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Old school hip hop is the very first hip hop music to come out of the block parties of New York City in the 1970s and early 1980s. The old school era ended and the golden age began with the popularity of Run-DMC's 1986 album, Raising Hell. In modern usage, the term is often used to refer to hip hop from the early 1990s by numerous radio stations and television channels, including BET.

Contents 1 History 2 Samples 3 Artists 4 See also

History

Afrika Bambaataa

The first recordings of old school hip hop were the Fatback Band's "King Tim III" and The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight". While "King Tim III" is widely regarded as the first recorded hip hop song, it was the Sugarhill Gang that won hip hop its first mainstream popularity.

Old school hip hop would often sample disco, soul, and funk tracks. In the case of the Sugarhill Gang, a live band was used for samples. However, the old school sound soon became based largely on drum machines and popular "break" samples.

In contrast with the later rhymes of new school hip hop, old school rap was relatively simple in its rhythms and cadences.

Old school rap was often focused on good times, parties and friendship. An exception was "The Message", a rap song written by Melle Mel for his hip hop group, Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five. The popularity of "The Message" led the "message rap" to gain a place in the hip hop canon.

Samples

• "Planet Rock" by Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force (1982); the old school electro hop track used portions from Kraftwerk, Captain Skyy and Ennio Morricone.
• "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five (1982); This old school hip hop song gained popularity for "message raps."

Artists

Afrika Bambaataa Busy Bee Captain Rapp Cold Crush Brothers Cowboy Cybotron Darkstar Davy DMX Dee Dee King Dimples D. Disco Daddy & Captain Rapp DJ Cheese DJ Dr. Shock DJ EZ Rock DJ Flash DJ Hollywood DJ Kool Kool DJ Herc DJ Matrix DJ Mike B Hartford, CT DJ Red Alert Dr. Dre Doctor Ice Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde Doug E. Fresh

The Educated Rapper Eric B. & Rakim The Fat Boys Freeez Fresh Gordon Full Force Funky Four Plus One The Furious Five The Future MC's Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five Grandmaster Melle Mel Hashim Herbie Hancock Howie Tee Hurt 'Em Bad Jimmy Spicer Juice Crew Just Ice K Love Kangol Kid Kaos & Mystro Kid Frost Kid Solo Kimberly Ball King MC and DJ Flash Knights of the Turntables Kool Moe Dee Kurtis Blow

L.A. Dream Team Lightnin' Rod Madrok Man Parrish Mantronix Marley Marl M.C. Fosty & Lovin' C. M.C. Shan THE MEAN MACHINE The Moments Newcleus Next School Nice & Smooth Old School Players P.A.N.I.C. Paul Hardcastle Positive Force Pumpkin The Rappers Rap Group Real Roxanne Rob Base Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three Rock Steady Crew Rocky Padilla Rodney O. Ron Hudson Run-DMC

Salt-N-Pepa Scor The Sequence Shawn Brown Skinny Boys Slamm Syndicate Soul Sonic Force Sparky D Spoonie Gee Spyder-D The Sugarhill Gang Super Nature Symbolic Three T La Rock Timex Social Club Toddy Tee Treacherous Three Triple Threat Three Trouble Funk Two-Bigg M.C. Ultramagnetic MCs UTFO West Street Mob Whodini Word of Mouth Young MC

See also

• Golden age hip hop

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