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Old school hip hop
Old school hip hop describes the earliest commercially recorded hip hop music (1979–1984), and the music in the period preceding it from which it was directly descended (see Roots of hip hop). Old school hip hop is said to end around 1983-1984 with the emergence of Run DMC, the first new school hip...
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The Sugarhill Gang
The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group, known mostly for their biggest hit, "Rapper's Delight", the first hip hop single recorded to become a Top 40 hit. The song uses the instrumental track from "Good Times" by Chic as its foundation.
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- 1979
Darryl McDaniels
Darryl "D.M.C." Matthews McDaniels (born May 31, 1964) is an American musician. He is one of the pioneers of hip hop culture and founding members of the legendary hip hop group Run-D.M.C..
McDaniels grew up in Hollis, Queens, New York. He attended...
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- May 31, 1964 (age 45 years)
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The Cold Crush Brothers
The Cold Crush Brothers is a hip hop group that formed in 1978 in the Bronx, New York City, New York, the home of hip hop, during its beginning, alongside other hip hop icons such as Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Afrika Bambaataa & The...
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Arthur Baker
Rockers Revenge was a studio musical project, assembled by producer Arthur Baker. Its initial entry on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, "Walking On Sunshine" (an Eddy Grant composition, featuring vocals by Donnie Calvin) hit #1 on the U.S. dance chart...
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- Apr 22, 1955 (age 54 years)
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C.I.A.
C.I.A. (Cru' in Action!) was a hip hop group, which consisted of K-Dee, Sir Jinx and Ice Cube. The group began playing at parties organized by Dr. Dre, a member of a popular local hip-hop group called World Class Wreckin' Cru. C.I.A. was credited...
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La Familia
La Familia is a Romanian rap group formed in January 1996, three years after Paraziţii, and two years after B.U.G. Mafia, but still early by Romanian hip hop standards. They established a national reputation with a style of gangsta rap similar to B...
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Just-Ice
Just-Ice (born Joseph Williams Jr.) A former bouncer at punk clubs, Ice was one of the first of the New York MCs to embrace hardcore rap, and when he burst out of Fort Greene, Brooklyn, as Just-Ice, he gained instant notoriety. Muscle-bound,...
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- 1962 (age 48 years)
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Fearless Four
The Fearless Four was an old school rap crew from Harlem, New York, best known for their 1982 song "Rockin' It", which was based on the Kraftwerk track "The Man-Machine" and was featured in the 1983 documentary Style Wars. Originally The Fearless...
Cool C
Christopher Roney (born December 15, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), known by the stage name Cool C, is an American rapper whose musical career peaked in the late 1980s. He is perhaps best known today for the notoriety surrounding his...
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- Dec 15, 1969 (age 40 years)
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Pete Rock & CL Smooth
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth were an influential rap group from Mount Vernon, New York. They made their debut in the rap world with their 1991 EP, All Souled Out. It sold moderately well enough to justify Elektra Records clearing the way for 1992's Mecca...
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Man Parrish
Man Parrish (full name Manuel Joseph Parrish, born May 6, 1958) is considered to be one of the pioneers of the electronic music and electro genres. He, along with artists such as Kraftwerk, Art of Noise, Arthur Baker, Afrika Bambaataa, John Robie,...
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- May 6, 1958 (age 51 years)
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Educated Rapper
Educated Rapper (born as Jeffrey Campbell) was a rapperand cofounder of the hip-hop group UTFO, most famous for their song Roxanne, Roxanne. Educated Rapper originally matriculated from City College of New York before UTFO signed their first record...
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Jimmy Spicer
Jimmy Spicer released a number of old school rap singles during the late '70s and early '80s. Spicer was managed by Russell Simmons' Rush Management. His single "The Bubble Bunch" featured Jellybean Benitez's first remix.
This D.J., he gets down,...
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Def P & The Beatbusters
Def P & Beatbusters was a temporary Dutch music group consisting of rapper Def P of the Amsterdam old-school hip-hop band Osdorp Posse and ska band Beatbusters from the rural Betuwe area of The Netherlands.
Def P started his solo career in 1999 with...
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Newcleus
Newcleus is an American electro and old school hip hop group that gained popularity in the early 1980s. They are primarily known for their 12-inch singles "Jam-On's Revenge", re-released as "Jam On Revenge (The Wikki-Wikki Song)" (1983), and "Jam-On...
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Planet Patrol
Planet Patrol is an American electro group from the 1980s. The members were Arthur Baker, John Robie, and a quintet of vocalists led by Herbert J. Jackson: lead singer Joesph Lites, Rodney Butler, Michael Anthony Jones, and the late Melvin Franklin....
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The Sequence
The Sequence is a former female old school hip hop trio signed to the Sugar Hill label in the early-1980s. The group consisted of Cheryl Cook (Cheryl The Pearl), Gwendolyn Chisolm (Blondie), and lead singer/rapper Angie Brown Stone (Angie B.). The...
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Spoonie Gee
Spoonie Gee (born Gabriel Jackson) was the nephew of veteran R&B; producer Bobby Robinson and one of the earliest rap artists.
He recorded for Bobby Robinson's Enjoy! Records and Peter Brown's Sounds Of New York, USA imprint. He sometimes performed...
Davy DMX
Davy DMX is the stage name of David Reeves, a figure in hip-hop music. His career began in his hometown of Queens, New York as a DJ in the late 1970s. He is mostly known for his popular single "One for the Treble" released in 1984. This song was...
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was a highly influential American hip-hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1978. Composed of one DJ (Grandmaster Flash) and five rappers (Melle Mel, Kidd Creole, Cowboy, Mr. Ness/Scorpio, and...
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- 1976
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- 1988
The Egyptian Lover
Greg Broussard (born August 31, 1963 in Los Angeles, California), better known by his stage name Egyptian Lover is an American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ, and was an important part of the L.A. dance music and rap scene in the early 1980s....
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- Aug 31, 1963 (age 46 years)
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Slick Rick
Richard Walters (born 14 January 1965), better known by stage names Slick Rick, MC Ricky D and Rick the Ruler, is a Grammy-nominated British-American rapper.
Originally from South Wimbledon, in Greater London, England, he moved with his family to...
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- Jan 14, 1965 (age 45 years)
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World Class Wreckin' Cru
The World Class Wreckin' Cru was a 1980s Electro-hop group from Compton, California formed by the Eve After Dark nightclub owner and established DJ Alonzo Williams. Other members of the fluctuating lineup included DJ Yella, Dr. Dre, Shakespeare, and...
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- 1988
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MC Tee
Touré Embden (born 1966), known by the stage name MC Tee, is an American emcee and co-founder (with DJ Kurtis Mantronik) of the 1980s old school hip hop and electro funk group Mantronix.
MC Tee was born in Haiti, emigrated with his family to the...
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- 1966 (age 44 years)
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DJ Dee
D.J. Dee, or alternatively, D.J. D, (born: 1969) was an American DJ and briefly a member of the old school hip hop/electro funk/dance music group Mantronix during the group's later years.
D.J. Dee is Kurtis Mantronik's cousin, and appeared on one...
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- 1969 (age 41 years)
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T La Rock
Clarence "Terry" Ronnie Keaton (born September 16, 1961), known by the stage name, T La Rock, is an American old school emcee best known for his collaboration with Def Jam Recordings co-founder Rick Rubin and the 1984 single, "It's Yours." He...
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- Sep 16, 1961 (age 48 years)
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Blak Prophetz
The Blak Prophetz was formed in the mid 1980s in England by the original DJ Sure Shot (Mark Duffus), a DJ, Rapper and Jazz drummer.
The first track known to be released by this band can be found on a rare compilation called "The Wheel Project" which...
Steady B
Warren McGlone (born September 17, 1969 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), known by the stage name Steady B, was an American rapper and emcee who, along with Schoolly D, the Fresh Prince, and Three Times Dope, was one of the first wave of Philadelphia...
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- Sep 17, 1969 (age 40 years)
