelani William, 2007, ''To the Break of Dawn'', NYU Press, p. 47.</ref> and Allmusic writes, "rhymers like [[Public Enemy (group)|PE]]'s [[Chuck D]], [[Big Daddy Kane]], [[KRS-One]], and [[Rakim]] basically invented the complex wordplay and lyrical kung-fu of later hip-hop".<ref name="ReferenceA">[{{AllMusic|class=explore|id=style/d12014|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic]</ref> The golden age is considered to have ended around 1993–94, marking the end of rap lyricism's most innovative period.<ref name="nytimes.com"/><ref name="ReferenceA"/>