Hip Hop Culture
The hip hop movement art form that involves drawing/writing on buildings.
What is graffiti?
The person who threw the first hip hop party in 1973.
Who is DJ Kool Herc?
The technique that became an alternative to drums and drum machines.
What is beatboxing?
The rap artists who were very outspoken and advocated for women's rights and challenged society norms.
Who are female rap artists?
The genre that now is essentially the same as pop music, but made by minorities.
What is R&B?
The person who introduces the rappers is a casual, gimmicky, humorous rhymer.
Who is the MC?
The person who first intentionally scratched the record.
Who is Grandmaster Flash?
The TV station that recognized rap and hip hop as a music genre.
What is MTV?
One of the first rapper to bring rap music into the mainstream.
Who is MC Hammer?
The rapper that the end of the East Coast/West Coast Rap War opened the door for.
Who is Eminem?
The person that created the Zulu Nation that contributed to ending gang violence through rap and hip hop parties.
Who is Afrika Bambaataa?
The "holy trinity" of early rap & hip hop.
Who are DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash?
One of the most iconic rap crossovers.
What is Aerosmith and Run DMC?
The rap group that helped fuel tension between the citizens of LA and the LAPD during the Rodney King riots? (hint: gangsta rap)
Who is N.W.A.?
The person who brought rap to a different target audience than that of the Gangasta Rap era.
Who is Eminem?
The type of dancing that started in the hip hop movement.
What is break dancing?
The other music genre that R&B originally shared a category with on the Billboard charts.
What is Country/Western?
The song that pushes hip hop into the mainstream.
What is Rapper's Delight?
The two record labels were heavily involved in the East Coast/West Coast Rap War.
Who are Death Row Records and Bad Boy Records?
The biggest selling female rapper of all time.
Who is Nikki Minaj?
The decade that R&B originated.
What is the 1930s?
The technique that is used to create the background music in early rap music.
What is sampling?
The rock-rap crossover group.
Who is the Beastie Boys.
The two gangs that were involved in the birth of Gangsta Rap.
Who are the Bloods and the Crips?
The rap artist born in the Bronx who was affiliated with the Bloods gang that gained notoriety through Vine and Instragram.
Who is Cardi B?