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85 relations: Adidas Superstar, Afrika Bambaataa, Amplifier, Apache (instrumental), Audubon Ballroom, Babe Ruth (band), Beat Street, Bongo Rock, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, Break (music), Breakbeat, Breakdancing, Can't Stop Won't Stop (book), Coke La Rock, Colony of Jamaica, Crack cocaine, Dance hall, Dance parade, Deejay (Jamaican), Dig Your Own Hole, Disc jockey, Disco, DJ Kool, DJ Premier, Enjoy Records, Funk, Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine, Give It Up or Turnit a Loose, Grand Mixer DXT, Grand Wizzard Theodore, Grandmaster Caz, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Hercules, Hip hop music, Hip-O Records, History Detectives, Incredible Bongo Band, Jamaican Americans, James Brown, Jeff Chang (journalist), Jimmy Castor, Kidney stone disease, Kingston, Jamaica, Kurtis Blow, Manhattan, Master of ceremonies, MC Jin, Melle Mel, Mitchell-Lama Housing Program, ..., Nelson George, New York (magazine), New York (state), New York City, Orion Pictures, Police Athletic League, Rapper's Delight, Rapping, Refrain, Russell Simmons, Scratching, Sex Machine (album), Smithsonian Institution, Sound system (Jamaican), St Barnabas Hospital (Bronx), Stent, Steven Hager, Substantial (rapper), Super Bad (Terminator X album), Sylvia Robinson, Terminator X, The Bronx, The Chemical Brothers, The Emcee's Properganda, The Mexican (song), The New York Times, The New York Times Company, The Source, The Sugarhill Gang, Time (magazine), Time Inc., Universal Zulu Nation, William Howard Taft High School (New York City), Winley Records, 1520 Sedgwick Avenue. Expand index (35 more) »
Adidas Superstar
The Superstar is a low-top shoe manufactured by athletic goods company Adidas since 1969.
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Afrika Bambaataa
Afrika Bambaataa (born Lance Taylor; April 17, 1957) is an American disc jockey, singer, songwriter and producer from the South Bronx, New York.
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Amplifier
An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the power of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current).
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Apache (instrumental)
"Apache" is an instrumental written by English composer Jerry Lordan.
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Audubon Ballroom
The Audubon Theatre and Ballroom, generally referred to as the Audubon Ballroom, was a theatre and ballroom located at 3940 Broadway at West 165th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
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Babe Ruth (band)
Babe Ruth are a rock band from Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.
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Beat Street
Beat Street is a 1984 American drama dance film featuring New York City hip hop culture of the early 1980s, breakdancing, DJ-ing and graffiti.
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Bongo Rock
"Bongo Rock" is a rock and roll instrumental written and recorded by Preston Epps.
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Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Booker T. & the M.G.'s is an instrumental R&B/funk band that was influential in shaping the sound of Southern soul and Memphis soul.
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Break (music)
In popular music, a break is an instrumental or percussion section during a song derived from or related to stop-time – being a "break" from the main parts of the song or piece.
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Breakbeat
Breakbeat is a broad style of electronic or dance-oriented music which utilizes breaks, often sampled from earlier recordings in funk, jazz and R&B, for the main rhythm.
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Breakdancing
Breakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance.
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Can't Stop Won't Stop (book)
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation is a book by Jeff Chang chronicling the early hip hop scene.
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Coke La Rock
Coke La Rock (aka Coco La Rock) (born April 25, 1955) is an old school New York City rapper who is often credited as being the first MC in the history of hip-hop.
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Colony of Jamaica
Jamaica was an English colony from 1655 (when it was captured by the English from Spain) or 1670 (when Spain formally ceded Jamaica to the English), and a British Colony from 1707 until 1962, when it became independent.
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Crack cocaine
Crack cocaine, also known simply as crack, is a free base form of cocaine that can be smoked.
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Dance hall
Dance hall in its general meaning is a hall for dancing.
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Dance parade
Dance Parade is non-profit organization that promotes dance as an expressive and unifying art from by showcasing all forms of dance.
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Deejay (Jamaican)
In Jamaican music, a deejay (DJ) is a reggae or dancehall musician who sings and "toasts" to an instrumental riddim.
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Dig Your Own Hole
Dig Your Own Hole is the second studio album by English electronic music duo the Chemical Brothers.
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Disc jockey
A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.
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Disco
Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.
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DJ Kool
John W. Bowman Jr. (born 1958), better known by his stage name DJ Kool, is an American DJ and rapper who produced several popular rap singles in the late 1980s.
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DJ Premier
Christopher Edward Martin (born March 21, 1966), known professionally as DJ Premier (also known as Preemo), is an American record producer and DJ, and was half of the hip hop duo Gang Starr—alongside the emcee Guru—and forms half of the hip hop duo PRhyme, together with Royce da 5'9".
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Enjoy Records
Enjoy Records was a record label owned and operated by Bobby Robinson from 1962 through the mid-1980s, and was run out of his record shop at 125th Street and 8th Ave.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).
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Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine
"Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine" is a song recorded by James Brown with Bobby Byrd on backing vocals.
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Give It Up or Turnit a Loose
"Give It Up or Turnit a Loose" is a funk song recorded by James Brown.
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Grand Mixer DXT
GrandMixer DXT is an American musician.
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Grand Wizzard Theodore
Theodore Livingston (born March 5, 1963), better known as Grand Wizzard Theodore, is an American hip hop DJ.
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Grandmaster Caz
Curtis Fisher (born April 18, 1961), better known by his stage name Grandmaster Caz, is an American rapper, songwriter and DJ.
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Grandmaster Flash
Joseph Saddler (born January 1, 1958), better known as Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop recording artist and DJ.
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Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were an American hip hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1976.
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Hercules
Hercules is a Roman hero and god.
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Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.
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Hip-O Records
Hip-O Records is a record label that specializes in reissues and compilations.
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History Detectives
History Detectives is a documentary television series on PBS.
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Incredible Bongo Band
The Incredible Bongo Band, also known as Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band, was a project started in 1972 by Michael Viner, a record artist manager and executive at MGM Records.
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Jamaican Americans
Jamaican Americans are Americans who have full or partial Jamaican ancestry.
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James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.
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Jeff Chang (journalist)
Jeff Chang is an American journalist and music critic on hip hop music and culture.
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Jimmy Castor
James Walter Castor (January 23, 1940 – January 16, 2012) was an American funk, R&B, and soul musician.
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Kidney stone disease
Kidney stone disease, also known as urolithiasis, is when a solid piece of material (kidney stone) occurs in the urinary tract.
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Kingston, Jamaica
Kingston is the capital and largest city of Jamaica, located on the southeastern coast of the island.
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Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Walker (born August 9, 1959), professionally known by his stage name Kurtis Blow, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record/film producer, Bboy, DJ, public speaker and minister.
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Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace.
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Master of ceremonies
A master of ceremonies, abbreviated M.C. or emcee, also called compère and announcer, is the official host of a ceremony, a staged event or similar performance.
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MC Jin
Jin Au-Yeung (born June 4, 1982), Chinese name 歐陽靖, known as MC Jin, is a Chinese-American rapper, songwriter, and actor of Hakka descent.
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Melle Mel
Melvin Glover (born May 15, 1961), better known as Melle Mel and Grandmaster Melle Mel, is an American hip-hop musician – one of the pioneers of rap as lead rapper and main songwriter for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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Mitchell-Lama Housing Program
Co-op city in the Bronx, a Mitchell-Lama development The Mitchell-Lama Housing Program is a non-subsidy governmental housing guarantee in the state of New York.
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Nelson George
Nelson George (born September 1, 1957) is an African-American author, columnist, music and culture critic, journalist, and filmmaker.
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New York (magazine)
New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, and with a particular emphasis on New York City.
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New York (state)
New York is a state in the northeastern United States.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Orion Pictures
Orion Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture producer and distributor that produced and released films from 1978 until 1999 and was also involved in television production and syndication throughout the 1980s until the early 1990s.
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Police Athletic League
The Police Athletic League (PAL; Police Activities League) is an organization in many American police departments in which members of the police force coach young people, both boys and girls, in sports, and help with homework and other school-related activities.
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Rapper's Delight
"Rapper's Delight" is a 1979 hip hop track by the Sugarhill Gang and produced by Sylvia Robinson.
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Rapping
Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment.
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Refrain
A refrain (from Vulgar Latin refringere, "to repeat", and later from Old French refraindre) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the "chorus" of a song.
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Russell Simmons
Russell Wendell Simmons (born October 4, 1957) is an American entrepreneur, record producer, and author.
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Scratching
Scratching, sometimes referred to as scrubbing, is a DJ and turntablist technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable to produce percussive or rhythmic sounds.
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Sex Machine (album)
Sex Machine is a 1970 double album by James Brown.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.
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Sound system (Jamaican)
In Jamaican popular culture, a sound system is a group of disc jockeys, engineers and MCs playing ska, rocksteady or reggae music.
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St Barnabas Hospital (Bronx)
St Barnabas Hospital, originally known as the Home for the Incurables, is a non-profit hospital founded in 1866.
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Stent
In medicine, a stent is a metal or plastic tube inserted into the lumen of an anatomic vessel or duct to keep the passageway open, and stenting is the placement of a stent.
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Steven Hager
Steven Hager (born May 25, 1951, Illinois) is an American writer, journalist, filmmaker, and counterculture and cannabis rights activist.
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Substantial (rapper)
Stanley Robinson (born January 7, 1979), known as Substantial, is a hip hop recording artist from Prince George's County, Maryland.
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Super Bad (Terminator X album)
Super Bad is the second and final solo album by DJ, Terminator X. The album was released on June 21, 1994, on Def Jam Recordings sub-label RAL and was produced by Terminator X, Kool DJ Herc, Grandmaster Flash, and Russell Simmons.
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Sylvia Robinson
Sylvia Robinson (née Vanterpool; May 29, 1935 – September 29, 2011) was an American singer, musician, record producer, and record label executive.
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Terminator X
Norman Rogers (born August 25, 1966), known as Terminator X, is a retired American DJ best known for his work with hip-hop group Public Enemy, which he left in 1999.
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The Bronx
The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.
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The Chemical Brothers
The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo composed of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, originating in Manchester in 1989.
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The Emcee's Properganda
The Emcee's Properganda is Jin's second studio album.
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The Mexican (song)
"The Mexican" is a piece of music on the album First Base by the 1970s British band Babe Ruth.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The New York Times Company
The New York Times Company is an American media company which publishes its namesake, The New York Times.
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The Source
The Source is a United States-based monthly full-color magazine covering hip-hop music, politics, and culture, founded in 1988.
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The Sugarhill Gang
The Sugarhill Gang is an American hip hop group.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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Time Inc.
Time Inc. was an American worldwide mass media corporation founded on November 28, 1922 by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden and based in New York City.
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Universal Zulu Nation
The Universal Zulu Nation is an international hip hop awareness group formed and formerly headed by hip hop artist Afrika Bambaataa.
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William Howard Taft High School (New York City)
William Howard Taft High School was a public high school in southwest section of the Bronx, New York City.
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Winley Records
Paul Winley Records Inc. (more commonly credited as Winley Records) was a doo-wop record label founded in 1956 that in 1979 became one of the earliest hip hop labels.
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1520 Sedgwick Avenue
1520 Sedgwick Avenue is a 102-unit apartment building in the Morris Heights neighborhood in the Bronx, New York City.
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