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The original Rap Olympics showcase was held at club Zanzibar in Newark NJ in 1993. A different version was first held October 24, 1997, in Los Angeles near LAX airport. The winner of the event would receive $500 and a Rolex watch. [1] In 1997, the rapper Otherwize won, with Eminem coming in second place.
Old-school hip hop (also spelled old skool) (also known as disco-rap) is the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music and the original style of the genre. It typically refers to the music created around 1979 to 1983, [ 1 ] as well as any hip hop that does not adhere to contemporary styles.
Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard that ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States. 77 songs topped Hot Rap Songs in the 2010s. The first number-one song of the decade was " Empire State of Mind " by Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys . [ 1 ]
The University of Arkansas (U of A, UArk, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States. [4] It is the flagship [5] campus of the University of Arkansas System. Founded as Arkansas Industrial University in 1871, classes were first held in 1872, with its present name adopted in 1899.
With hip hop having greatly increased in mainstream popularity in the late 1980s, Billboard introduced the chart in their March 11, 1989 issue under the name Hot Rap Singles. [1] [2] Prior to the addition of the chart, hip hop music had been profiled in the magazine's "The Rhythm & the Blues" column and disco-related sections, while some rap ...
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List of top ten albums with the highest first-week Number Album Artist 1st-week sales 1st-week position 1 The Eminem Show: Eminem: 1,322,000 1 2 Nellyville: Nelly: 714,000 1 3 8 Mile OST: Various Artists 702,000 1 4 The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse: Jay-Z: 545,000 1 5 Better Dayz: 2Pac: 366,000 5 6 Under Construction: Missy Elliott ...
In The A.V. Club, Nathan Rabin said the record was "an uneven if worthwhile" album whose best songs "strip gangsta rap of its superthug bravado and replace it with a more nuanced understanding of the human emotions behind the gangsta facade". [13] Q called it "the epitome of mainstream hip hop" at the time. [9] Vol. 2...