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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. [2]
These are the Billboard Hot Dance/Disco Club Play and Maxi-Singles Sales number-one ... "Real Hip Hop" Das EFX [75] [76 ... C+C Music Factory featuring A.S.K. M.E ...
Madonna is the most successful dance music artist of all time. Billboard magazine has published charts ranking the top-performing dance music songs in the United States since 1974. Originally a top-ten list of tracks that garnered the largest audience response in New York City discothèques , the chart began on October 26, 1974, under the title ...
Issue date Club Song Artist Maxi-Singles Sales Artist Reference(s) January 6 "Beautiful Life" Ace of Base "Missing" Everything But The Girl [1] [2]January 13 "If I Were You"
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 ...
These are the Billboard Hot Dance/Disco Club Play and 12 Inch Singles Sales number-one hits of 1986. ... 1986 in music; List of number-one dance hits (United States)
The Dance Club Songs (also known as National Disco Action, Hot Dance/Disco Club Play, and Hot Dance Club Play) was a chart published weekly between 1976 and 2020 by Billboard magazine. It used club disc jockeys set lists to determine the most popular songs being played in nightclubs across the United States.
Chuck Philips, Los Angeles Times, 1992 Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of inner-city American black youths. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word gangster. The genre was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Schoolly D and Ice-T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like N.W.A. In 1985 Schoolly D released "P ...