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Created by The Core DJ's Jul 6, 2014 at 4:18pm. Last updated by The Core DJ's Jul 6, 2014.

Amazing time to be growing up watching history be made with every new song released.....

 

A History of key events in RnB & Hip Hop

 

DJ Kool Herc DJs his first block party (his sister's birthday) at 1...

Was DJ Hollywood the first rapper?

Grand Wizard Theodore accidentally invents scratching (or does he?)

New Edition reinvent the boy band

Rapper's Delight takes rap music global

Kurtis Blow appears on Soul Train

The first hip-hop movie

Def Jam Records launched by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin

Ice T helps pioneer gangsta rap on the west coast with his rapcore ...

The Roxanne wars

Schoolly D puts out the first gangsta rap record

Janet Jackson releases Control

The Beastie Boys prompt moral outrage in UK

The SP-1200 sampler changes everything

Eric B and Rakim record Paid in Full in a week

NWA release Straight Outta Compton

Marley Marl becomes the first super-producer, due to In Control, Vo...

Spike Lee and Michael Jordan do their deal with Nike

Derek B is the first UK rap star

Bobby Brown becomes R&B's first superstar

Hip-hop finally hits MTV with Yo! MTV Raps

De La Soul's Three Feet High and Rising moves hip-hop into the Dais...

The 2 Live Crew are arrested

Ice Ice Baby appears and rap goes pop

Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Gang Starr release Step in the Arena

Suge Knight takes gangsta rap literally and founds Death Row Records

Hip-hop cinema is born with the release of Ernest Dickerson's Juice

Bill Clinton's Sister Souljah moment tops year of political controv...

SWV and En Vogue herald the rebirth of the girl group

Dre's The Chronic and the ascent of the west coast

Sean Combs founds Bad Boy and releases Biggie's debut

Hype Williams reinvents video with Busta's Woo-Hah

Tupac and Biggie die as a result of east/west coast beef

Missy Elliott breaks the female MC mould with Super Duper Fly

R Kelly's I Believe I Can Fly wins three Grammys

Juvenile goes quadruple platinum

Lauryn Hill, the mystery

Def Jux marks the beginning of backpacker hip-hop

Eminem releases My Name Is

Aaliyah dies

OutKast hit their peak

Grime's 100 Club Moment

Beyoncé goes solo, Crazy in Love goes global

Jay-Z becomes president of Def Jam

J Dilla dies

Three Six Mafia win an Oscar

Kanye v 50 Cent

Lil Wayne leads hip-hop into the internet age

 

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