Hip-hop history: A timeline of key events in the music’s early decades The Sugarhill Gang and Blondie, The Fat Boys and Run-D.M.C., Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, have all played pivotal parts ...

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The history of hip-hop and rap in Atlanta: An interactive timeline traces how Atlanta made its central spot and changed the culture forever.

Hip-Hop Is History is Questlove’s attempt to chronicle where hip-hop went—maybe not every place, but surely most of them. It’s a very personal, very loquacious history—written with Ben ...

Hip-Hop Is History is “not an encyclopedia,” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson warns in the opening pages of his fifth book. Instead, the spiritual sequel to his 2021 collection, Music Is History ...

1970: The self-titled debut by New York's The Last Poets is released. The spoken-word-with-music album signals the rap-fueled hip-hop revolution to follow. 1973: At an August Brooklyn house party ...