It was nominated in the New Times 1998 " Best Latin Influenced " category, the BAM Magazine 1999 " Best Rock en Español " category, and the LA Weekly 1999 " Best Hip Hop " category.

Between 1980-1985 a few Dutch Hip Hop records had already been released, but in 1986 Dutch rap duo MC Miker G & DJ Sven ( Lucien Witteveen and Sven van Veen ) had a major top 10 hit ( often # 1 ) across Europe with their " Holiday Rap ", which sampled Madonna's " Holiday ".

He also shot three of the most expensive music videos ever in the history of Dutch Hip Hop and through a management deal with Cilvaringz, performed in 34 countries worldwide.

The Bronx's evolution from a hot bed of Latin jazz to an incubator of hip hop was the subject of an award-winning documentary, produced by City Lore and broadcast on PBS in 2006, " From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale ".

While it was not the actual " Birthplace of Hip Hop " – the genre developed slowly in several places in the 1970s – it was verified to be the place where one of the pivotal and formative events occurred.

Hush Hip Hop Tours has established a sightseeing tour of the Bronx showcasing the locations that helped shape hip hop culture and has the pioneers of hip hop as tour guides.

* Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop ( 1989 )

* He is prominently featured in Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, a 2006 documentary by Byron Hurt.

The four main elements of Hip Hop culture are graffiti, DJing, breakdancing, and MCing ( rapping ).

* 1980 – Nick Speed, American Hip Hop producer

Hip Hop music became all the more famous with the song ' Pettai Rap ' from the Tamil movie Kadhalan starring Prabhu Deva.

Rap / Hip Hop was often used in the regional movies as fillers in between songs and off late has started to become main stream songs.

London based The Rishi Rich Project, Bally Sagoo and Canadian based Raghav further laid steady foundations for Hip Hop / RnB music in India.

Machas With Attitude are one of the most popular Hip Hop group in India and are famous for their songs in movies like Mujhse Fraaandship Karoge and Aayirathil Oruvan ( 2010 film ).

Machas With Attitude were pioneers in mixing the south Indian elements in Hip Hop.

He also worked for Sirius Satellite Radio on the Classic Old School Hip Hop station Backspin 43.

As Founder of The Hip Hop Church, Kurtis serves as rapper, DJ, worship leader and licensed minister.

* Kurtis Blow Presents: Hip Hop Ministry ( 2007, EMI Gospel )

*** Outstanding National Hip Hop Writer / Producer ( Winner )

Mellow Man, referred to as the " Godfather of Latin rap " and a Hip Hop Hall of Fame inductee, brought mainstream attention to Spanglish rhyming with his 1989 platinum single " Mentirosa ".

The film will be based on Marl and the Juice Crew in the late 80's the golden era of Hip Hop.

* Hip Hop Dictionary ( 2000 )

After leaving university, he began working as a DJ in 1985 with his " Mongolian Hip Hop Show " on pirate radio station Network 21 in London-the handle Mixmaster Morris was suggested by the station director.

Hip Hop label Big Dada was set up by journalist and writer Will Ashon in 1997.

Hip hop music in India had started at around 1990 and Baba Sehgal is credited as India's first rapper.

In 2004, Run-DMC were one of the first acts honored on the first annual VH1 Hip Hop Honors, alongside legends like 2Pac and the Sugarhill Gang.

They also established their own label Looptown together with Volkan T., on which they first put out the Turkish-German rap compilation " Looptown presents Turkish Hip Hop " ( 1994 ) which was followed by their solo album " Garip Dünya " ( 1997 ).

Hip hop first appeared in France in 1979, just as the genre was achieving some success in the United States.

" Hip Hop and rap music were born in the inner city urban communities of the U. S. at the end of the 1970s and first exported to England, as it was the first natural market for American musical products.

In 1989 Troya Dscs & Rcrs label released the first Spanish hip hop LP: Madrid Hip Hop, a compilation of four bands from the province of Madrid: DNI, Estado Crítico, Sindicato del Crimen and QSC.

In 1983, Fab 5 Freddy produced a hip-hop version of " Eisgekühlter Bommerlunder " called " Hip Hop Bommi Bop " together with German punk rock band Die Toten Hosen which is said to be the very first co-production of Punk and Hip Hop.

* November 15-The Beastie Boys release their first studio album Licensed To Ill, which goes onto become the first Hip Hop album to reach number one in the U. S. A.

Surprisingly, “ Hip Hug-Her ” was the first single released with Jones on a Hammond B-3 organ, the instrument he is most known for playing ( he played a Hammond M-3 on all of the earlier recordings, including " Green Onions ").

The now legendary roundtable discussion was caught on film by Kurt Nice and first featured in early 1998 on Shades of Hip Hop compilation Hot 2 Def and re-released in 2004 on Shades of HipHop: The Cypher.

Hip hop came to influence contemporary R & B later in the ' 80s, first through new jack swing and then in a related series of subgenres called hip hop soul and neo soul.

Hip hop is recognized to have originated and evolved first in the East Coast.

" It Takes Two " was described by Hip Hop Connection magazine as "... the first palatable form of hip-house for hardcore hip hop fans ,".

The album was also a critical success, being ranked 114th on Pitchfork Media's Top 200 Albums of the first decade of the 21st century List, and 10th on Rhapsody's Hip Hop's Best Albums Of The Decade List.

Dating back from growing underground culture one of the first Finnish Hip Hop records with lyrics in English was recorded at Vernissa ( C ) Manus / ( P ) Johanna Kustannus 1991 by Damn The Band.

Hip hop music was brought to Nigeria in the late 1980s, and grew steadily popular throughout the first part of the 1990s.

Reflections BYG is a beautiful fresh voice rocking the Zouk floor with her first single Ng ' ume which means Smile, was a big hit in just a few days of its release .. She has an amazing strong voice for the popular Jazz as well as Afrobeat and Hip Hop ; De-vine singing R & B and Zouk ; Nyaruach on the Afro-beat and pop ; Queen Zee is known for her rap music ..

The Tragically Hip is the first release from Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip.

The two communities were often referred to as one " Corona / East Elmhurst " and is the childhood home of the first African American US Attorney General, Eric Holder, to Rap ( Hip Hop ) artists Kid n ' Play, Kwamé, Salt-n-Pepa and Kool G Rap, and is home to Queens Borough President Helen Marshall, New York State Assemblymember Jeffrion Aubry and Jimmy Heath recognized as a brilliant instrumentalist and a magnificent composer and arranger.