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Rapping started as the next stage of toasting in the emerging hip-hop scene in the 1970s.
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Coke La Rock made up rhythmic poems that gained in popularity and were the first raps.
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Whodini becomes the first rap group to shoot an official video for their song "Magic's Wand."
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Rappers, like Schoolly D, Ice T, Easy E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Snoop Dog, chose instead to develop gangsta rap, which glorifies the gangster lifestyle -- violence, drugs, sex, and of course, gangs. They just raooed about what they grew up around in their neiborhoods.
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Ice cube stars in a new album,the album, "AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted," is praised by the hip-hop community as a classic and sets Cube on the road to solo superstardom.
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Wu-Tang Clan were assembled as a loose congregation of nine MCs, almost as a support group.
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Dr. Dre finally releases a proper follow-up to his 1992 masterpiece, "The Chronic."
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Dr. Dre protege Snoop Doggy Dogg releases his highly-anticipated solo debut, "DoggyStyle" for Death Row Records. The album is a monstrous hit, becoming the first debut album to enter the Billboard chart at #1.
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''Ready to Die' by The Notorius B.I.G. was one of the biggest alubum sold world wide in the rappig industry, it was released September 13, 1994 on Bad Boy Records.
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Jay-Z's debut album, "Reasonable Doubt" was on one of his firsts but was not that successful.
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mid-to-late 1990s was marred with violent deaths surrounding the genre -- most notably those of Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. After that, many high-profile artists agreed it was time to tone down the violent feuds among rappers and keep the threats lyrical instead of literal.
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Eminem stars in the film, "8 Mile". The film won an Oscar for the theme sog ''Loose Yourself''
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Eminem releases his album 'Encore' on November 12th, four days earlier than planned because of being leaked over the internet. The album went four-times platinum.
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Some more recent rap artists are: ASAP Rocky, Kedrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Kid Cudi, Childish Gambino ect. Many of these artists are very creative with thier lyrical flow. Chilidish Gambino is a actor too, he acts in the tv show ''Community" on nbc.
