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Hieroglyphics, also known as the Hieroglyphics Crew and Hiero, is an American underground hip hop collective based in Oakland, California.It was founded in the early 1990s by rapper Del the Funky Homosapien.
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50 Cent was named the number-one Rap Songs artist of the 2000s by Billboard. Hot Rap Songs is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard which ranks the most popular hip hop songs in the United States. Introduced by the magazine as the Hot Rap Singles chart in March 1989, the chart was initially based solely on reports from a panel of selected record stores of weekly ...
Stetsasonic is an American hip hop band. Formed in 1981 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Stetsasonic was one of the first hip hop acts to perform with a full band and use live instrumentation in their recordings, paving the way for future hip hop bands such as The Roots.
Although the production was derided by some critics as a "dull musical backdrop", [10] Let's Get Free was called a "return to politically conscious rap". [11] Rolling Stone gave the album four stars and lauded its equation of "classrooms with jail cells, the projects with killing fields and everything from water to television with conduits for brainwashing by the system".
Freestyle, [10] or Latin freestyle [4] (initially called Latin hip hop) is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the New York metropolitan area, Philadelphia, and Miami, primarily among Black Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Italian Americans. An important precursor to freestyle is 1982's "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa & Soul ...
Hip hop singles from any year which charted in the 2006 Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 [1] Song Artist Project Peak position "Ridin'" Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone: The Sound of Revenge: 1 "Grillz" Nelly featuring Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp: Sweatsuit "What You Know" T.I. King: 3 "Where'd You Go" Fort Minor featuring Holly Brook: The Rising ...
According to The Times journalist Peter Paphides, Plastic Beach is a pop and concept album, [26] while AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine said that "Damon's painstaking pancultural pop junk-mining" on the album posits hip hop with Britpop and "accentuates moody texture over pop hooks". [27]