The History of Hip Hop

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• Who is widely credited with helping launch hip hop culture by isolating and extending the breakbeats at his 1973 Bronx…
• Which 1979 recording is generally regarded as the first major commercially successful hip hop single?
• Which group released the politically charged song “The Message” in 1982?
• Which album, released in 1988, became a landmark of West Coast gangsta rap and featured the song “F*** tha Police”?
• DJ Kool Herc held his influential back-to-school party on August [____], 1973, at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx.
• Afrika Bambaataa organized the influential hip hop collective and cultural movement known as the [____].
• Run-D.M.C.'s 1986 album that helped bring hip hop into the mainstream was titled [____].
• The 1988 album [____] by Public Enemy is known for its dense production and confrontational political themes.