Key hip hop eras, pioneering artists, and landmark releases from its origins through the modern mainstream era.
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- Which DJ pioneered the breakbeat technique and is credited with originating hip hop in the Bronx in the 1970s?
- DJ Kool Herc
- What cultural organization, founded in 1973, established the four elements of hip hop culture?
- Zulu Nation
- Grandmaster Flash is famous for pioneering which turntable technique?
- Scratching
- What was the first commercially successful hip hop single, released by the Sugarhill Gang in 1979?
- Rapper's Delight
- Name the DJ crew that performed 'The Message' in 1982, a landmark socially conscious hip hop track.
- Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel (or Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)
- Which rap group brought hip hop mainstream in the 1980s by wearing shell-toe Adidas sneakers as a signature look?
- Run-D.M.C.
- LL Cool J's breakthrough 1985 album shares a title with which fabric?
- Radio (Radio is the album title)
- Rakim is regarded as pioneering which crucial element of rap in the late 1980s?
- Internal rhyming and complex lyrical structure
- Public Enemy's landmark 1989 album is titled 'It Takes a Nation of...' what?
- Millions
- N.W.A stands for 'Niggaz with Attitude.' From which city did this group originate?
- Compton, California
- Dr. Dre's 1992 solo album 'The Chronic' is named after slang for what substance?
- Marijuana (cannabis)
- Snoop Dogg's debut album 'Doggystyle' was produced by which legendary music producer?
- Dr. Dre
- 2Pac's 1996 double album 'All Eyez on Me' was released during which coast's hip hop dominance period?
- West Coast
- Which East Coast rapper released the album 'Ready to Die' in 1994?
- The Notorious B.I.G. (also Biggie Smalls)
- The East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry primarily occurred during which decade?
- 1990s