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1971 July: New York Times publishes an article on Demtrius, a Washington Heights native, who goes by the tag name Taki 183. It is one of the first mainstream articles about a graffitti artist.



1974 November: Herc DJs a Bronx house party and repeatedly plays songs' percussion breaks, picking up the needle after the break ends and starting over again, creating the sound that will become the basis of hip-hop.



1975: Coke La Rock and Clark Kent (aka Tyrone Smith, not the DJ for Dana Dane) join Kool Herc to formed the first emcee team. They, along with DJ Timmy Tim,s became known as Kool Herc and the Herculoids.



1976: Afrika Bambaataa makes his debut as a DJ at the Bronx River Community Center



1976 Aug. 5: "What's Happening!" debuts on ABC, featuring Freddie "Rerun" Stubbs (played by Fred Berry), arguably television's first B-boy character.



1977 Rock Steady Crew, who would become the most well-known breakdancing group, is formed



1979: Fatback records the first rap song, “King Tim III (Personality Jock)”



1979: “Mr. Magic’s Disco Showcase” debuts on WHBI, the first rap radio program. It would eventually become “Mr. Magic’s Rap Attack” and move to WBLS.



1979 Sept. 16: "Rapper's Delight" is released by The Sugar Hill Gang.



1980: Lady B becomes the first recorded female rapper with “To the Beat Y’all.” She would later go on to become editor of “Word Up!” magazine.



1980: Sequence (Cheryl the Pearl, Angie B and Blondie) becomes the first all-female rap group to release a record, setting the stage for Salt-N-Pepa and others.



1980 August: Kurtis Blow's "The Br eaks" becomes first hip-hop single to go gold.



1980 October: Kurtis Blow appears on “Soul Train” becoming the first rap artist to appear on national TV.



1981: “Gigolo Rapp” by Captain Rapp & Disco Daddy is the first West Coast rap recording, released on the Los Angeles-based Rappers Rapp Disco Record Co.



1981 Feb. 14: The Funky 4 Plus One More perform on "Saturday Night Live" becoming first hip-hop rap group on national television. The “One” of the group is female rapper Sha Rock (nee Sharon Jackson), one of hip-hop’s first female rappers.



1981 March 28: Blondie's "Rapture" becomes No. 1 pop single in Billboard, becoming first hip-hop chart-topper.



1981 September: Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five release "The Message," the first popular hip-hop record to address serious issues.



1982: Malcolm McLaren's "Buffalo Gals" introduces scratching to mainstream audiences.



1982: Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force releases "Planet Rock," bringing Kraftwerk's synth-pop into hip-hop, creating the electro-funk sound that would be sampled and imitated by other hip-hop groups throughout the early 1980s.



1983: "Rockit," from jazz legend Herbie Hanthingy, sets a standard for scratching in hip-hop; DJ legend Grandmixer D.ST lends his expertise to the song; the video becomes a staple on MTV.



1983: Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five delivers an anti-drug message with the release of "White Lines (Don't Do It),"



1983: Run-D.M.C. release their first single, "It's Like That/Sucker M.C.'s" on Profile Records.



1983: The documentary "Style Wars" and the low-budget feature "Wild Style" provide the first cinematic glimpses into the underground rap, grafitti and breakdancing culture of New York.



1983: Afrika Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force release “Looking for the Perfect Beat,” one of the first rap songs to feature sampling.



1983 April 15:The Rock Steady Crew appears in the movie "Flashdance." It’s the first mainstream appearance of b-boying or breakdancing.



1983 Dec. 9: "Scarface," starring Al Pacino is released and immediately becomes a hip-hop favorite.



1984: Roxanne Shante's "The Real Roxanne," recorded in response to U.T.F.O.'s "Roxanne Roxanne," becomes one of the first "answer records," spawning dozens of imitators



1984: Los Angeles's KDAY becomes the first rap-only radio station in the United States



1984 Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin found the influential rap label Def Jam.



1984 The Fresh Fest concert tour, featuring Run-D.M.C., Kurtis Blow, Whodini, Fat Boys, and Newcleus, is hip-hop’s first major hip-hop tour.



1984 May 4: The release of the movie “Breakin'," filmed entirely in Southern California (and featuring Ice-T in his film debut), helps popularize hip-hop culture on the West Coast.



1984.Dec. 17: Run-DMC's debut becomes first hip-hop album to go gold.



1985 February: Grand Master Mel Melle performs with Chaka Khan on the Grammys. Three years later Grammy gives its first rap award.



1985 Oct. 25: "Krush Groove," a movie based on Russell Simmons' life, is released, starring Run-DMC, The Fat Boys and Sheila E.



1985 Nov. 1: The RIAA, in a compromise with the Parents Music Resource Center, agrees to put "Parental Advisory" stickers on albums.



1986. July 15 Raising Hell becomes the first platinum rap album



1986: Eric B becomes one of the first DJs to sample a James Brown song on “Eric B is President.” James Brown will become the most sampled artist in hip-hop.



1986: MTV begins airing Run-D.M.C.'s video for "Walk This Way," featuring the members of Aerosmith, creating the first rap-rock crossover hit and the first hip-hop video.



1986: Run-D.M.C. releases "My Adidas," first mainstream hit to namedrop products in songs. Years later, car companies, fashion designers and beverage fims will reap the benefits of having rappers sing about their products.



1986 The Juice Crew's "The Bridge" and Boogie Down Productions' "The Bridge is Over" one of the earliest and longest-running “beefs” in hip-hop.



1987: Boogie Down Productions' "Criminal Minded" introduces violent, reality-based rap



1987: Public Enemy's debut "Yo! Bum Rush the Show" is released.



1987: Ice-T releases “Rhyme Pays” —about the ganster lifestyle. Critics called it “ganster rap” and the label sticks.



1988: David Mays launches Source Magazine



1988 August MTV debuts "Yo MTV Raps!," which becomes one of its most popular shows.



1988.August 12: Public.Enemy performs at Rikers Island to promote its new album, "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back”



1989: N.W.A.'s "Straight Outta Compton" ushers in the age of gangsta rap. The record, reportedly funded with drug money, cements the public perception that rappers are criminals; it also sets a standard for future rappers who will use their outlaw status to bolster their "street cred"



1989.January 16: "Stop the Violence," an all-star single featuring KRS-One, Public Enemy, Stetasonic and others, is released. It is the first time hip-hop attempts to police itself and help stop the increasing violence in urban communities



1989. Feb. 18: Tone-Loc's "Wild Thing" reaches No. 2 on the pop chart, the highest ever for a rap song at the time. It will also become the first rap single to go platinum.



1989 February: DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince win the first rap Grammy for Best Rap Performance for "Parents Just Don't Understand."



1989.August.: FBI's assistant director Milt Alderich issues a bulletin to police departments saying NWA's "F*** tha Police" encourages violence and disrespect against law enforcement.



1990: In New Orleans, Master P forms No Limit, a record store that will eventually become a highly successful label.



1990.March 24: Professor Griff leaves Public Enemy after he makes anti-Semitic remarks during an interview with the conservative paper The Washington Times.



June 1990: 2 Live Crew's album "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" is deemed obscene by a federal judge in Broward County, the first time in U.S. history a recording received the label by a federal court. The group is later arrested and slapped with obscenity charges after performing at an adults only club in Hollywood, Fla.



1990.June: MC Hammer's "Please Hammer Don't Hurt Em" hits No. 1, bringing hip-hop to the pop world. It would become the best-selling rap album of all-time (10 millions copies) until TLC’s “CrazySexyCool” surpasses it in 1999 at 11 million.



1990 Sept. 10: Will Smith's "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" debuts.



1990.October: A Florida record storeowner is arrested for selling a copy of 2 Live Crew's "As Nasty As They Wanna Be." Later, the group is acquitted of obscenity charges.



December 1990: West Coast All-Stars, featuring release “We’re All in the Same Gang” to help fight the increasing gang violence in urban communities.



1991: SoundScan's new system of monitoring point-of-purchase sales, rather than shipments, more accurately reflects rap sales and causes the music industry to take notice.



1991: Public Enemy and Anthrax record a thrash-metal version of "Bring the Noise," setting the groundwork for rap-rockers such as Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and Korn.



1991: Suge Knight forms Death Row records in Los Angeles and Sean "Puffy" Combs forms Bad Boy Entertainment in New York; both will become focal points for the emerging East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry.



1991.Feb. 20: Public Enemy leads a protest of rappers to boycott the Grammys because the rap category won’t be televised during the award ceremony..



1991.July 18: Lollapalooza launches with Ice-T's heavy metal/rap project Body Count alongside Jane's Addiction and Nine Inch Nails.



1991 Nov. 12: 2Pac releases "2Pacalypse Now," establishing a new persona in rap: The tough-yet-sensitive thug



Circa 1992 Christopher Wallace aka Notorious B.I.G is featured in the "Unsigned Hype" column of The Source magazine.



1992 March 30: Ice-T's band Body Count releases its debut album "Body Count," featuring the song "Cop Killer.”



1992 Dec. 15: Dr. Dre's album "The Chronic" establishes the West Coast as a rap capital to rival New York. The album also helps usher in a new era of gangsta rap



1993: Funkmaster Flex begins DJ-ing at Hot 97 six nights a week, becoming a trend-setting force at one of New York's most influential rap stations.



1993.September: "Living Single," starring rapper Queen Latifah as a hip-hop magazine editor, debuts.



1993 Feb. 24: Arrested Development becomes first hip-hop act to win Grammy for Best New Artist.



1994 April 29: Queen Latifah becomes the first female to have a gold album “Black Reign”



1994 Sept. 13: Notorious B.I.G. sets the standard for East-Coast style gangsta rap with "Ready To Die"



1994 November: 2Pac is shot five times in the lobby of Quad Recording Studio in Mahattan where Puffy and Big were recording. Days later he checks hiimself out of the hospital against doctor’s orders. To return to court. He is found guilty of sexually assaulting a female fan and is sentenced to four ½ years. April 1995, while imprisoned at Riker’s Island, he grants VIBE a jailhouse interview in which he blames Puff and Biggie for the Quad studio shooting. This is seen as the first salvo in the East Coast West Coast rap feud.



1995 Jan. 6 Da Brat becomes the first female rapper to have a platinum selling album, ‘Funkdafied”



1995: Damon Dash and Jay-Z forms Roc-A-Fella Records



1995.March 26: Eazy-E dies of AIDS.



1996: Pac release the dis record “Hit ‘em up” in which he blasts Biggie and claims to have slept with Biggie’s wife at the time, Faith Evans.



1996.Sept. 13: Tupac Shakur, who is shot sept. 6 on the busy Las Vegas Strip after an altercation in the lobby with a reputed gang member, dies of his gunshot wounds. Some will see this as a deadly escalation of the east-west coast rivalries. Others will say the shoot was the result of gang-related shooting. The case remains unsolved.



1997.March 9: The Notorious B.I.G, who is in LA to work on Puffy’s solo album attends a Soul Train Awards party. He is gunned down in on Fairfax and Wilshire. Some see the shooting as a retaliation for the shooting of Shakur six months earlier. The case remained unsolved.



1997.June: Riding a sample for The Police’s “Every Breath You Take,” "I'll Be Missing You," a tribute to Notorious B.I.G. from Puff Daddy and Faith Evans, goes to No. 1.



1997.September: Queen Latifah's daily talk show debuts.



1998: DMX becomes the first artist to have two No. 1 albums in the same year “It’s Dark and Hell is Hot” and “Flesh of my Flesh, Blood of My Blood”



1999 The Def Jam Hard Knock Life Tour, featuring Jay-Z , Redman Method Man and DMX, becomes one of the most successful rap tours in history and helps re-vitalize rap tours after several violent incidences marred rap concerts in earlier years.



1999.Feb. 23: Eminem unleashes his character Slim Shady on "The Slim Shady LP."



1999 Sept. 14: Eve’s album “Let There be Eve … Ruff Ryder’s First Lady,” debuts at No. 1, the first time a female rapper has achieved the feat.



1999.Nov. 11: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum debuts "Roots, Rhyme and Rage," the first major museum exhibition about hip-hop.The exhibit would eventually appear in New York City at Brooklyn Museum of Art in 2000.



1999.Dec. 27: Puffy and J.Lo are arrested after a shooting at a Times Square club. She is released immediately. He is tried and acquitted.



1999 February 24: Lauryn Hill receives a record-setting 10 Grammy nominations and wins five awards for her solo debut "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill."



May 2000: Eminem’s “The Marshall Mathers LP” becomes the fast-selling rap album of all-time, moving 1.75 million units in one week.



2000.November 20: Ol’ Dirty Bastard, a fugitive from the law after leaving a court-sanctioned stay in a drug treatment facility earlier in the month, shows up at the Hammerstein Ballroom -- champagne bottle in hand -- to perform two songs with his group The Wu-Tang Clan, to the shock of his bandmates and the audience. He then slipped out of the venue before police could arrest him.



2001.February 21: Eminem performs at Grammys with Elton John, attempting to defuse protests claiming his lyrics are homophobic and misogynist.



2001 June 28: Jay-Z ridicules Nas and Mobb Deep on the song "Takeover" at Hot 97's Summerjam 2001; Nas responds with the single “Ether.” the fued becomes famous throughout rap circles and establishes "beefing" as a good way to drum up publicity and sell records



2002.April 26: Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC is killed in a car crash in Honduras.



2002.October 30: Jam Master Jay is shot and killed.



2003 Feb. 6: 50 Cent releases "Get Rich Or Die Tryin'," bringing hard-hitting narratives back to the increasingly radio-friendly rap genre



2003.Nov. 14: Jay-Z releases "The Black Album," which he says is his final album before retirement



2003 March 23: Eminem's "Lose Yourself" becomes first hip-hop song to win an Oscar.



2003 Feb. 23: The Grammys introduce the Best Rap Song category, recognizing rappers as songwriters



2003 Nov. 25: Jay-Z retires with a farewell concert at Madison Square Garden.



2004: Hip-hop celebrates its 30 year, and rapper’s delight turns 25

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Post  Spindoe Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:12 am

Nice list, apart from 2 massive events missed:

1981/1982(?) - Grand Wizzard Theodore, a protégé of Grand Master Flash, inadvertantly invents what is known today as 'scratching' while holding the record in place when he was talking to his old dear

1999 February 15th - Rapper Big L is slain on his home turf, 139 & Lennox, possibly whilst mistaken for his brother, Big Lee (who was also shot in the same area some time later while trying to solve the murder). The case remains unsolved.


Any more for any more?!
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