Hip-hop has always been about lineage. Houston royalty Bun B and Bay Area leader of the new school, Symba, are not only two of the genre’s most formidable wordsmiths, but students of the game, set to preserve the traditions and pillars of this thing we love called hip-hop.

Miami looked at hip-hop like this New York invasion. All the mixtape DJs were coming out of New York back then, and they’re like, ‘shout out Brooklyn, shout out Queens,’ and it was kind of weird when you’re driving out in Miami and the DJ is shouting about New York. – DJ EFN

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