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August 13, 2023
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Cypress Hill Drop Self-Titled Debut Album – Today in Hip-Hop

[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:Aug. 13, 1991: The legendary rap trio Cypress Hill dropped, on this day, their eponymous debut album.For B-Real of Cypress Hill, the "Eureka!" moment occurred when he decided to pitch-up his vocal delivery. In Ice-T's documentary, From Something To Nothing: The Art Of Rap, B-Real spoke of being relegated to ghostwriter's duty for the group because his voice wasn't strong enough to carry a song by his own. However, when he decided to change to pitch his voice into a nasally, hyperkinetic delivery, it worked and several million records sold later, Cypress Hill remains one of hip-hop's most beloved hip-hop groups of the 1990s.Cypress Hill's...

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August 13, 2023
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Kendrick Lamar Calls Out Rappers on ‘Control’ – Today in Hip-Hop

[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:Aug. 12, 2013: Kendrick Lamar had the rap game shook with his blistering verse on Big Sean's song "Control," which was released on this day in 2013.Ten years ago, Hot 97 personality Funkmaster Flex premiered Big Sean's new track "Control," which featured Kendrick and Jay Electronica, on his radio show and it went viral. On the song, K-Dot made a bold declaration that he is the "King of New York" which raised many eyebrows that evening and was the chatter on social media."I'm in a destruction mode if the gold exists/I'm important like the Pope, I'm a Muslim on pork/I'm Makaveli’s offspring, I’m...

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August 12, 2023
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DJ Kool Herc Throws a Party That Begins Hip-Hop’s Takeover

[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Aug. 11, 1973: On this day, DJ Kool Herc and his sister Cindy Campbell hosted the first Rec Room Party in the basement at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in the Morris Heights area in the Bronx, N.Y. The event and location would become the pivotal moment that gave birth to hip-hop.It was mid-August in 1973, when a young, ambitious Clive Campbell, better known as DJ Kool Herc, was hired to spin records at his sister's back-to-school party in the Bronx. He used two turntables to extend the instrumental breaks of songs, which his friends began to rap over. This simple innovation is credited...

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August 8, 2023
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Juvenile’s ‘Slow Motion’ Hits No. 1 on Hot 100 – Today in Hip-Hop

[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:Aug. 7, 2004: Juvenile's Soulja Slim-assisted single, "Slow Motion," officially becomes the New Orleans rapper's biggest hit since "Back That Azz Up" when it reaches the summit of the Billboard Hot 100 chart on this day in 2004."Slow Motion" is a track produced by Dani Kartel that was originally released on Juvenile's 2003 album Juve the Great. The song features a slow, smoky guitar and a Southern drawl from Juve and the late rapper Soulja Slim. The 4-minute tune is about the seductive motion of curvaceous women when they are dancing in the clubs."Ughh! I like it like that/She working that back, I don't...

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August 6, 2023
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Yo! MTV Raps TV Show Premieres – Today in Hip-Hop

[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:Aug. 6, 1988: During the 1980s, the cultural landscape of MTV was dramatically different and we are not talking about a severe lack of reality-TV programming the channel feeds us today. For Black artists, it was often difficult if not impossible to get their videos played on the music channel. If you were not Michael Jackson, Prince or had obvious rock influences, you were unwanted on the station. And if you were hip-hop? Forget it. You were persona non grata. But that all changed in the summer of 1988 when, on this day, in 1988, Yo! MTV Raps  premiered on the air.Yo! MTV Raps was created by...

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August 3, 2023
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Suge Knight Disses Diddy at The Source Awards – Today in Hip-Hop

[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:Aug. 3, 1995: On this infamous day, in 1995, Death Row Records honcho Marion "Suge" Knight takes the stage at the 2nd annual Source Awards with label artist Danny Boy and dissed Bad Boy Records founder Sean "Puffy" Combs.At the awards ceremony in New York City, Suge and his entourage accepted the award for Soundtrack of the Year for the phenomenal Above the Rim soundtrack. In his speech, the towering music executive encouraged artists who were unhappy with their labels to jump ship."Any artist out there that want to be an artist and want to stay a star, and don't have to worry about...

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August 2, 2023
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Raekwon Drops Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Album – Today in Hip-Hop

[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:Aug. 1, 1995: On this day, in 1995, Raekwon delivered a visual album that changed the rap game. The word "classic" often gets thrown around a lot like a beach ball at a music festival, but when talking about Raekwon's debut album, the term is apropos. In short, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...

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August 1, 2023
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Swizz Beatz Marries Alicia Keys – Today in Hip-Hop

[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:July 31, 2010: Kaseem "Swizz Beatz" Dean and Alicia Keys were officially married on this day in 2010.The hip-hop couple reportedly met in their teens, but didn't have a romantic relationship with one another until 2008. After finalizing his tumultuous divorce with R&B singer Mashonda Tifrere that year, the veteran hip-hop producer took his friendship with the Grammy award-winning songstress to the next level and began dating publicly.According to reports, Swizz proposed to Alicia one day before her 29th birthday in January of 2010. During their Hawaiian vacation, the Bronx, N.Y. hitmaker proposed with a seven-carat diamond ring. The two New York City natives married one another at a private...

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July 29, 2023
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EPMD Drop Business Never Personal Album – Today in Hip-Hop

[ad_1] July 28, 1992: On this day in 1992, EPMD solidified their position as one of hip-hop’s traditional groups with the release of their fourth studio album, Business Never Personal.Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith proved their commercial and artistic viability on Business Never Personal. Backed by funky beats, innovative nods to the Zapp/Roger Troutman catalog, and their no-nonsense rhymes, EPMD stuck to pure hip-hop in every sense. Their trademark sound is cohesive throughout the 11-track offering, which had plenty to keep fans' heads bobbing.The duo addressed rappers who "sell their souls to gold" on "Crossover," while the Long Island anthem "Boon Dox" still measures up even today. In other areas of the...

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