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Hammer - Let's Get It Started
CL Smooth - Reminisce Over You
Kurtis Blow - If I Ruled The World
Erick Sermon/Marvin Gaye - Music
Kool Moe Dee - How Cool Can...
Eric B and Rakim: I Ain't No Joke
EPMD - You Gots to Chill
Slick Rick - Children's Story
Stop t/Violence -Self-Destruction
Boogie Down Prod - My Philosophy
D-Nice - Call Me D-Nice
Public Enemy - Fight The Power
Craig Mack - Flava In Ya Ear
2Pac - Dear Mama
Bone Thugs - Crossroads
Kid 'N Play - Rollin' w/ Kid 'N Play
Heavy D - We Got Our Own Thang
Fat Boys - All You Can Eat
Roxanne Shante'- Rox's Revenge
Salt n Pepa - Tramp
Mase - Welcome Back
Baha Men - Who Let The Dogs Out
Will Smith - Miami
Will Smith - Wild Wild West
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throwback facts:
Kurtis Blow is the first hip hop artist to appear on national television. He performed "The Breaks" on Soul Train.
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Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force releases "Planet Rock" on Tommy Boy records in May of 1982, the first big techno-funk hit with the Kraftwerk's "Trans Euro Express" beat. (620,000 copies sold in the US alone).
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five released "The Message" in June of 1982 on Sugar Hill Records which peaked at #4 on the music charts.
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Originally known as the Disco 3, Brooklynites Mark "Prince Markie Dee" Morales, Damon "Kool Rockski" Wimbley, and Darren "Buff the Human Beat Box" Robinson won a talent contest at Radio City Music Hall in 1983, thanks in part to Robinson's talent for using his mouth to improvise hip-hop rhythms and a variety of sound effects aka "Beatboxin"
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Breakdancing (as the media calls it) went global via Lionel Richie's performance at the Closing Ceremony of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
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The movie "Beat Street" by Harry Belafonte was released in 1984 which featured Kool Herc, Doug E. Fresh, Kool Moe Dee. Legendary B-Boy battle at the Roxy with Rock Steady Crew and NYC Breakers was the highlight of the film.
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Marly Marl brought Big Daddy Kane out, who started as a ghostwriter for several rappers. BDK ran with the Juice Crew (DJ Mister Cee, Scoob & Scrab Lover). Big Daddy Kane emerged as hip-hop's first sex symbol.
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