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3. Run-DMC As the kings from Queens, Run-DMC are one of the most influential groups in all of music! Known for their high energy and how they helped catapult Hip Hop into the mainstream, the group ...

As the genre evolved and hip-hop groups formed, like Planet Rock and Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5, those ideas were challenged, and ultimately turned on their heads, Rawls said.

Rawls, who eventually became known in hip-hop circles as J. Rawls, a talented DJ and producer, said his interest really grew in 1984, 11 years after the founding of hip-hop, when movies about the ...

The birth of the art form that became hip-hop is traced back, in music legend, to a party in the South Bronx, some 50 years ago. DJ Kool Herc spun his turntables on August 11, 1973, introducing a ...