1: Sugar Hill Gang, ‘Rappers Delight’ was the first hip hop song that received mainstream attention and was the first rap song to become a Top 40 hit.
2: Blondie, ‘Rapture’ made by Debbi Harry and Fab Five Freddy spawned from Rappers Delight. This song is accredited for being the first pop/rock song which featured rap by a female of another race.
3: After producing the song “It’s Yours” for T La Rock & Jazzy Jay, Rick Rubin met Russell Simmons at a party for a show called Graffiti Rock. They went on to found Def Jam in 1984.
4: Michael Jackson Billie Jean was the first video from an urban artist to get played on MTV.
5: Ralph McDaniel’s was an intern at a NYC station called ‘NYC TV’ where he would get promo videos for artist weekly. Ralph went on to sway them to start playing more hip hop videos on their show ‘Video Music Box’. There were only 5 hip-hop videos originally on the station and Ralph went on to say they went from “around 20% hip hop videos to 70%”.
6: The ‘Shout Out’ originated in 1984 and has continued to be used throughout time eventually making its way to some of the speeches from the President.
7: December 1984, The Wall Street Journal wrote an article about hip hop as a business. Bill Adler told Megan Cox to write an article on Russell Simmons. Russell told her that he wanted to take her to the afterhours clubs to fully experience hip-hop. He also requested he bring his protégé LL Cool J with him.
8: Rick Rubin convinced Run-D.M.C. to redo the entire song for “Walk This Way”. It was first played at a station in Boston and within a week, it was the most requested song on the station. It was the first rap record to break into the top 20 on the billboard charts.
9: The 1986 hit, ‘My Adidas’ by Run-D.M.C caused such a hype that it caught the attention of Adidas, which eventually led to the first endorsement deal in hip hop.
10: Dapper Dan was the pioneer who instrumental in creating fashion in hip hop.
11: Jon Shecter and David Mays founded the mega magazine The Source at Harvard University.
12: Ralph McDaniel’s approached MTV in 1986 and began to convince them to start Yo! MTV Raps. They started the program in 1987 and it aired in August of 1988.
13: The first Grammy nominees that were rapper were Will Smith Jazzy Jeff, Cool Moe Dee, Salt N’Pepa, LL Cool J, and JJ Fad, but they didn’t plan to televise the awards, so they boycotted the Grammys.
2: Blondie, ‘Rapture’ made by Debbi Harry and Fab Five Freddy spawned from Rappers Delight. This song is accredited for being the first pop/rock song which featured rap by a female of another race.
3: After producing the song “It’s Yours” for T La Rock & Jazzy Jay, Rick Rubin met Russell Simmons at a party for a show called Graffiti Rock. They went on to found Def Jam in 1984.
4: Michael Jackson Billie Jean was the first video from an urban artist to get played on MTV.
5: Ralph McDaniel’s was an intern at a NYC station called ‘NYC TV’ where he would get promo videos for artist weekly. Ralph went on to sway them to start playing more hip hop videos on their show ‘Video Music Box’. There were only 5 hip-hop videos originally on the station and Ralph went on to say they went from “around 20% hip hop videos to 70%”.
6: The ‘Shout Out’ originated in 1984 and has continued to be used throughout time eventually making its way to some of the speeches from the President.
7: December 1984, The Wall Street Journal wrote an article about hip hop as a business. Bill Adler told Megan Cox to write an article on Russell Simmons. Russell told her that he wanted to take her to the afterhours clubs to fully experience hip-hop. He also requested he bring his protégé LL Cool J with him.
8: Rick Rubin convinced Run-D.M.C. to redo the entire song for “Walk This Way”. It was first played at a station in Boston and within a week, it was the most requested song on the station. It was the first rap record to break into the top 20 on the billboard charts.
9: The 1986 hit, ‘My Adidas’ by Run-D.M.C caused such a hype that it caught the attention of Adidas, which eventually led to the first endorsement deal in hip hop.
10: Dapper Dan was the pioneer who instrumental in creating fashion in hip hop.
11: Jon Shecter and David Mays founded the mega magazine The Source at Harvard University.
12: Ralph McDaniel’s approached MTV in 1986 and began to convince them to start Yo! MTV Raps. They started the program in 1987 and it aired in August of 1988.
13: The first Grammy nominees that were rapper were Will Smith Jazzy Jeff, Cool Moe Dee, Salt N’Pepa, LL Cool J, and JJ Fad, but they didn’t plan to televise the awards, so they boycotted the Grammys.
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