Culture.
The wider footprint. Films, magazines, books, beefs, tours, brands — and the four elements that started it all.
The four elements
Films
- film · 2002 8 Mile
- film · 2014 808
- film · 2017 All Eyez on Me
- film · 1984 Beat Street
- film · 2011 Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
- film · 2003 Beef
- film · 1998 Belly
- film · 1991 Boyz n the Hood
- film · 1984 Breakin'
- film · 1993 CB4
- film · 1989 Do the Right Thing
- film · 2000 Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme
- film · 1995 Friday
- film · 2005 Get Rich or Die Tryin'
- film · 2016 Hip-Hop Evolution
- film · 2005 Hustle & Flow
- film · 2022 jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy
- film · 1992 Juice
- film · 1985 Krush Groove
- film · 2022 Look at Me: XXXTentacion
- film · 2009 Notorious
- film · 2017 Patti Cake$
- film · 2012 Reincarnated
- film · 1997 Rhyme & Reason
- film · 2012 Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap
- film · 2015 Straight Outta Compton
- film · 1983 Style Wars
- film · 2017 The Defiant Ones
- film · 1995 The Show
- film · 2014 Time Is Illmatic
- film · 1983 Wild Style
Beefs
- beef 2Pac vs Notorious B.I.G. / Bad Boy vs Death Row (1994-1997)
- beef 50 Cent vs Ja Rule / Murder Inc (1999-ongoing)
- beef 50 Cent vs The Game (2005-2016)
- beef Bridge Wars: BDP vs Juice Crew / Marley Marl (1985-2007)
- beef Cardi B vs Nicki Minaj (2017-present)
- beef Drake vs Kendrick Lamar (2013-2024)
- beef Drake vs Meek Mill (2015)
- beef Drake vs Pusha T (2017-2018, Story of Adidon era)
- beef Eminem vs Benzino / The Source (1999-2003)
- beef Eminem vs Machine Gun Kelly (2012-2018)
- beef Gucci Mane vs Young Jeezy (2005-2020 Verzuz reconciliation)
- beef Ice Cube vs Common (1994-1997)
- beef Kool Moe Dee vs Busy Bee Starski (Harlem World, 1981)
- beef Lil' Kim vs Foxy Brown (1996-present)
- beef LL Cool J vs Canibus (1997-2014)
- beef LL Cool J vs Kool Moe Dee (late 80s)
- beef Mobb Deep vs 2Pac (mid-90s)
- beef Nas vs Jay-Z (1996-2005)
- beef N.W.A. vs Ice Cube (1989-1993)
- beef Roxanne Wars: UTFO / Roxanne Shanté / answer records (1984-1985)
Magazines
Books
- The Anthology of Rap
- Book of Rhymes
- Can't Stop Won't Stop
- Total Chaos
- Dilla Time
- The Big Payback
- Check the Technique
- Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists
- Yes Yes Y'all
- Hip Hop America
- The Autobiography of Gucci Mane
- Decoded
- Prophets of the Hood
- Hip Hop Family Tree
- My Infamous Life
- Mo' Meta Blues
- Sweat the Technique
- Black Noise
- The Hip Hop Wars
- The Tao of Wu
- Diary of a Madman
- The Rap Year Book
- The Baddest Bitch in the Room
- The Tanning of America
- The Rose That Grew from Concrete
- Dirty South
- Original Gangstas
Tours & Brands
- The DAMN. Tour
- Def Jam '87 Tour
- Dope Jam Tour
- Swatch Watch New York City Fresh Fest
- Grand National Tour
- Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em World Tour
- Hard Knock Life Tour
- Made in America Festival
- Nitro World Tour
- No Way Out Tour
- The Pinkprint Tour
- Raising Hell Tour
- Rock the Bells
- Salt-N-Pepa Tour
- Summer Sixteen Tour
- Up in Smoke Tour
- Adidas (hip-hop relationship)
- A Bathing Ape (hip-hop history)
- Beats by Dre
- Cîroc
- D'Ussé
- Ecko Unltd
- FUBU
- G-Unit Clothing Company
- OVO (October's Very Own)
- Phat Farm
- Roc Nation
- Rocawear
- Sean John
- Supreme (hip-hop collaborations history)
- Yeezy