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This is a list of notable hip hop musicians. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
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Hip-hop or hip hop (formerly known as disco rap) [7] [8] is a genre of popular music that emerged in the early 1970s in New York City. The genre is characterized by stylized rhythmic sounds—often built around disco grooves, electronic drum beats, and rapping, a percussive vocal delivery of rhymed poetic speech as consciousness-raising ...
As hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary on Aug. 11, The Times looks back at the artists, songs and innovations that changed the course of popular culture. The 50 greatest moments in hip-hop history
DJ Hollywood – VH-1 hip hop honoree; rap/hip-hop pioneer; DJ Red Alert – DJ, hip hop pioneer; Kool Moe Dee – old-school rapper and one-third of the Treacherous Three; Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock – rap duo best known for their hit "It Takes Two" Dave East – rapper (Mass Appeal Records) Famous Dex – rapper [76]
Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [68] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...
At the time of hip-hop's inception, the Bronx had the highest poverty rate of not just New York City, but of all 62 counties in New York state. Fifty years later, it holds that same status.
This is a list of American hip-hop musicians from New York City, New York This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .