Because of the evolve-or-die mentality and antiauthoritarian streak that are so deeply rooted in hip-hop's DNA, rap music's always been a young person's game. For most of its history, rappers were expected, Logan's Run-style, to bow out before they turned 30 or else be banished to the fringes of the culture to release ever less consequential records to a dwindling audience of fellow olds.…
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