The "Pioneers" of the Hip Hop culture are the ones that started it all. To name the most influencial people in hip hop here they are: Afrika Bambaataa the "godfather of Hip hop", The Beastie Boys (the first major all white hip hop crew), Beat Junkies, Davey D, Doug E. Fresh, Dynamic Rockers/Dynamic Breakers, the Electric Boogaloos, Eminem, Fab 5 Freddy, Cypress Hill, Fubu, Sugar Hill Gang, the Fugees, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmixer DXT, MC Hammer, Hype Williams, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Jay-Z, Karl Kani, Kool Herc, KRS-One, Kurtis Blow, Marley Marl, Master P, LL Cool J, Missy Elliott, NOGA, Native Tongues, New York City Breakers, Notorious B.I.G., NWA, P. Diddy, Public Enemy, Queen Latifah, Rakim, Rock Steady Crew, The Roots, Run-DMC, Russell Simmons, Salt-n-Pepa, Snoop Dogg, TAKI 183, Tupac Shakur, UGA, Will Smith, Wu-Tang Clan, and X-Ecutioners. Now this is a VERY long list of Hip Hops Finest, but I felt if I was going to go through the process of comparing some of them to all new Hip hop stars then I would need the best, and that included all of them. Out of these about 49 Hip Hop legends about 6 are still putting out recent records and kids in highschool and younger would know (as a generalized statement) only about these 6. Is there a specific reason (besides death) that only a select few are still going strong in the hip hop industry? It could be because they changed their old school ways to fit the audience now. I will look at that further.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Back in the Day...
The "Pioneers" of the Hip Hop culture are the ones that started it all. To name the most influencial people in hip hop here they are: Afrika Bambaataa the "godfather of Hip hop", The Beastie Boys (the first major all white hip hop crew), Beat Junkies, Davey D, Doug E. Fresh, Dynamic Rockers/Dynamic Breakers, the Electric Boogaloos, Eminem, Fab 5 Freddy, Cypress Hill, Fubu, Sugar Hill Gang, the Fugees, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmixer DXT, MC Hammer, Hype Williams, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Jay-Z, Karl Kani, Kool Herc, KRS-One, Kurtis Blow, Marley Marl, Master P, LL Cool J, Missy Elliott, NOGA, Native Tongues, New York City Breakers, Notorious B.I.G., NWA, P. Diddy, Public Enemy, Queen Latifah, Rakim, Rock Steady Crew, The Roots, Run-DMC, Russell Simmons, Salt-n-Pepa, Snoop Dogg, TAKI 183, Tupac Shakur, UGA, Will Smith, Wu-Tang Clan, and X-Ecutioners. Now this is a VERY long list of Hip Hops Finest, but I felt if I was going to go through the process of comparing some of them to all new Hip hop stars then I would need the best, and that included all of them. Out of these about 49 Hip Hop legends about 6 are still putting out recent records and kids in highschool and younger would know (as a generalized statement) only about these 6. Is there a specific reason (besides death) that only a select few are still going strong in the hip hop industry? It could be because they changed their old school ways to fit the audience now. I will look at that further.
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