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Moments (34)
- Sep 19, 1982 — Skepta is born
- Jan 31, 1983 — Noah "40" Shebib is born
- Aug 29, 1986 — Boi-1da is born
- May 21, 1987 — Hit-Boy is born
- Nov 28, 2006 — Hell Hath No Fury is released
- May 2, 2007 — Soulja Boy releases 'Crank That (Soulja Boy)' — the first viral-internet hip-hop hit
- May 2, 2007 — "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" is released
- Jul 31, 2007 — "Stronger" is released
- Jul 31, 2007 — Kanye West releases 'Stronger'
- Sep 11, 2007 — Graduation is released
- Jun 10, 2008 — Tha Carter III is released
- Jun 10, 2008 — Lil Wayne releases 'Tha Carter III' — sells 1M copies in its first week
- Jul 21, 2008 — Rick Ross outed as a former corrections officer
- Nov 24, 2008 — 808s & Heartbreak is released
- Feb 13, 2009 — So Far Gone is released
- Feb 13, 2009 — Drake releases the 'So Far Gone' mixtape
- Aug 25, 2009 — "Forever" is released
- Sep 7, 2009 — Drake releases 'Forever' featuring Kanye, Lil Wayne, and Eminem
- Sep 8, 2009 — The Blueprint 3 is released
- Sep 13, 2009 — Kanye West interrupts Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards
- Sep 19, 2009 — Jay-Z's 'The Blueprint 3' debuts at #1 — his record-breaking 11th #1 album
- 2010 — Walker Chambliss coins 'cloud rap' to describe Lil B and Main Attrakionz — sub-genre gets a name
- Mar 8, 2010 — Lil Wayne begins eight-month sentence at Rikers Island
- Oct 4, 2010 — "Runaway" is released
- Oct 4, 2010 — Kanye West releases 'Runaway' as the lead single from MBDTF
- Nov 16, 2010 — Jay-Z publishes 'Decoded'
- Nov 22, 2010 — My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is released
- 2011 — SpaceGhostPurrp coins 'phonk' — early-2010s revival of Memphis underground rap aesthetics
- Jul 14, 2011 — Spotify launches in the United States
- Aug 8, 2011 — Watch the Throne is released
- Nov 15, 2011 — Take Care is released
- May 6, 2013 — Lauryn Hill begins three-month federal prison sentence for tax evasion
- Feb 2, 2015 — The Jacka is killed in East Oakland
- Sep 21, 2016 — Shawty Lo dies in an Atlanta car crash
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