28 Rarely Seen Photos of Hip-Hop Icons in the '90s

Although hip-hop is the most dominant and influential musical genre in America today, it was still a burgeoning category in the early 1990s. Acts and artists like Wu-Tang Clan, Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, Queen Latifah, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dogg were just getting started. Their rise was fast, and by the close of the decade, they would be household names. Today they're icons. As these 28 photos from the '90s show, these stars all looked like stars right from the start.