emceeing
Eminem
Eminem Show, The (album)
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (album)
EPMD
Epps, Omar
Eric B. & Rakim
“Eric B. Is President” (Eric B. & Rakim)
Escape (album)
Escobar, Pablo
eskay
ESPY awards
Esquire (magazine)
E.T. (movie)
“Ether” vs. “Takeover” (Nas vs. Jay Z)
Evans, Faith
“Ever So Clear” (Bushwick Bill)
F
Facebook, launch of
Faith (album)
“Fancy” (Drake)
Fatback Band
Fat Boys
“Fat Girl” (N.W.A)
FBI
“Fear of a Black Planet” (Public Enemy)
“Feel So Good” (Mase)
Fennessy, Sean
50 Cent
“Fight the Power” (Public Enemy)
Fisher, Derek
“Five Minutes of Funk” (Whodini)
Five Percent Nation
Flavor Flav
Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood (album)
Fletcher, Ed “Duke Bootee”
Fletcher, John
Follow the Leader (album)
Fontaine, Smokey D.
Forbes (magazine)
Forbes.com
For Emma, Forever Ago (album)
Foxx, Jamie
“Freaks Come Out at Night” (Whodini)
Freeway Rick
Freeze, Mr.
Fresh Fest tour
Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The (TV show)
Friends (TV show)
“Friends” (Whodini)
“Fuck Tha Police” (N.W.A)
“Fuck wit Dre Day” (Dr. Dre, featuring Snoop Dogg)
Fugees, The
Funkadelic
Funkdafied (album)
Funky 4 + 1
“Funky Sensation” (Gwen McCrae)
G
Game, The (rapper)
gangsta rap
Gangsta Rappers (chart)
Gang Starr
Garfield, Andrew
Garland, Billy (father of Tupac)
Garnett, Kevin
Garvey, Meghan
gay and lesbian marriages
Geffen Records
George, Nelson
“Get at Me Dog” (DMX)
Geto Boys
Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (album)
G-Funk
Ghostface Killah
Gibbs, Freddie
Ginobili, Manu
Glover, Danny
Glover, Donald
“Go Crazy” (Young Jeezy, featuring Jay Z)
God Forgives, I Don’t (album)
Gold Digger (chart)
“Gold Digger” (Kanye West, featuring Jamie Foxx)
Gonzalez, Anthony
Gooden, Lolita Shanté
“Good Life” (Kanye West, featuring T-Pain)
GOOD Music label
“Good Times” (Chic)
Gore, Tipper
Gotti, Irv
GQ (magazine)
Graduation (album)
Graffiti Rock (TV show)
Grandmaster Caz
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Grantland (website)
Gravediggaz
Greene, Jayson
“Grindin’” (The Clipse)
“Guap” (Big Sean)
Guardian, The (newspaper)
Gucci Mane
“Guilty Conscience” (Dr. Dre and Eminem)
GZA
H
“Ha” (Juvenile)
Hall of Fame (album)
“H.A.M.” (Jay Z and Kanye West)
Hanson
“Hard in the Paint” (Waka Flocka Flame)
“Hard Times” (Kurtis Blow)
Hard to Earn (album)
Hardy, Tom
Harlem Underground Band
Harlem World’s Christmas Rappers Convention
Harvilla, Rob
Hayes, Isaac
HBO (duo)
HBO television network
“Heat” (50 Cent)
Heist, The (album)
Hermes, Will
He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper (album)
Higher Learning (movie)
Hill, Lauryn
hip-hop, history
Hip Hop America (George)
Hip Hop Is Dead (album)
Hip-Hop Redemption: Finding God in the Rhythm and the Rhyme (Watkins)
History of Rock ’n’ Roll, The (documentary)
“Hit ’Em Up” (Tupac)
Hoberek, Andrew
“Holler If Ya Hear Me” (Tupac)
Holler If You Hear Me (Dyson)
“Honey” (Mariah Carey)
hooks in songs
Hopkins, Jermaine “Huggy”
Hopper, Dennis
Hopper, Jessica
Hot 97’s Summer Jam concert
Hot Boys
House of Pain
Houston, TX
Houston Slang (chart)
Howard, Greg
Howard Stern Show
“How’s It Goin’ Down” (DMX, featuring Faith Evans)
“How to Rob” (50 Cent)
“How We Gonna Make the Black Nation Rise?” (Collective Effort)
“How Ya Do Dat” (C-Loc and Master P)
“H to the IZZO” (Jay Z)
Hugo, Chad
“Human Beat Box” (Fat Boys)
“Hung Up on My Baby” (Isaac Hayes)
Hurricane Katrina
“Hustlin’” (Rick Ross)
Hutchins, Jalil
“Hypnotize” (The Notorious B.I.G.)
I
“I Ain’t Mad at Cha” (Tupac)
“I Can’t Stand the Rain” (Ann Peebles)
Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood (Ice-T and Century)
Ice Cube
Ice-T
“I Choose You” (Willie Hutch)
“I Feel Like Dying” (Lil Wayne)
“I Get Around” (Tupac)
“I Got a Woman” (Ray Charles)
“I Got the (Blues)” (Labi Siffre)
“I’ll Be Missing You” (Puff Daddy, Faith Evans, and 112)
“I’ll Be There for You/You’re All I Need to Get By” (Method Man, featuring Mary J. Blige)
Illmatic (album)
“Imaginary Player” (Jay Z)
“I’m a Ho” (Whodini)
“I’m Bad” (LL Cool J)
“I’m Different” (2 Chainz)
“I Miss My Homies” (Master P, featuring Pimp C and Silkk the Shocker)
Immortal Technique
“Imp the Dimp” (nickname for Big Bank Hank)
“I’m Wit It” (Too Short)
“In All My Wildest Dreams” (Joe Sample)
“In Da Club” (50 Cent)
“I Need a Hot Girl” (Hot Boys and Big Tymers)
“I Need Love” (LL Cool J)
Infinite (album)
In My Lifetime, Vol. 1. (album)
“Insane in the Brain” (Cypress Hill)
“International Players Anthem” (UGK, featuring Outkast)
International Players Quiz
“I Stand Alone” (Theophilus London)
“It’s a Man’s World” (Ice Cube)
It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot (album)
“It’s Hot” (Jay Z)
“It’s Like That” (Run-DMC)
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (album)
Iverson, Allen
I Wear the Black Hat (Klosterman)
“Izzo” (Jay Z)
J
Jackson, Samuel L.
James, Bob
James, Rick
James Bond movies
Jam Master Jay
Ja Rule
Jay Electronica
Jay Z
Jazzy Five, The
Jazzy J and the Fresh Prince. See DJ Jazzy J and the Fresh Prince
“Jazzy Sensation” (Afrika Bambaataa and the Jazzy Five)
Jello Biafra
Jenkins, Craig
Jeru the Damaja
“Jesus Walks” (Kanye West)
Jive Records
John, Elton
Johnny C
Jones, Bomani
Jones, Mike
Jordan, Michael
J. Prince
JT Money
Judas Priest
Juice (movie)
“Juicy” (The Notorious B.I.G.)
“Juicy Fruit” (Mtume)
Juicy J
“Jump” (Kris Kross)
“Jump Around” (House of Pain)
Jungle Brothers
Juno Awards
“Just a Friend” (Biz Markie)
Juvenile (rapper)
K
Kaczynski, Ted
Kanye West. See West, Kanye
Kardashian, Kim
KDAY (radio station)
“Keep Ya Head Up” (Tupac)
Kendrick Lamar
Kentucky Wildcats (basketball team)
Khaled, DJ
Kid Cudi
Killer Mike
Kilmer, Val
“Kim” (Eminem)
King of Rock (album)
“King of Rock” (Run-DMC)
“King Tim III” (Fatback Band)
Klosterman, Chuck
Knight, Suge
“Knuck If You Buck” (Crime Mob, featuring Lil Scrappy)
Kool Herc, DJ
Kool Moe Dee
Korn
Kraftwerk
KRS-One
Krush Groove (movie)
Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Blow (album)
L
“La Di Da Di” (Slick Rick and Doug E. Fresh)
Lamar, Kendrick
Lambert, Mary
Lambert, Molly
La Rock, DJ Scott
Late Registration (album)
LA Weekly (newspaper)
Lee, Lisa
Lee, Spike
Legend of the Wu-Tang (album)
“Lemonade” (Gucci Mane)
Les, A. J.
lesbian and gay marriages
“Let Me Ride” (Dr. Dre)
Lewis, Ryan
Library of Congress
Life After Death (album)
Life and Def: Sex, Drugs, Money, and God (Simmons)
“Lifestyle” (Rich Gang, featuring Young Thug and Rich Homie Quan)
“Light, The” (Common)
Lil’ Kim
Lil Scrappy
Lil’ Troy
Lil Wayne
Liquid Swords (album)
Lisa Lee
Little Big Man (album)
“Live Now” (Nas)
LL Cool J
Lobenfeld, Claire
Lohan, Lindsay
Lois Lane (Superman character)
“Lollipop” (Lil Wayne)
“Lose Yourself” (Eminem)
Lost Boyz
Loud Records
Lover, Ed
“Lover in You, The” (The Sugarhill Gang)
Low End Theory, The (album)
Ludacris
luxury rap
Lyte as a Rock (album)
M
Mack, Craig
Macklemore
Mac Miller
“Made You Look” (Nas)
Magoo
Main Ingredient, The (album)
Major League II (movie)
“Make ’Em Say Uhh” (Master P)
“Making Cash Money” (Busy Bee)
Making the Band (TV show)
Making the Video (TV show)
Malice (No Malice)
Maloney, Devon
Mane, Gucci
Marbury, Stephon
Markman, Rob
Marly Marl
Marshall Mathers LP, The (album)
Martin, Lionel C.
Martin Luther King holiday
Mase
“Massive Attack” (Nicki Minaj)
Master Bee
Master Dee
Master Gee
Master Ice
Master P
Mathers, Debbie (mother of Eminem)
Matrix, The (movie)
Mauldin, Michael
Maybach Music Group record label
MC 900 Ft Jesus
McCartney, Paul
McCrae, Gwen
McDaniels, Ralph
MC Lyte
MC Ren
Mc Shan
“Me & My Bitch” (The Notorious B.I.G.)
Meadows-Ingram, Benjamin
Me Against the World (album)
Mean Girls (movie)
Melle Mel
Mercury Records
“Message, The” (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)
“Message, The” (Nas)
Method Man
M.I.A.
Midnight Marauders (album)
Mike D
“Milli, A” (Lil Wayne)
Minaj, Nicki
“Mind of a Lunatic” (Geto Boys)
“Mind Playing Tricks On Me” (Geto Boys)
misogyny
“MMMBop” (Hanson)
Mobb Deep
“Mo Money Mo Problems” (The Notorious B.I.G, Puff Daddy, and Mase)
“Monster” (Kanye West, featuring Rick Ross, Jay Z, Bon Iver, and Nicki Minaj)
Monsters, Inc. (movie)
Morris, Wesley
Mos Def
movies,
rappers in
rap songs in
See also Juice (movie)
Mr. Freeze
Mtume (band)
MTV
Mullin, Chris
murder
of 50 Cent’s mother
of Biggie
in “Control” (Big Sean, featuring Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica)
Geto Boys and
Ice-T and
in “Just the Two of Us” (Eminem)
of Tupac
Murder Was the Case: The Soundtrack (album)
Murs
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (album)
Myers, Mike
“My Melody” (Eric B. and Rakim)
“My Mind Right” (Memphis Bleek)
“My Name Is” (Eminem)
Mystic Stylez (album)
N
Napoleon Dynamite (movie)
Nas
Nate Dogg
National Recording Registry
Native Tongues
“Nautilus” (Bob James)
NBA
Neptunes, The (production duo)
New Jack City (movie)
“New Slaves” (Kanye West)
New York (magazine)
“New York, New York” (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)
New York Times (newspaper)
Next (group)
Nicki Minaj
“Niggas in Paris” (Jay Z and Kanye West)
“Nightmare on My Street, A” (DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince)
“Night of the Living Baseheads” (Public Enemy)
“911 Is a Joke” (Public Enemy)
“9mm Goes Bang” (Boogie Down Productions)
NME website
“No Diggity” (Blackstreet)
No Limit label
No Malice
“No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)” (Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand)
“No New Friends” (DJ Khaled)
Noriega, Manuel
Norris, John
Nostro, Lauren
Nothing Was the Same (album)
“No Time” (Lil’ Kim, featuring Puff Daddy)
“(Not Just) Knee Deep” (Funkadelic)
Notorious B.I.G., The (Biggie)
No Way Out (album)
“Nuthin’ but a ‘
G’ Thang” (chart)
“Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang” (Dr. Dre, featuring Snoop Dogg)
N.W.A
N.W.A Swear Words (chart)
“N.Y. State of Mind” (Nas)
O
Obama, Barack
O.C. (artist)
Occupy Wall Street
Ocean, Frank
ODB
“Oh Yeah!” (Big Tymers, featuring Boo and Gotti)
Olajuwon, Hakeem
Ol’ Dirty Bastard
Old Money Records
Olivia (R&B singer)
Olympic basketball team
Olympics 2004
112 (band)
“1-800-Suicide” (Gravediggaz)
“One Love” (Whodini)
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (album)
“Only One” (Paul McCartney and Kanye West)
On the Outside Looking In (album)
Oprah. See Winfrey, Oprah
Oprah Winfrey Show, The
Organized Konfusion
Ortega, Sergio
Ossé, Reggie
“Otis” (Jay Z and Kanye West)
Outkast
P
Paid in Full (album)
“Paid in Full” (Erik B. and Rakim)
Paper Trail (album)
Pappademas, Alex
“Parents Just Don’t Understand” (Fresh Prince and DJ Jazzy Jeff)
Parents Music Resource Center
Parker, Sean
“Party Up (Up in Here)” (DMX)
“Passin’ Me By” (The Pharcyde)
Paul Wall
Peebles, Ann
Penn, Sean
People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (album)
Perkins, Brandon
Permanent Vacation (album)
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth
Pharcyde, The
Pimp C
Pink Friday (album)
Pitbull
Pitchfork (website)
Pizarro, Tony
“Planet Rock” (Afrika Bambaataa)
Playboy (magazine)
Plies (rapper)
Poetic Justice (movie)
Poke (music producer)
Police Academy (movie)
“Pollywanacraka” (Public Enemy)
Polo Grounds Music
Polow Da Don
Pop Rap Index (chart)
Pratt, Elmer “Geronimo”
“Prayer (Skit)” (DMX)
Prince, J.
Prince, Jas
Prince Paul
Priority Records
Profile Records
Program, The (movie)
Project: Funk Da World (album)
“Protect Ya Neck” (Wu-Tang Clan)
Pryor, Richard
“P.S.K.” (Schoolly D)
Public Enemy
Puff Daddy
“Purple Swag” (A$AP Rocky)
Pusha T
“Push It” (Rick Ross)
Q
Q-Tip
Quad Studios
Quick, DJ
Quilapayún
Quit It (chart)
R
Radio (album)
Raekwon (rapper)
“Rain, The” (Missy Elliott, featuring Timbaland)
Raising Hell (album)
Rakim. See Eric B. & Rakim
Rap-A-Lot Records
Rapaport, Michael
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