Ego Trip's "The (White) Rapper Show" (2007)
Pharrell Williams' In My Mind (2006)
The Game's The Documentary (2004)
Kanye West's The College Dropout (2004)
Little Brother's The Listening (2003)
G-Unit's Beg for Mercy (2003)
Dwele's Subject (2003)
Obie Trice's Cheers (2003)
50 Cent's Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)
Sage Francis' Personal Journals (2002)
Large Professor's 1st Class (2002)
k-os' Exit (2002)
Eminem's 8 Mile (2002)
Talib Kweli's Quality (2002)
J-Live's The Best Part (2001)
D12's Devil's Night (2001)
DJ Qbert's Wave Twisters (2001)
Saul Williams' Amethyst Rock Star (2001)
J Dilla's Welcome 2 Detroit (2001)
Dead Prez' Let's Get Free (2000)
Planet Asia's How the West Was One (2000)
Dilated Peoples' The Platform (2000)
Afu-Ra's Body of the Life Force (2000)
Blackalicious' Nia (2000)
Styles of Beyond's 2000 Fold (2000)
Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP (2000)
Buck 65's Man Overboard (1999)
Aesop Rock's Float (1999)
Ludacris's Incognegro (1999)
Kelis' Kaleidoscope (1999)
Q-Tip's Amplified (1999)
the Roots' Things Fall Apart (1999)
Handsome Boy Modeling School's So... How’s Your Girl (1999)
Arsonists' As The World Burns (1999)
Anticon's Music for the Advancement of Hip-Hop (1999)
Mos Def' Black on Both Sides (1999)
Devin the Dude's The Dude (1998)
John Forté's Poly Sci (1998)
Nate Dogg's G-Funk Classics Vol. 1 & 2 (1998)
Jurassic 5 (1998)
RZA's Bobby Digital In Stereo (1998)
The Freestyler'sWe Rock Hard (1998)
DMX' It's Dark and Hell Is Hot (1998)
Mos Def and Talib Kweli are Black Star (1998)
XXL (1998)
Puff Daddy's No Way Out (1997)
Missy Elliot's Supa Dupa Fly (1997)
World Famous Beat Junkies Volume 1 1997
Mase' Harlem World (1997)
Jedi Mind Tricks' The Psycho-Social, Chemical, Biological & Electro-Magnetic Manipulation of Human Consciousness (1997)
It's Like That remixed by DJ Jason Nevins (1997)
The Notorious B.I.G. (March 9, 1997)
Xzibit's At The Speed of Life (1996)
DJ Shadow's Endtroducing..... (1996)
Tupac Shakur (September 13, 1996)
Foxy Brown's Ill Na Na (1996)
Scribble Jam (1996)
Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt (1996)
wefunk (1996)
Lootpack's Ill Psych Move (1996)
Busta Rhymes' The Coming (1996)
Slum Village's Fantastic, Vol. 1 (1996)
Lil’ Kim's Hard Core (1996)
The Fugees' The Score (1996)
Skee-Lo's I Wish (1995)
Roc-A-Fella Records (1995)
Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (1995)
OutKast's Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994)
Nas' Illmatic (1994)
O.C. 's Word...Life (1994)
Coolio's It Takes a Thief (1994)
Jeru the Damaja's The Sun Rises in the East (1994)
Common's Resurrection (1994)
Warren G's Regulate... G Funk Era (1994)
The Beatnuts (1994)
Nefertiti's L.I.F.E. (1994)
Method Man's Tical (1994)
Mobb Deep's Juvenile Hell (1993)
Bad Boy Records (1993)
Onyx' Bacdafucup (1993)
Digable Planets' Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) (1993)
KRS-One's Return of the Boombap (1993)
Black Moon's Enta Da Stage (1993)
Snoop Doggy Dogg's Doggystyle (1993)
The Alkaholiks' 21 & Over (1993)
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (1993)
Totally Krossed Out (1992)
Arrested Development's 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of... (1992)
Dr. Dre's The Chronic (1992)
Master Ace' Take a Look Around (1992)
Redman's Whut? Thee Album (1992)
Das EFX' Dead Serious (1992)
Diamond & the Psychotic Neurotics' Stunts, Blunts, and Hip-Hop (1992)
Here Come The Lords (1992)
Pete Rock & CL Smooth' Mecca And The Soul Brother (1992)
House of Pain (Fine Malt Lyrics) (1992)
Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde (1992)
German hip hop (early 1990s)
Krumping (early 1990s)
G-funk (early 1990s)
Del tha Funkee Homosapien's I Wish My Brother George Was Here (1991)
Cypress Hill (1991)
The Freestyle Fellowship's To Whom It May Concern (1991)
MC Solaar's Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo (1991)
Organized Konfusion (1991)
Main Source's Breaking Atoms (1991)
Naughty by Nature (1991)
GZA's Words from the Genius (1991)
Black Sheep's A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (1991)
Death Row Records (1991)
Ice Ice Baby (1990)
Digital Underground's Sex Packets (1990)
Ice Cube's AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990)
Brand Nubian's One For All (1990)
Lord Finesse & DJ Mike Smooth' Funky Technician (1990)
A Tribe Called Quest's People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (1990)
MTV Video Music Award for Best Rap Video (1989)
Special Ed's Youngest In Charge (1989)
Kool G Rap and DJ Polo's Road To The Riches (1989)
Rap City (1989)
All Hail the Queen (1989)
Gang Starr's No More Mr. Nice Guy (1989)
3rd Bass' The Cactus Album (1989)
De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising (1989)
Cool C's I Gotta Habit (1989)
N.W.A.'s Straight Outta Compton (1989)
EPMD's Strictly Business (1988)
Long Live the Kane (1988)
Sir Mix-a-Lot's Swass (1988)
Ruff Ryders (1988)
Ultramagnetic MC's Critical Beatdown (1988)
Jovanotti for President (1988)
MC Lyte's Lyte As a Rock (1988)
Kid 'n Play's 2 Hype (1988)
The Source (1988)
Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
The Great Adventures of Slick Rick (1988)
Maestro Fresh Wes' You Can't Stop Us Now (1988)
Jungle Brothers' Straight Out the Jungle (1988)
Yo! MTV Raps (1988-1995)
Uptown Records (late 1980s)
Ice-T's Rhyme Pays (1987)
Scott La Rock (August 27, 1987)
MC Hammer's Feel My Power (1987)
The 2 Live Crew Is What We Are (1987)
DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's Rock the House (1987)
Heavy D & The Boyz' Living Large (1987)
Eric B. & Rakim's Paid in Full (1987)
Schooly D (1986)
Steady B's Bring the Beat Back (1986)
Cameo's Word Up! (1986)
The Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill (1986)
Just Ice' Back to the Old School (1986)
DMC World DJ Championships (1986)
Stetsasonic's On Fire (1986)
Golden age hip hop (1986-1993)
Boogie Down Productions (1986-1993)
Salt 'n' Pepa's Hot, Cool & Vicious (1986)
Doug E. Fresh's The Show/La Di Da Di (1985)
Full Force (1985)
LL Cool J's Radio (1985)
Beat Streat (1984)
Newcleus' Jam-On Revenge (1984)
Breakin' (1984)
the Roxanne Wars (1984-1992)
Run-D.M.C. (1984)
the Fresh Fest concert tour (1984)
Def Jam Recordings (1984)
French hip hop (early 1980s)
Whodini (1983)
Juice Crew (1983-1990)
Style Wars (1983)
Breakin' and Enterin' (1983)
Wild Style (1983)
Herbie Hancock and Grandmaster D.ST's. Rockit (1983)
Kool Moe Dee vs.Chief Rocker Busy Bee Starski (early 1980s)
West Coast hip hop (early 1980s)
Afrika Bambaataa's Planet Rock (1982)
The Message (1982)
Latin rap (early 1980s)
Grandmaster Flash's Adventures on the Wheels of Steel (1981)
The Funky Four Plus One appeared on Saturday Night Live (1981)
The Cold Crush Brothers vs. The Fantastic Five (July 3, 1981)
the Soul Sonic Force's Zulu Nation Throwdown (1980)
Kurtis Blow (1980)
The Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight (1979)
Spoonie Gee's Spoonin' Rap (1979)
"King Tim III (Personality Jock)'" is a (1979) song by the Fatback Band from the disco album XII. Released
a few months before "Rapper's Delight" (which is often cited as the first commercially released hip hop song), his
song has become perhaps the band's most famous and influential and is often cited as the beginning of recorded hip hop
the Technics SL-1200MK2 (1978)
the Rock Steady Crew (1977)
breaking (70s)
the ghetto blaster (70s)
Lovebug Starski coined the term hip hop
Emceeing evolved from party shouts (1975) like "'Kool Herc is in the house and he'll turn it out without a doubt"
Electric boogaloo (1975)
Grandmaster Flash pioneered deejaying, cutting, and mixing
Sugar Hill Records (1974)
Afrika Bambaataa reorganized "The Organization" and renamed it to the "Zulu Nation" (1974)
Kool Herc (1973) deejayed his first block party
Popping (1970s)
Afrika Bambaataa (1970) started deejaying
James Brown's Say It Loud -- I'm Black and Proud!, Funky Drummer (1969, 1970)
Uprock (1968) was developed by Rubberband Man and Apache
Good Foot (late 1960s)
Locking (late 1960s)
Funk (mid 1960s)