The hip-hop revolution

In every era, there have been those unique personalities who have had the innate ability to recognize talent, nurture it and transform it into something that same pedestal are the composers, who are the foundation of Black music. Those combined talents came to the forefront during the birth of the hip-hop culture, which has dramatically influenced millions around the world.

2 Live Crew 50 Cent A Tribe Called Quest Afrika Bambaata Baby Big Daddy Kane Bow Wow Busta Rymes Common Da Brat De La Soul Dead Prez Diddy Digital Underground DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince DJ Kool Luk DMX Doug E. Fresh E40 EPMD Eric B. & Rakim Eve The Fat Boys Foxy Brown Fugees Gang Starr The Geto Boys Grand Master Flash & the Furious 5 Heavy D & The Boyz Ice Cube Ice-T Ja Rule Jay-Z Juvenile Kool Mo Dee Kurtis Blow KRS1 The Last Poets Lil' Jon Lil' Kim Lil' Wayne LL Cool J Ludacris Mase Master P MC Hammer MC Lyre Missy Elliott Mob Deep Mos Def Nas Naughty By Nature Nelly The Notorious B.I.G. NWA OutKast Public Enemy The Roots Run DMC Salt 'n Pepa Scarface Sean Paul Slick Rick Snoop Dogg The Sugar Hill Gang Talib Kweli Three 6 Mafia T.I. Tupac Shakur Twista Queen Latifah Kanye West Whoodini Wu Tang Clan

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