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<center><big>'''Welcome to the Hip Hop Wiki!'''
 
<center><big>'''Welcome to the Hip Hop Wiki!'''
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The Hip Hop Wiki is for all aspects of [[hip hop]], and [[Hip Hop Wiki:Community Portal|you can help]]</big>
 
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The Notorious B.I.G.
 
The Notorious B.I.G.
 
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==Welcome to the Hip Hop Wiki==
 
The Hip Hop Wiki is dedicated to collecting and sharing information about everything to do with [[hip hop|hip hop culture]] and [[hip hop music]]: [[Rapping|rappers]], [[Disc jockey|DJs]], [[B-boying|b-boys]], and [[Graffiti|graffiti artists]]!
 
==Where to start==
 
*[[List of hip hop musicians]]
 
*[[List of hip hop albums]]
 
*[[1973 in hip hop]]
 
*[[Top 10 list:Who is the best rapper?|Poll: Who is the best rapper?]]
 
*[[List of hip hop songs considered the best]]
 
   
 
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Revision as of 06:57, 24 April 2014

Welcome to the Hip Hop Wiki!

We have created 2,929 articles and have made 28,207 edits since 17 January 2013

The Hip Hop Wiki is for all aspects of hip hop, and you can help

List of hip hop musicians
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List of hip hop musicians

Peep our list of hip hop MCs, groups, DJs and producers!

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American rapper Tupac Shakur died on 13 September 1996, six days after being shot...

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Know your hip hop history! Check out our timeline here...

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List of hip hop musicians
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Critical Beatdown
Critical Beatdown is the debut album by American hip hop group Ultramagnetic MC's, released in 1988 on Next Plateau Records. Production for the album was handled primarily by the group member Ced-Gee, who employed the E-mu SP-1200 as his main sampler. Music journalists have noted the album for its innovative production, funk-based samples, self-assertive themes, ingenious lyricism, and complex rhyme schemes. Kool Keith's and Ced-Gee's lyrics on the album are characterised by abstract braggadocio, stream-of-consciousness narrative style, and pseudoscientific terminology. Although it charted modestly upon its release, Critical Beatdown has since been acclaimed by critics as a classic album of hip hop's golden age and new school aesthetic. The album's abstract rhymes in strange syncopations laid on top of sampling experiments proved widely influential, from Public Enemy and The Bomb Squad to gangsta rap to several generations of underground hip hop artists. (Read more...)

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