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Dec 14, 2020 · Hip Hop Culture Timeline: 1970 to 1983. The Sugar Hill Gang recorded the first rap album in 1979. Anthony Barboza/Getty Images. By. Femi Lewis. Updated on December 14, 2020. This timeline of hip hop culture traces the beginning of the movement in the 1970s to the early 1980s. This 13-year journey begins with The Last Poets and ends with Run-DMC.
During the decade of 1997–2007, rap music produced in cities such as Atlanta, New Orleans, Memphis, Miami, and Houston transformed the margins into the rap mainstream. These years saw southern artists rise to national prominence, with a related surge in major label interest and investment in southern rap, a process encapsulated and expressed by the idea of the Dirty South. Through an ...
Feb 6, 2024 · Honoring Rap’s Pioneers and Looking Ahead. Its founders—from DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Coke La Rock to the Sugarhill Gang and Kurtis Blow—each played instrumental roles in the development of rap. It is crucial to recognize the diverse origins and the pioneers who crafted it, as well as the profound impact it has made on art ...
Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or dirty south, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Memphis, and Miami —five cities which constitute the "Southern Network" in rap music. [1] [2] [3]
Southern Hip Hop & Rap music culture and practice grew in New Orleans throughout the decade of the 1980s thanks to the efforts of DJ groups like Denny Dee's New York Incorporated and the Brown Clowns. The first rap record released by a New Orleans-based group was "We Destroy" (1986) by the Ninja Crew, tellingly, on a Miami-based label, 4-Sight.
The story of Houston’s first bona fide rap label, Rap-A-Lot Records, and the legendary group it spawned starts with this twelve-inch single about “Girls hounding homeboys all day nonstop ...
Apr 1, 2024 · Rap, musical style in which rhythmic and/or rhyming speech is chanted (’rapped’) to musical accompaniment. This backing music, which can include digital sampling, is also called hip-hop, the name used to refer to a broader cultural movement that includes rap, deejaying, graffiti painting, and break dancing.
