Boogie Down and KRS retorted angrily with songs like The Bridge is Over and South Bronx, which started one of the first notable hip hop wars as MC Shan, Marley Marl, Roxanne Shanté and Blaq Poet all released songs featuring verses personally attacking KRS and Scott La Rock.

The Juice Crew included Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Roxanne Shanté, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Craig G, MC Shan and Masta Ace, and produced many songs for outside artists including King Tee, LL Cool J, and Lords of the Underground.

Marl was the first to sample a breakbeat and reprogram it, which he did with The Honey Drippers ' " Impeach the President " breakbeat on the MC Shan single " The Bridge " from 1985.

Soon however, Marl's records became more sample heavy, as can be seen by comparing the MC Shan LPs Down By Law ( 1987 ) and Born to be Wild ( 1988 ); the rhythms less electronic, with drum samples and patterns becoming more prominent.

As the founder of Cold Chillin ' Records, Marl assembled a roster filled with some of the most prominent hip hop talent then working in New York: MC Shan, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie, Roxanne Shanté, Craig G, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, and Masta Ace.

MC Shan and Roxanne Shante were part of Marley Marl's Cold Chillin ' Records, and Biz beatboxed on Shante's underground hit " Def Fresh Crew " ( 1986 ).

Additionally, the Queensbridge Projects in the borough of Queens have been an epicenter of Hip Hop, producing the Juice Crew ( Marley Marl, MC Shan, Roxanee Shante ), Mobb Deep, Capone-N-Noreaga and Nas.

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" Slate magazine described it as follows: " In 1986, it was a beef that launched the star of KRS-One, when his withering attacks on MC Shan effectively ended his rival's career.

Years later, MC Shan remade " The Bridge " into " Da Bridge 2001 ," and strongly denied the bridge " was over ", saying:

Along with other rappers such as MC Shan, Kool Moe Dee claimed that LL had stolen their rap styles.

Marley's Juice Crew collective, hugely influential in the 1980s, featured among its members Queensbridge rappers Kool G Rap, MC Shan, Roxanne Shanté, and Craig G, each noted names in their own right.

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The album also featured guest appearances from Queensbridge's hip hop legends Roxanne Shanté, MC Shan and Marley Marl, both of whom appeared on the lead single " Da Bridge 2001 " ( based on MC Shan's and Marley Marl's 1986 classic " The Bridge ").

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Though MC Shan states Queensbridge is where his crew got started, and his birth place, he has stated that he never meant the song to say that Queensbridge is the birthplace of Hip Hop at all, " everyone knows that hip hop was started in the Bronx.

The song first premiered at a concert where MC Shan had just performed " The Bridge ".

Anthony Ray ( born August 12, 1963 ), better known by his stage name Sir Mix-a-Lot, is an American MC and producer based in Seattle, Washington.

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