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Record labels based out of Atlanta, St. Louis, and New Orleans also gained fame for their local scenes. The midwest rap scene was known for fast vocal styles from artists such as Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Tech N9ne, and Twista. By the end of the decade, hip-hop was an integral part of popular music, and many American pop songs had hip-hop components.
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 ...
Harlem’s Kurtis Blow became the first rapper signed to a major label in 1979 when Mercury issued his holiday novelty “Christmas Rappin’,” followed the next year by his self-titled debut album.
S. Carter Records; Select Records; Selfmade Records; Shady Records; Sho'nuff Records; Sleeping Bag Records; Slip-N-Slide Records; Smoke-A-Lot Records; So So Def Recordings
Nalgenes and CamelBaks were the big-brand water bottles up until 2015, but it wasn’t a big deal if you did or didn’t have one. Then came S’well, which offered more than 200 size-and-color ...
Hip-hop was born in the Bronx amid poverty, despair. 50 years later, there's pride, still hard times
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Rap's roots lie in the toasting traditions of Jamaica's sound-system live events, where DJs thrilled crowds with deliveries evolved in part from America's jive-talking radio stars.