Musical genres are bending, twisting and breaking this day in age, and in the process, hip-hop has broken out of its sampling and synthesized beats and has embraced rock guitars and distortion.
This started really with the Run-D.M.C./Aerosmith collaboration for “Walk this Way,” and the work of the Beastie Boys, but the amalgamation really took form with pioneers N.E.R.D. The band–fronted by the prolific Pharrell Williams–blazed the trail 10 years ago with their style-busting debut album, In Search Of…, though the band departed from that style thereafter.
Today, the best-known rock-rap group is Geneva, N.Y.’s Gym Class[…]
