I'm like anybody from the '90s. I was just very lucky ... I hope with my book "Rap is Risen," people see hip-hop for what it is or was with no pretense. Photos, like U-God washing dishes or ...

From Camp Lo to Coolio, here's a list of oft-forgotten hip-hop gems of the '90s that deserve a lot more rotation.

Hip-hop might have been birthed in the ‘80s; however it wasn't until the ‘90s when the genre started to take off. It was an era of legends like Nas, the Notorious B.I.G., Tupac, and more who ...