The History of Hip-Hop

By iddavila

  • 1950

    1950
    When Coxsone Dodd's "Downbeat" and Duke Reid's "Trojan" started DJ Battling.

  • 1962

    1962
    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.

  • 1970

    1970
    DJ U-Roy comes out with three top songs using a new style known as toasting.

  • 1981

    1981
    "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.

  • 1990

    1990
    This is when 2Pac joins Digital Underground as a dancer and a roadie.

  • 1999

    1999
    Eminem pasts racial hurdles and ends up selling 4 million copies of his debut. The Slim Shady LP

  • 2001

    2001
    2Pac's "Until The End of Time" debuts as No. 1 on Billboard 200 albums.

  • 2005-2017

    2005-2017
    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.