50th Anniversary of Hip Hop: Rap music has dominated the charts while hip hop culture has helped mold the world we currently live in.
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Some artists who came out by decades’ end from Long Island like Rakim, Public Enemy, De La Soul, and A Tribe Called Quest ; sold platinum-plus without compromising their artistry. In fact, Rakim is still regarded as the greatest MC ever. Along with inner-city lyrical assassins KRS-ONE, Big Daddy Kane, and Kool G Rap; they upped the ante on word play while also kicking consciousness and achieving commercial success.
Not to be lost is the fact that music production and computer technology played a major part in hip hop’s global growth. In the beginning artists mostly rhymed over previous generation’s instrumentals by artists like James Brown, as well as breakbeats. The Roland TR-808 drum machine was introduced in 1980, which music producers utilized to provide drum patterns, while loping popular samples over them.
By the beginning of the 1990s talented artists out of California like N.W.A., Compton’s Most Wanted and DJ Quik, were laying down the G Funk-laced sound, while Outkast, Arrested Development, Goodie Mob, Master P, and Juvenile were among those doing the same from the rural South in cities like Atlanta, Louisiana and Richmond, expanding rap’s demographics.
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