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- The top ten list reads like a history of hip hop. Def Jam, the pioneer label in hip hop, is properly at #1. Young Money has only been active for the past six years, and it’s at #2, exemplifying the current state of hip hop and its concentration in one place. Circle size indicates Billboard performance of Label’s artists.
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Why Tupac Is Still the Most Important Rapper of Our Generation Why Tupac Is Still the Most Important Rapper of Our Generation. If Tupac Shakur had not been murdered almost two decades ago, he would be celebrating his 43rd birthday in just a few short weeks. Were he alive, he'd be the same age as veterans of the game like Snoop Dogg and Jay Z. Snoop calls himself the uncle of rap.
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The History of Hip-Hop Over the Years While hip-hop had not yet become mainstream, it became well known among African Americans, even outside of New York City, by the end of the ’70s. Cities like Los Angeles, Baltimore, Dallas, Kansas City, San Antonio, Miami, Seattle, St. Louis, New Orleans, Houston, and Washington, DC, had emerging hip-hop communities.y the end of the decade, Kurtis Blow had become the first hip-hop artist signed to a major record deal, and “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang exposed America to hip hop in 1979. The Golden Age of the ’80s. Image Source. Hip-hop would develop into a more complex form of music during the 1980s.
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- The main aspects of hip hop that make the style would be passion  and expression of emotion. It is a good thing to have some skills  like technique but the only way the move … ments develop are by  believing in yourself and feeling the emotion as well as having fun  and feeling the beat.
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- Graffiti: Hip Hop Culture and Graffiti Today. Graffiti in hip hop began as a way of tagging for one's crew/gang, and developed during the 1970s on the subways of New York, and later expanded to the city walls themselves.
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Ty Dolla $ign Pitchfork Essentials: Back to Cali: New School West Coast Rap After years on the periphery, the West Coast is once again a dominant force in hip-hop culture thanks to trendsetters like Kendrick Lamar, Vince Staples, and DJ Mustard.
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- Rap is one component of hip-hop subculture, alongside break dancing, graffiti, and DJing. As the most well-known aspect of hip-hop, rap is one of the most important forms of American popular culture. To unlock this lesson you must be a Study.com Member.
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Eazy-ERapper Born Eric Lynn Wright, he is an influential West Coast rapper and producer who is best known for being a part of the late 80's rap group NWA. Before Fame He dropped out of high school and sold drugs, before finding refuge in rapping.
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This Fridayâs Music Releases | April 6 2018 Upvote +1 Downvote. Since I am very much into underground hip-hop and fast rap, I decided I would put together a list of who I consider the top 10 fastest emcees alive that were signed to a record label or appear on an official album.
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The W Emerging in 1993, when Dr. Dre's G-funk had overtaken the hip-hop world, the Staten Island, New York-based Wu-Tang Clan proved to be the most revolutionary rap group of the mid-'90s -- and only partially because of their music.
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11 Most Influential DJs Anticipation for Activision's DJ Hero is at a fever pitch, and with the genre-changing game dropping soon, we thought we'd take a look a closer look at deejaying itself and reminisce about some of the craft's most prolific artists. These DJs are the most influential in their field. Some of them are forefathers of the hip-hop sound, many are originators of various techniques, and others have helped propel the art of deejaying to the forefront in popular culture.
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- Today Hip-Hop is considered to be dead in the mainstream because so-called mainstream Hip-Hop doesn't have the elements of hip-hop and have no meaning. The stuff on MTV and the radio can't be called Hip-Hop because the lyrics don't have any meaning or self expression.
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- This was regarded in the pages of history that Nicki Minaj was the most charted female rapper of the world. The top 10 songs of this female singer in 2015-2016 are as follows: 1. SUPER BASS: This is the best hip hop song by a woman. This song proved her expertise to give out the best songs ever.
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Top 25 Hip Hop blogs Blog-Rank >> Top 25 blogs in Hip Hop Category. You can review blog Rank FAQs. Blog Rank uses over 20 different factors to rank the blogs in any category. Some of the factors include:RSS membership, incoming links, Compete Alexa,and Technorati ranking, and social sites popularity [Learn more about our ranking logic]
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- The act of rhyming to the beat of music was called emceeing. The term rap seemed to be associated with hip hop around 1979 with release of two records in '79. The first was called King Tim III [Personality Jock] which is considered Hip Hop's first record. This was track put out by the Brooklyn based Fatback Band.
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The History of Hip-Hop These four elements are what makes hip hop so great and unique. Hip hop started out as the voice of Black America in the 80’s, which was filled with the widespread use of crack cocaine, poverty, and racism (which is still very alive today). Over time, this become a national and even global phenomenon.
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The Worldâs Top 10 Richest Hip-Hop Artists The World’s Top 10 Richest Hip-Hop Artists. SLIDESHOW: Dr Dre — pictured wearing the headphones that have persuaded Apple to shell out US$3 billion — tops Billionaire.com’s hip-hop rich list above other household names such as Puff Daddy and Jay-Z (Photo credit: AFP).
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Method to the Madness: Weighing in on Hip Hop Technique by Aysha Upchurch Hip Hop is not just a trend or fad, or young people behaving badly. It is a cultural product of 1970’s urban history. It is not something that started in a studio or under a microscope. Hip Hop began as a counter culture. In 1970’s New York, the streets were both a classroom and a playground for disadvantaged youth.
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- Woodie, Brotha Lynch, Mac Lethal, Atmosphere... the list goes on. But instead we have rap producers like P. Diddy forcing commercial rap on it. everybody is rapping like it's a commercial. Diddy is the bane of hip hop, he represent every wordly MC that only advertise products and life styles in their songs.
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Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4: Top Game Consoles Duke It Out The Xbox One uses Xbox Live, and the PlayStation 4 uses the PlayStation Network to access online services. In both cases, you need to purchase the premium subscription plan (Xbox Live Gold for Xbox Live, PS Plus for PlayStation Network) to play games online.
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Rick Rubin, Russell Simmons: Def Jam's First 25 Years For hip-hop music in the early 1980s, that label was Def Jam. A new book attempts to capture that history in photos, interviews and essays. It's called Def Jam Recordings: The First 25 Years of the Last Great Record Label. LL Cool J was just 17 when he became one of the first artists signed to the company. The men who founded the Def Jam label in 1984 weren't much older.
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Hip hop music Hip hop became a best-selling pop music genre in the mid-1990s and the top selling music genre by 1999. The popularity of hip hop music continued through the 2000s, with hip hop influences also increasingly finding their way into mainstream pop.
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Top 12 Hip hop Dance Styles 1. B-boying or breaking. Perhaps the most well-known of hip hop dance styles, b-boying or break dancing is one of the first pillars of the original hip hop movement. It is traditionally done within a circle or cypher where b-boys will execute their dances moves, often competing improvisationally with other b-boys. It remains to be the one of the most popular dance styles affliated to hip hop. There you go, a list of the most popular and important hip hop dance styles of date.
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Nas Nas is often named as one of the greatest hip hop artists. MTV ranked him at number 5 on their list of The Greatest MCs of All Time. In 2012, The Source ranked him No. 2 on their list of the Top 50 Lyricists of All Time. In 2013, Nas was ranked fourth on MTV's Hottest MCs in the Game list.n 1991, Nas performed on Main Source 's Live at the Barbeque. In mid-1992, Nas was approached by MC Serch of 3rd Bass, who became his manager and secured Nas a record deal with Columbia Records the same year.
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11 Most Influential DJs Terminator X (Norman Rogers) is best known as the DJ for Public Enemy, one of the most influential rap groups of all time. X's innovative turntable work on the landmark It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back proved that the turntables were as key to heavy rap as driving beats and aggressive lyrics.
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Hip hop fashion Hip Hop artists made brands like Gucci and Louis Vuitton popular amongst the hip hop community. Throughout these years many fashion trends from the 80s and early 90s were made popular again, such as the door knocker earring and form fitting jeans for males.