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The History of Hip Hop

© Steve Scarbriel

I got an email from a mom requesting information on the history of hip hop for her daughter who was doing a research paper for school. My first instinct was to suggest she browse my collection of hip hop history links and imagine my surprise when I realized I didn't have a collection of hip hop history links. So here it is, better late than never, Hip Hop Suite 101's collection of links on the history of hip hop music, culture and politics. I want to thank this mom (who I'll call Cindy) for bringing this to my attention. And please, if you see me sleepin' on anything else, let me know and if it's humanly possible, I'm on it!

A Brief History of Hip-Hop Culture
A brief history of hip hop and the four elements that fuse to create it: emceeing, deejaying, breaking and graffiti. A good place to start for a 5 minute crash course on hip hop culture.

The History Of Rap/Hip Hop
Indepth look at the history of rap and hip hop and describes how it's related to other forms of expression. Includes Definition Of Hip Hop from Afrika Bambatta, Grandmaster Flash and Kool Herc, as well as essays from Davey D and guest columnists on "What is Hip Hop", "What is Rap", "The History of Hip Hop", "Why is Rap So Powerful" and more. From daveyd.com

Hip-Hop: Its Roots and Its Future
Perspective on the roots and future of rap and hip hop with emphasis on  the effects of Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow, the emergence of Gangsta Rap, NWA, Snoop Dogg, and ties in the killings of Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. From mrblunt.com

Life of Notorious Big
Real Audio/Video commentary on how Biggie's life and death affected the rap community. From Beatminerz Radio on 88 Hip Hop. This is one of those links that jumps around, so if you're able to peep it, bookmark it, or better yet, download it.

Professa Rap's Working Hip-Hop Chronology
...with key dates in the overall history of African-American music and themusic industry in general.Compiled by Russell A. Potter, Ph.D. -- a.k.a. Professa RAP.

Rap Music
Breaks rap down into the following categories - What Rap Is, The History Of Rap, The Future Of Rap, Eazy-E: A biography of the Hip-Hop Gangsta's life.

All of these links will be archived here. If you know of any hip hop history links I should add, please forward the title, url and description.

Peace!

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