Play.
Five ways in. Test what you know, follow a curator-built playlist, trace a sample, walk a diss-track timeline, or visit the year you turned sixteen.
- surface 01
Guess the Year
50-question deck. Pick the release year for canonical hip-hop albums. Browser-side scoring; no account.
Start quiz → - surface 02
Listening Journeys
5 curated playlists with prose annotations: Bridge Wars in 7 Tracks · G-Funk Summer · ATL 2003 · Backpack 1996 · Drill Origins.
Browse 5 journeys → - surface 03
Beef Trees
20 tracked beefs. Vertical diss-track chronology per beef; key tracks highlighted. Full side-by-side visual tree deferred to v1.5+.
All 20 beefs → - surface 04
Sample Map
28 source tracks (often non-hip-hop) and the hip-hop records that sampled them. List view in v1; visual map in v1.5+.
Open map → - surface 05
Time Capsule
Pick a birth year. We'll show you the hip-hop landscape the year you turned 16 — era, marquee moments, albums.
Pick a year →
Each surface is a minimum viable v1. The visual sample-map and the side-by-side beef tree are explicitly deferred to v1.5+ per the build plan.