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Feb 16, 2024 · Until the first hip hop records in 1979, the music and raps which helped shape hip hop culture were performed at live events and shared as taped recordings. ... directed at hip hop group U.T.F.O ...
Sep 16, 2019 · First Hip Hop Single to Reach the Billboard Top 40 “Rapper’s Delight” made it into the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart on January 5, 1980, peaking at no. 36 that same month ...
Aug 3, 2020 · That honor likely goes to the Sequence, the group comprising Angie Stone, Cheryl "the Pearl" Cook and Gwendolyn "Blondy" Chisolm from South Carolina, and its 1979 song "Funk You Up," the first rap ...
New Zealand rapper King Kapisi (Bill Urale) made a basketball-themed music video for his 2005 single "Raise Up". Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, [1] emceeing [2] or MCing [2] [3]) is an African-American artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates " rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular ...
May 29, 2013 · Geto Boys. Geto Boys, a Houston rap group, was formed in 1986 by James “Lil’ J” Smith, owner of Rap-A-Lot Records. The Geto Boys are regarded as the group that not only put Houston (and the Fifth Ward) on the hip-hop map, but also the South on the hip-hop map. They are also one of the first groups to pioneer what critics would call the ...
Dec 16, 2023 · 3. 'Planet Rock' by Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force (1982) Legendary record producer and cofounder of Def Jam Recordings, Rick Rubin, called this "One of the most influential songs of ...
Southern hip-hop originated from four key cities — Houston, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Memphis. Houston’s Geto Boys were the first southern hip-hop group to gain mainstream popularity due in part to their hit “Mind Playing Tricks on Me,” which was featured on their 1991 album We Can’t Be Stopped. Texas-bred rappers Pimp C and Bun B of ...
