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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.”
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 ...
B Wise; B Young; B-Legit; B-Lovee; B-Real; B-Tight; B'Flow; B. Cooper; B. Dolan; B. Smyth; B.G. B.G., the Prince of Rap; B.G. Knocc Out; B.o.B [1]; Baauer; Baba Saad ...
[39] [40] Hip hop scholar Michael Eric Dyson stated, "during the golden age of hip hop, from 1987 to 1993, Afrocentric and black nationalist rap were prominent", [41] and critic Scott Thill described the time as "the golden age of hip hop, the late '80s and early '90s when the form most capably fused the militancy of its Black Panther and Watts ...
When I started rapping, there were no hip-hop artists with a 40-year career. Now, there are tons of us hopefully serving as examples to young artists who want to start making hip-hop music.
Billboard initially created a list of the 10 greatest rappers of all time in November 2015, with the top position held by The Notorious B.I.G. [1] The publication revised their rankings in 2023, via a partnership with Vibe, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip hop.
Billboard Decade-End is a series of music charts reflecting the most popular artists, albums, and songs in the United States throughout a decade. [1] Billboard first published a decade-end ranking in the 1980s, based on the magazine reader's votes, with Madonna becoming the Pop Artist of the Decade.
Hot Rap Artists [78] 1 Top Billboard 200 Album Artists [79] 64 Top R&B Album Artists [80] 20 Hot 100 Singles Artists [81] 45 Cashbox: Top New Groups [82] 4 1996 All We Got Iz Us: CMJ New Music Monthly: The 25 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 1995 17 2014 #WakeDaFucUp: XXL: The 25 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2014 – 2020 SnowMads: Rap.Ru Russia