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Jul 20, 2023 · As hip hop emerged from its infancy in the late ’70s and began to truly take form in the ’80s, several pioneering artists and groups stood out for their innovation, skill, and cultural influence. These individuals not only defined the sound of the decade but also laid the foundation for future generations of hip hop artists.
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- 1970. The Last Poets, a collective of spoken word artists release their debut album. Their work is considered a predecessor to rap music as it is part of the Black Arts Movement.
- 1973. DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell) hosts what is considered the first hip hop party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. Graffiti tagging spreads throughout the boroughs of New York City.
- 1974. Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash and Grandmaster Caz are all influenced by DJ Kool Herc. They all begin DJing at parties throughout the Bronx.
- 1975. Grandmaster Flash invents a new method of DJing. His method connects two songs during their beat breaks.
Jan 29, 2024 · 1970s – 1980s: The Birth of a Movement. Hip Hop Personality DJ Kool Herc (aka Clive Campbell) performs on January 10, 1994. The 1970s rap era provided the groundwork for hip-hop's rise to prominence. DJ Kool Herc's block parties introduced breakbeats and gave birth to the art of DJing. This period gave way to the four pillars of hip-hop ...
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Apr 18, 2024 · These early MCs and deejays constituted rap’s old school. Hip-hop is a cultural movement that attained popularity in the 1980s and ’90s. It is the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement’s most lasting and influential art form.
- Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message (1982) Perhaps the most important song in Hip Hop history. “The Message” was the first song with unabashed commentaries on life and society, and it had a huge influence on many conscious Hip Hop artists who came later.
- Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause (1987) “Rebel Without a Pause” was the first song created for and the first single released from Public Enemy‘s masterpiece It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
- Run DMC - Sucker MCs (1983) First released in 1983, this was the B-side to Run DMC‘s first single “It’s Like That”. “Sucker MCs” was a perfect early indicator of the direction Hip Hop was going in.
- Eric B & Rakim - Microphone Fiend (1988) This beat. These lyrics. PERFECTION. Strangely the single release of this track wasn’t a huge success in 1988, but since then this track has rightfully come to be recognized not only as the quintessential Eric B & Rakim song but as one of Hip Hop’s biggest songs ever as well.
Chuck Philips, Los Angeles Times, 1992 Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of inner-city American black youths. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word gangster. The genre was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Schoolly D and Ice-T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like N.W.A. In 1985 Schoolly D released "P ...
Apr 1, 2023 · Hip-hop’s golden age: The 80s. Hip-hop exploded in the 80s, an era known as the music’s “Golden Age”. Every kid in every urban area was thrilled with a genre that didn’t require a musical instrument or a singing voice: most homes contained a record deck back then. Turntablism, scratching and rapping were just part of the story.
