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