Sit shotgun while RIDES co-signs hip-hop’s most influential whips before the Lex was pushing up on the set…You feelin’ it?

by Willie G.

June 25, 2006. Radio City Music Hall was on its feet as the curtain rose and a white Lex carrying hip-hop’s CEO pulled out on stage. Not only was Jay rolling back like rubbers lyrically that night, but his ’96 Lexus GS 300 was period correct beyond a Reasonable Doubt. The days of Lex’es and E-Classes were only ten years ago; before every rapper was pushing hundred-thousand dollar cars. Now remember, the mid-90s was a turning point…hip-hop was about to become a commodity and everyone down for the ride was gonna get rich. But RIDES is gonna take it back way before that, to a time when rolling around in a tinted-out Jetta was fresh. Peep the ten most influential hip-hop whips before 1996…

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