Old School
Moments (53)
- Mar 6, 1935 — Sylvia Robinson is born
- Feb 16, 1958 — Ice-T is born
- Aug 9, 1959 — Kurtis Blow is born
- Aug 8, 1962 — Kool Moe Dee is born
- Sep 30, 1962 — Marley Marl is born
- May 31, 1964 — DMC is born
- Nov 14, 1964 — Run is born
- Jan 14, 1965 — Slick Rick is born
- Jan 21, 1965 — Jam Master Jay is born
- Jan 22, 1965 — DJ Jazzy Jeff is born
- Apr 28, 1966 — Too Short is born
- Sep 17, 1966 — Doug E. Fresh is born
- Jan 14, 1968 — LL Cool J is born
- Sep 25, 1968 — Will Smith is born
- Nov 9, 1969 — Roxanne Shanté is born
- Aug 11, 1973 — DJ Kool Herc's back-to-school party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue
- Nov 12, 1974 — Afrika Bambaataa forms the Universal Zulu Nation
- 1975 — 13-year-old Grand Wizard Theodore accidentally invents the record scratch
- Jul 13, 1977 — NYC blackout — equipment looting seeds 'a thousand new DJs'
- 1979 — Sylvia and Joe Robinson found Sugar Hill Records
- Mar 1979 — Fatback Band releases 'King Tim III (Personality Jock)' — the first commercial rap recording
- Sep 1979 — Sugar Hill Records releases 'Rapper's Delight'
- Sep 16, 1979 — Sugarhill Gang releases 'Rapper's Delight' — first rap single to crack the Top 40
- Sep 16, 1979 — "Rapper's Delight" is released
- Feb 1980 — Sugarhill Gang is released
- Aug 15, 1980 — "The Breaks" is released
- Dec 8, 1980 — Kurtis Blow's 'The Breaks' is certified gold — the first gold-selling rap single
- Dec 1981 — Kool Moe Dee vs Busy Bee Starski battle at Harlem World
- Apr 1982 — Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force release 'Planet Rock'
- Apr 1, 1982 — "Planet Rock" is released
- Jul 1, 1982 — Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five release 'The Message'
- Jul 1, 1982 — "The Message" is released
- Oct 1, 1982 — The Message is released
- Jan 18, 1983 — 'Style Wars' premieres on PBS
- Mar 18, 1983 — Charlie Ahearn's 'Wild Style' opens theatrically — the first hip-hop feature film
- Dec 9, 1983 — Brian De Palma's 'Scarface' opens — defining iconography for late-80s and 90s hip-hop
- Mar 27, 1984 — Run-D.M.C. is released
- Jun 1984 — UTFO releases 'Roxanne, Roxanne' — triggering the Roxanne Wars
- Jun 1, 1984 — "Roxanne, Roxanne" is released
- Jun 8, 1984 — 'Beat Street' premieres
- Dec 1, 1984 — "Roxanne's Revenge" is released
- Jan 21, 1985 — King of Rock is released
- Jul 1, 1985 — "La Di Da Di" is released
- Jul 1, 1985 — "The Show" is released
- Sep 19, 1985 — PMRC Senate hearings — explicit-lyrics 'Parental Advisory' stickers established
- Oct 25, 1985 — 'Krush Groove' premieres
- Nov 18, 1985 — Radio is released
- May 15, 1986 — Raising Hell is released
- Nov 15, 1986 — Licensed to Ill is released
- Sep 8, 1989 — Keef Cowboy dies
- Mar 12, 2007 — Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — first hip-hop act
- Sep 29, 2011 — Sylvia Robinson dies
- Feb 8, 2018 — Lovebug Starski dies
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