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Billboard published a weekly chart in 1974 ranking the top-performing singles in the United States in soul music and related African American-oriented music genres; the chart has undergone various name changes over the decades to reflect the evolution of such genres and since 2005 has been published as Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. [1] In 1974, it was ...
This page indexes the individual year in hip hop music pages. 1970s. 1979 in hip hop music; 1980s. 1980 in hip hop music; 1981 in hip hop music; 1982 in hip hop music
On September 16, 1979, The Sugarhill Gang released the single Rapper's Delight, which became the first commercially successful hip-hop song. It was the first rap song to appear on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching number 37, and peaked at number 4 on the R&B charts. [5] It is often mistaken as the first recorded hip hop song. [1]
Hip hop music can be subdivided into various subgenres, fusions with other genres and regional hip hop scenes. Pages in category "Hip-hop genres" The following 59 pages are in this category, out of 59 total.
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In hip hop music, political hip hop, or political rap, is a form developed in the 1980s, inspired by 1970s political preachers such as The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron. Public Enemy were the first political hip hop group to gain commercial success. [1]