DJ Kool Herc is credited with launching the hip-hop movement while deejaying at a back-to-school party in 1973.
Six years later, the art form would go mainstream when Wonder Mike, Big Bank Hank, and Master Gee dropped their first pioneering record in 1979.
“Rapper’s Delight” by The Sugar Hill Gang was the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
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