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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.
Pages in category "History of hip-hop" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. ... Old-school hip-hop; R. Rap opera; Kool DJ Red Alert; S.
The new school of hip-hop was the second wave of hip-hop music, originating in 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D.M.C. and LL Cool J. As with the hip-hop preceding it (which subsequently became known as old-school hip hop), the new school came predominantly from New York City.
A key part of recorded hip-hop’s early years of relying heavily on session musicians for backing tracks, bassist Larry Smith played on early ‘80s classics including “The Breaks.”
Golden age hip hop (the mid-1980s to early '90s) [74] was the time period where hip-hop lyricism went through its most drastic transformation – writer William Jelani Cobb says "in these golden years, a critical mass of mic prodigies were literally creating themselves and their art form at the same time" [75] and Allmusic writes, "rhymers like ...
5. Muffin walloper. Used to describe: An older, unmarried woman who gossips a lot. This colorful slang was commonly used in the Victorian era to describe unmarried old ladies who would gossip ...
Nine Inch Nails – Sole constant member Trent Reznor chose the name because it "could be abbreviated easily" and denied the name had any "literal meaning". [228] Nine Stories (Lisa Loeb And...) – Named after the J.D. Salinger book of short stories of that name; Loeb, an English major, wanted a literary moniker. [229]
Chuck D was one of hip-hop’s elder statesmen even before the genre was old enough to have them: born in 1960, he witnessed its birth in the boroughs of New York in 1973, released his first album ...