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When Coxsone Dodd's "Downbeat" and Duke Reid's "Trojan" started DJ Battling.
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James Brown recorded his Live At The Apollo. The drummer, Clayton Fillyan, creates a new sound that is now known as the breakbeat. The breakbeat has influenced the movement b-boy and breakers would dance to these beats at the block parties.
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DJ U-Roy comes out with three top songs using a new style known as toasting.
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"The Adventures of Grand Master Flash on the Wheels of Steel' by Grandmaster Flash, it was the first record to ultimately capture the sounds of live DJ scratching on wax.
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This is when 2Pac joins Digital Underground as a dancer and a roadie.
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Eminem pasts racial hurdles and ends up selling 4 million copies of his debut. The Slim Shady LP
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2Pac's "Until The End of Time" debuts as No. 1 on Billboard 200 albums.
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Now in the 21st century, there has been many new hip-hop artists with new styles, for example: Drake, Future, Chris Brown, Chance The Rapper, Wiz Khalifa, The Weekend, Eninem, Big Sean, and Kayne West.
