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The earliest hip-hop music was performed live, at house parties and block party events, and it was not recorded. DJs would play breaks from popular songs using two turntables and a DJ mixer. Prior to 1979, recorded hip-hop music consisted mainly of PA system soundboard recordings of live party shows and early hip-hop mixtapes by DJs.
IndieFeed is a music discovery podcast, playlist and web service, founded in 2004, which offers new music from independent artists in the form of single song shows. Shows include a brief introduction, a featured music track, info about the artist and where to find more. [1]
Rap Pages was an American music magazine, one of the first publications dedicated to hip hop. The first issue was released in October 1991. Originally published by Larry Flynt Publications, the magazine was closed in October 1999. It was sold to Timaj Publications in May 2000, who released several more issues, but by the end of 2000 stopped ...
Joseph Simmons (R) and Darryl McDaniels (L) from Run-D.M.C. perform during the Hip Hop 50 Live concert, marking the 50th anniversary of the birth of hip hop, at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx borough ...
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 ...
Uproxx was founded in 2008 by Jarret Myer and Brian Brater, who previously co-founded the hip hop label Rawkus Records in 1996. [2] [3]In April 2014, Uproxx was acquired by Woven Digital, [4] an ad network company.
Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [68] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...
2DopeBoyz is an online hip hop music review, news and criticism website launched in 2007 by Meka Udoh and Joel "Shake" Zela, who were former editors at HipHopDX. [1] [2] The website played a central role in hip hop's blog era of the mid-2000s and early 2010s, a period of growth for non-mainstream outlets as music media transitioned from primarily print and radio-based to online outlets and ...