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11/14/1989 - 3rd Bass releases their debut album " The Cactus Alb/um" On Def Jam Records.

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11/14/1989 - 3rd Bass releases their debut album " The Cactus Alb/um" On Def Jam Records.

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The gold selling set by the white three-man crew of MC Serch, Prime Minister Pete Nice, and Dj Richie Rich, all born in Queens, Long Island, and Jamaica. Produced by the bomb squad and others. Spawned hit singles such as "Gas Face" which reached #5 on the Rap charts

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11/27/2008 - Soulja Boy Tellem releases the single "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" on Interscope.

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11/27/2008 - Soulja Boy Tellem releases the single "Kiss Me Thru the Phone" on Interscope.

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Peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Rap chart. Sold close to six million digital copies in 2009 which made it the 8th bestselling digital single of the year. Got Platinum certification in Untied Kingdom, and New Zealand, and Gold certification in Australia.

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12/3/1995- 2Pac releases his single California Love ft. Dr. Dre

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12/3/1995- 2Pac releases his single California Love ft. Dr. Dre

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California Love was 2Pac's comeback single after being released from prison in 1995. It was also his first single as the newest artist of Death Row Records. This song was nominated a Grammy Award for best rap performance by a duo or group in 1997. It was certified platinum 2 times in the U.S(2,000,000 sales physically; 2,404,000 sold digitally) ,once in the U.K(600,000 sales)and New Zealand.

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12/9/2006- ESPN airs the Muhammad Ali documentary: Ali Rap.

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12/9/2006- ESPN airs the Muhammad Ali documentary: Ali Rap.

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Josephy Maar the director of this documentary explores the legendary 3-time World Heavyweight Champ's influence on rap/hip-hop culture. It was hosted by public Enemy's Chuck D. Ali Rap includes footage and interviews with people like; Fab Five Freddy, Ludacris, MC Lyte, Doug E. Fresh, etc

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12/24/1994 - The Notorious B.I.G released the single Big Poppa

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12/24/1994 - The Notorious B.I.G released the single Big Poppa

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The song "Big Poppa" Earned Platinum Certification in the U.K (1 time) and in the U.S (7 times), and 1 time gold in the United States Mastertone. It was the second single released from his first studio album "Ready To Die"

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1/10/23 - French Montana threatened with a lawsuit.

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1/10/23 - French Montana threatened with a lawsuit.

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French Montana has been threatened with legal action over a shooting in Miami that left 10 people injured on his set during his music video shoot with Rob49. Four victims were airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center, and one of them was listed as in critical condition. No deaths have been reported.

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James Todd Smith Better known as LL Cool J (Ladies Love Cool James) is an american rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actor. With the success of his hit single " I Need a Beat" LL Cool J became an early hip-hop act to achieve mainstream success with Kurtis Blow, and Run-DMC. He has released a total of 13 studio albums. He has also appeared in a total of 28 movies and 14 T.V shows. He has won 2 grammy's(Nominated for 9) 2 MTV Video Music Awards(Nominated for 4) 4 NAACP Image Awards(Nominated for 4) and 3 Soul Train Music Awards (Nominated for 7).

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1/28/68- Rakim (William Michael Griffin Jr.) was born. 

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1/28/68- Rakim (William Michael Griffin Jr.) was born. 

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Rakim is an American rapper and record producer, he is regarded as one of the most influential and skilled MC's of all time. Rakim is seen as a transformational figure in hip hop for raising the bar for MC technique higher than ever. He helped pioneer the use of internal rhymes and multi syllabic rhymes. Rakim has 3 single studio albums, and 4 studio albums with Eric B.

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2/6/03 - 50 Cent released his sophomore album "Get Rich or Die Tryin'"

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2/6/03 - 50 Cent released his sophomore album "Get Rich or Die Tryin'"

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"Get Rich or Die Tryin" is the debut studio album for 50 cent. It was released by Interscope Records. This album has appearances from artist like Enminem, Young Buck, Nate Dogg, etc. "Get Rich or Die Tryin" debuted and peaked at number 1 on Billboard 200, sold over 872,000 copies in first week of sales. Singles like "In Da Club" and "21 Questions" saw worldwide success, and reached number 1 on Billboard Hot 100. In 2020 this album was certified 9x platinum by the "Recording Industry Association of America". This album is also 6x Platinum in Canada, 4x Platinum in Denmark and the U.K, 3x Platinum in Russia, and New Zealand, 2x Platinum in Australia, and 1x Platinum in Switzerland and Belgium

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2/13/96- 2Pac releases his 4th album "All Eyez On Me"

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2/13/96- 2Pac releases his 4th album "All Eyez On Me"

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All Eyez On Me was his fourth and last album released during the time he was alive. It was released by Death Row , and Interscope Records. The album consisted of 27 songs. The album peaked at number 1 on US Billboard 200 and US Top
R&B/HipHop Albums (billboard). This album was certified "Diamond" in the U.S, "Platinum" by the U.K, New Zealand, Denmark, and Canada, and one time "Gold
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Andre Romell Young, better known as Dr.Dre is an American Rapper and record producer. He is the founder/CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and Beats Electronic. He also previously Co-Owned, Co-Found and was the president of Death Row Records. His first solo debut dropped in 1992 "The Chronic" and it made him one of the best American selling artists of 1993. Dr. Dre has 3 sutdio albums, 2 soundtrack albums, and 6 collaborations albums, 4 with N.W.A and 2 with World Class Wreckin' Cru. Dre has won a Hustler of the year award in 2014, A best rap solo performance in 1994, 2 Best Rap performance by a group or duo, Best rap album, Producer of the year, a Best Rap album, A best rap album, best rap video, and a Outstanding Variety Special (Live) for his super bowl performance in 2022.

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Gimel Androus Keaton better know as "Young Guru" is an American audio engineer, record producer, disc jockey, and record executive. He started off by being a D.J as a teenager. He was a student at Howard University, and saw the early development of Bad Boy Records. In 2019, he won a Grammy Award for Best Urban Contemporary for mixing the album, Everything Is Love by The Carters.

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Anthony Terrell Smith better known as Tone-Lōc is an American Rapper/ Actor/ Record Producer. He debuted his first album in January 1989 named " Lōc-ed After Dark." He released a total of 2 studio album, and 8 total singles. He was nominated for an MTV Video Music Awards, Grammy Awards, American Music Awards. Out of 8 Nominations, he won 1 for Favorite Dance New Artist. He also has many appearances in many movies and T.V shows, the latest in 2022 for the T.V Show The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.

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Christopher George Latore Wallace better known as Notorious B.I.G or Biggie Smalls was an American Rapper. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He dropped 2 Studio Albums, 1 Collab Album, 1 Posthumous Collab Album, and 2 Posthumous compilation albums. He has won awards like The Source Hip-Hop Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, Grammy's, Rock And Roll H.O.F, etc. His death was caused by a black Chevrolet pulling up next to his car and firing shots at his car, and 4 managed to hit him (12:45 AM). He was rushed to the hospital and announced dead at 1:15 AM. He died at age 24.

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William Jonathan Drayton Jr. better known as Flavor Flav is an American Rapper/Hypeman. He was a founding member of the rap group Public Enemy, with Public Enemy, he has earned 6 Grammy Nominations. He also has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame. He has one solo studio album which consists of 20 songs, and it 1:17:13 long. He has many appearances in songs with artists like Ice Cube, Wu Tang Clan, Will Smith, Snoop Dogg, etc. He opened his own restaurant in 2011 with Nico Cimino named Flav's Fried Chicken.

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Eric Lynn Wright better known as Easy-E was an American Rapper who propelled West Coast Rap and gangsta rap by leading N.W.A and Ruthless Records. He was born and raised in Compton, California. He started off as a drug dealer, but after his cousin died he decided to make a better living in the L.A HipHop Scene. He started recording songs during the mid 80's in his parents garage, which was where he started Ruthless Records. On February 24, 1995 Easy- E was admitted to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles with a terrible cough. He was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. He announced to the public on March 16, 1995 that he had AIDS/HIV. A few days before his death, he made amends with Ice Cube to draft a final message to his fans. He sadly passed away March 26th and was buried April 7th 1995, at Rose Hills Memorial Park. He was remembered as the "Godfather of gangsta Rap" and a "rap-pioneer".

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3/31/23 - Rod Wave Released A Single "Fight The Feeling"

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3/31/23 - Rod Wave Released A Single "Fight The Feeling"

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There's nothing on the position on the Billboard Charts or if it has been certified yet.
The official music video currently has 3,702,880 views on YouTube and is #2 on Trending for Music in the span of 6 days.
This was his first release (single or album) since "Jupiter's Diary" on November 18, 2022
The song is about how Women hide their feelings and do things to hide and forget about their mental health, and he raps about what they can do to try and improve it. Kind of like helping a women enter a healing stage in her life.

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Curtis Brown, better known as GrandMaster Caz is an American rapper, Songwriter, and DJ. He was apart of "The Cold Crush Brothers". He was the first rapper to perform both DJ (record) and MC (vocal) duties. He was known as the main writer of the lyrics of Big Bank Hank on "Rapper's Delight" . In 1998, Caz was listed at #11 out of Blaze Magazine's Top 50 MCs of all time. In 1999 he was inducted into the Technics DJ Hall Of Fame. In 2008 he was inducted into the "Bronx Walk Of Fame". April 18,2022 Bronx Borough President, Vanessa Gibson proclaimed April 18 as "GrandMaster Caz Day".

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Q4 #2: Suge Knight Claims Snoop Dogg Fraudulently Purchased Death Row Records. 4/24/23

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Q4 #2: Suge Knight Claims Snoop Dogg Fraudulently Purchased Death Row Records. 4/24/23

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Snoop Dogg became rapper of Death Row Records in February 2022. Suge Claimed that his ex-business partner Michael "Harry-O" Harris committed bankruptcy fraud to get the company from him. Suge Knight said: “But one problem with that is: Snoop has a partner, which is Michael Harris. They committed fraud, they bankruptcy fraud. I didn’t lose my company by doing anything wrong; they went in and the lawyer didn’t show up, and they got a default judgement.”

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Q4 #3: Jack Harlow Claims He's 'The Hardest White Boy' Since Eminem 4/30/23

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Q4 #3: Jack Harlow Claims He's 'The Hardest White Boy' Since Eminem 4/30/23

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After dropping his latest album "Jackman" Jack Harlow claimed to be the hardest white boy to pick up the mic since Eminem. In the song "They Don't Love It" Jack Harlow Argues to be as lyrically talented as Eminem himself. After that claim he received a lot of backlash from twitter, many saying, "No way Jack Harlow just said he's better than Eminem" "Jack Harlow not better than Eminem btw"

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Tony Louis Cotterll better known as Hi-Tek or Tekzilla is an American Rapper and record producer from Cincinnati, Ohio. He started off in a Hip Hop group called Mood and they had a regional hit with "Hustle On the Side". He has released 5 albums. He has also produced some songs for big artists like 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Anderson Paak, etc.

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Edward K Archer, known professionally as Special Ed is an American rapper and producer. He is best known for his songs: "I Got It Made", "Think About It" and "I'm the Magnificent" from his debut album Youngest In Charge released in 1989. He was born in Brooklyn, New York City. He has a total of 4 studio albums with only "Youngest In Charge" peaking top 10 in the Us R&B/HH.

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Aaron Benard Tyler better known as Mc Eiht is an American Rapper and Actor born in Compton, California. A majority of his songs are based on his life in Compton. His stage name was inspired by KRS-One's name. He chose Eiht because it links to "Hood Culture". He is the leader of West Coast Hip Hop group "Compton's most wanted". He grew to fame as 1 of 2 MC's of a four man group "Compton's Most Wanted". He has a total of 17 studio albums, and 3 collab albums. He appeared in 7 movies and even Grand Theft Auto San Andreas as "Ryder" and Grand Theft Auto 5 as a radio guest host.

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Thomas DeCarlo Callaway-Burton known professionally as Cee-Lo/Cee-Lo Green is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer and actor. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia and came to initial prominence as a member of "Goodie Mob". He began his solo career releasing an album in 2002 "Cee-Lo Green and His Imperfections" and in 2004 " Cee-Lo Green.... Is the Soul Machine". His next project after these releases was Gnarls Barkley, a collab with DJ Danger Mouse, these scored a worldwide hit with "Crazy" which reached top 5 in 20 countries. Cee-Lo has 6 solo albums, 2 Gnarls Barkley albums, and 5 albums with Goodie Mob. He has been nominated for awards like BET awards, Billboard Music Awards, Brit Awards, Grammy Award, MOBO Award, MTV Europe Music Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, MTVU Woodie Awards, NAACP Image Awards, NME Awards, Q Awards, Slammy Awards, Soul Train Music Awards, Teen Choice Awards.

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Q4 #8 6/5/23 - Bobby Shmurda doesn't listen to rap because it's "dangerous" to kids. 

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Q4 #8 6/5/23 - Bobby Shmurda doesn't listen to rap because it's "dangerous" to kids. 

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After 7 years of prison, he got candid about his decision to absolve himself to rap during his recent appearance on "The Danza Project" podcast. He claimed that the reason he did this was because it was linked to the younger generation of rappers leading kids astray. “These kids are following you guys, and you’re rapping about these f***ng lifestyles…and it’s very dangerous to the communities [because] these little kids [really] think that [it’s] going on, and you did not even live [any] [of] [it]."
Bobby Shmurda said rap is supposed to uplift people not influence negativity. “Rap is supposed to be telling muthaf***s to go from negative to positive, coming from poverty to go to riches…and how to stay in that and how to change. That’s the s**t that I want to hear. I wanna hear about living life…”

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Kanye Omari West is an American Rapper, Singer, songwriter, song producer, record producer, and fashion designer. He was born in Atlanta, but was raised in Chicago. He is one of the world's best selling music artists, with over 160 million records sold, He has won 24 Grammy's and has been nominated for 75 of them (10th most all time). 6 of his albums were included on Rolling Stone's 2020 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, Rolling Stone also named him one of the 100 greatest songwriters of all time. As a designer he collaborated with big name brands like, Nike, Louis Vuitton, Gap, and A.P.C. His biggest one is leading the "Yeezy" brand with adidas. He has 10 studio albums, 2 collab albums, 1 compilation album, and 1 demo album. He has also written a few books and directed some short films.