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 ".

Hip Hop first emerged in the South Bronx in the early 1970s.

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

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 disc jockeys select and play music using multiple turntables, often to back up one or more MCs, and they may also do turntable scratching to create percussive sounds.

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

* Hip hop producer, creates hip hop music using electronic instruments

By the 2000s, Rap and Hip Hop had reached their commercial peaks, and the genre continued to dominate the music scene of the decade The best-selling artist of the decade was the American rapper Eminem, who sold 32 million albums, followed by The Beatles ( who split in 1970 but have stayed extremely popular since ).

Hip hop music also saw a decline in the mainstream during the late 2000s because of electronic music's rising popularity.

* Hip hop music

" 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.

Some of his tracks were however pure hip hop, e. g. " Il rap " which sampled Public Enemy's Chuck D. Hip hop is especially characteristic of southern Italy, a fact which some observers have contributed to the southern concept of rispetto ( respect, honor ), a form of verbal jousting ; both facts have helped identify southern Italian music with the African American hip hop style.

German Hip Hop refers to hip hop music produced in Germany.

Greek Hip Hop (, ), is the chief genre of rap music in Greece.

This caused a decrease into interest in Hip Hop music.

In 2001, Hip Hop music started to regain attention with nefret, who now is one of the most famous Turkish rapper with the name "" ceza "" He started the next generation of Turkish rap.

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Hip hop DJs and producers had been mining electronic sounds to create beats since Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash pioneered the use of drum machines and synthesizers in the early 1980s, and the hip hop genre shared with other forms of electronic music an emphasis on sampling.

As Britpop declined in popularity, Blurs next three albums, Blur, 13 and Think Tank contained influenced from Indie Rock, Electronic and Hip Hop music.

It was at this time that Hip hop music began to extensively sample P-Funk music, so remnants of the music were still heard regularly, now among fans of Hip hop.