The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
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Rap Attack (radio program)
“Rapper’s Delight” (The Sugarhill Gang)
Ratatouille (movie)
Raymer, Miles
RCA Records
“Ready or Not” (The Fugees)
Ready to Die (album)
Reasonable Doubt (album)
“Rebel Without a Pause” (Public Enemy)
“Rebirth of Slick” (Digable Planets)
Recording Industry Association of America
Redding, Otis
Red Lobster (restaurant chain)
“Regrets” (Jay Z)
Regulate . . . G Funk Era (album)
“Renee” (Lost Boyz)
“Renegade” (Jay Z, featuring Eminem)
Reno, Janet
“Respect Us” (Hot Boys)
Resurrection (album)
Resurrection (documentary)
Rhyme & Reason (documentary)
Rhymefest (artist)
Rhyme Pays (album)
“Rhymin’ and Rappin’” (Paulette and Tanya Winley)
Rich Boy
Rich Gang
Rich Homie Quan
Rick Ross
Riff Raff
Rifkind, Steve
rivalries
chart
“Takeover” vs. “Ether”
Tupac vs. Biggie
Rivera, Lance
Roberts, Randall
Robinson, Sylvia
Roc-A-Fella label
Rock, Chris
Rock, Pete
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
“Rock the Bells” (LL Cool J)
Rockwell (pop artist)
Rodgers, Nile
Rolle, Ralph
Rolling Stone (magazine)
RollingStone.com
Roots, The
Rosenthal, Jeff
“Roses” (Outkast)
Ross, Rick. See Rick Ross
“Roxanne, Roxanne” (U.T.F.O)
“Roxanne’s a Man (The Untold Story)” (Ralph Rolle)
Roxanne Shanté
“Roxanne’s Revenge” (Roxanne Shanté)
Rubin, Rick
“Ruff Ryders’ Anthem” (DMX)
“Rump Shaker” (Wreckx-NEffect)
Run-DMC
Run’s House (TV show)
Run the Jewels (duo)
Ruthless Records
Ryan, Chris
RZA
S
“Sadie” (The Spinners)
“Same Love” (Macklemore and Ryan Lewis)
Sample, Joe
Samuels, David
San Antonio Spurs (basketball team)
Sanneh, Kelefa
Sarig, Roni
Saturday Night Live (TV show)
Saverin, Eduardo
Scarface (rapper)
Scarface (movie)
Schoolly D
Schwimmer, David
scratching
Screw, DJ
Sermon, Erick
Sesame Street (TV show)
Shakur, Afeni (mother of Tupac)
Shakur, Sekyiwa (sister of Tupac)
Shakur, Tupac. See Tupac
Shanté, Roxanne
Sharknado 2 (movie)
Sha-Rock
Shawnna (rapper)
Sheila E.
Shoals, Bethlehem
“Shook Ones Pt. 2” (Mobb Deep)
Siffre, Labi
Silkk the Shocker
Simmons, Joseph
Simmons, Russell
Simon Wiesenthal Center
Sinatra, Frank
“Single Ladies” (Beyoncé)
Sire Records
Sisqó
Sittin’ Fat Down South (album)
“6 in the Mornin’” (Ice-T)
60 Minutes (TV show)
Ski Beatz
Skiles, Scott
slam dunk contest
Slang, Houston (chart)
Slick Rick
Slim Shady LP, The (album)
Slim Thug
“Slippin” (DMX)
Smith, Anthony
Smith, Jada Pinkett
Smith, James Todd
Smith, Larry
Smith, Will
Smooth, C. L.
Snell, Dr. R. J.
Snoop Dogg
Social Network, The (movie)
Soderberg, Brandon
So Far Gone (album)
“So Fresh, So Clean” (Outkast)
“Somebody’s Watching Me” (Rockwell)
Sony Music
Soulja Boy
Souls of Black Folk, The (Du Bois)
Soulsonic Force
Sounds of Science, The (album)
Source, The (magazine)
Source Awards
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (album)
“So What’cha Want” (Beastie Boys)
Spears, Britney
“Speedin” (Rick Ross)
Spin (magazine)
Spinners, The
Spirer, Peter
Spoonie Gee
Stacey Dash
“Stan” (Elton John and Eminem)
Steam (band)
Stein, Chris
Stephenson, Lance
Steward, Tricky
Stillmatic (album)
“Stillmatic (Freestyle)” (Nas)
“Still Tippin’” (Mike Jones, featuring Slim Thug and Paul Wall)
Stompanato, Johnny
“Stoner” (Young Thug)
Straight Outta Compton (album)
“Straight Outta Compton” (N.W.A)
Streisand, Barbra
Stress: The Extinction Agenda (album)
Strictly Business (album)
strippers
“Style Grids”
“Style Maps”
“Big Pimpin’”
“California Love”
“C.R.E.A.M”
“Dear Mama”
“Fight the Power”
“Grindin’”
“Hustlin’”
“Jazzy Sensation”
“La Di Da Di”
“Lifestyle”
“Milli, A”
“Mind Playing Tricks On Me”
“Monster”
“Paid in Full”
“Rapper’s Delight”
“Same Love”
“Sucker M.C.’s”
“Sucker M.C.’s” (Run-DMC)
Sugarhill Gang, The
Sugar Hill Records
“Suicidal Thoughts” (The Notorious B.I.G.)
Summer, Donna
Sundae (rapper)
Sun Rises in the East, The (album)
Supa Dupa Fly (album)
Superman
Super Tight (album)
“Super Ugly” (Jay Z)
“Swagga Like Us” (Jay Z and T.I., featuring Lil Wayne and Kanye West)
Swear Words, N.W.A (chart)
Swift, Taylor
Swishahouse record label
“Switch Up” (Big Sean, featuring Common)
Swizz Beatz
symbols, style charts
T
Take Care (album)
Taken (movie)
“Takeover” vs. “Ether” (Jay Z vs. Nas)
Talib Kweli
“Talk to ’Em” (Young Jeezy)
Taylor, Chris “The Glove”
Tech N9ne
“Teenage Love” (Slick Rick)
Teflon Don (album)
“Tennessee” (Arrested Development)
“10,000 Bars” (Lil Wayne)
Tha Carter II (album)
Tha Carter III (album)
“Tha Crossroads” (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
Tha Dogg Pound
Thank Me Later (album)
“That’s the Joint” (Funky 4 + 1)
There’s a God on the Mic: The True 50 Greatest MCs (Kool Moe Dee)
Third Coast: OutKast, Timbaland & How Hip-Hop Became a Southern Thing (Sarig)
“Thong Song” (Sisqó)
Three 6 Mafia
Three Tough Guys (movie)
“Thrift Shop” (Macklemore)
“Throw Some D’s” (Rich Boy, featuring Polow Da Don)
“Thuggin’” (Gibbs)
“Thuggish Ruggish Bone” (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
T.I.
Tical (album)
Timbaland
Timberlake, Justin
Timberwolves (basketball team)
Tina B
T La Rock
TLC
Toddy Tee
Tommy Boy (record label)
Tone Loc
“Too Close” (Next)
Too Hard to Swallow (album)
Toomp, DJ
Toop, David
Too Short (rapper)
Top Five (movie)
Total (album)
Total (group)
Tougher Than Leather (album)
T-Pain
Trackmasters (production team)
Treacherous Three, The
Tribe Called Quest, A
Trilla (album)
Troutman, Roger
Trust (movie)
Tupac
Tutu (album)
“21 Questions” (50 Cent, featuring Nate Dogg)
20/20 (TV show)
2 Chainz
2 Live Crew
Tyson, Mike
U
UGK
Underwood, Blair
Universal Music Group
University of Missouri
Untouchable, The (album)
“Up from the Underground” (documentary episode)
“Up Jumps Da Boogie” (Timbaland and Magoo, featuring Aaliyah and Missy Elliott)
Uptown Records
URB (magazine)
U.T.F.O.
V
Vanilla Ice
Van Peebles, Mario
Vernon, Justin
VH1
Vibe (magazine)
Video Music Box (TV show)
Village Voice (newspaper)
Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop music critics poll
Vol. 2 . . . Hard Knock Life (album)
Vol. 3 . . . Life and Times of S. Carter (album)
Vulture.com
W
Waka Flocka Flame
Wale
“Walkin’ on Air” (Rick Ross)
“Walk This Way” (Run-DMC)
“Wanna Be a Baller” (Lil’ Troy)
Warner Bros. Records
Warped Tour
Warren G.
Washington, Denzel
Washington Post (newspaper)
Watch the Throne (album)
Waters, Maxine
Watkins, Ralph Basui
Watts, Michael
Wax Poetics (magazine)
Wayans, Damon
We Can’t Be Stopped (album)
Weingarten, Chris
Weirdo (magazine)
Weiss, Barry
“Welcome to the Terrordome” (Public Enemy)
West, Kanye
Westhoff, Ben
“We Will Survive” (Nas)
“What Obama Can Learn from Jay-Z” (Samuels)
“What’s Yo Psycho?” (Tech N9ne, featuring Brotha Lynch Hung and Sundae)
“What You Know” (T.I.)
“What You Want” (Mase, featuring Total)
“Where I’m From” (Jay Z)
White, Jarobi
“White Lines (Don’t Don’t Do It)” (Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel)
“Who Am I (What’s My Name)?” (Snoop Dogg)
“Who Dat” (JT Money)
Whodini
“Whodini Makes ‘Friends’ at Radio, Retail” (Billboard magazine article)
Who Is Mike Jones? (album)
“Who Killed It?” (Nas)
“Who Shot Ya” (The Notorious B.I.G.)
“Widdling Down Infinity” (Perkins) (magazine article)
Wilder, Matthew
“Wild Thing” (Tone Loc)
Williams, Hype
Williams, Juan
Williams, Pharrell
Williams, Salih
Williams, Shatasha
Willie D
Willie Hutch
Winfrey, Oprah
Winley, Paul, Paulette, and Tanya
Winley Records
“Wino and the Junkie, The” (Richard Pryor)
Winslow, Michael
Wire, The (TV show)
women and rap
See also misogyny; see also
specific women rappers by
name
Wonder, Stevie
Wonder Mike
Word . . . Life (album)
“Work It” (Missy Elliott)
Worth Tha Weight (album)
Wreckx-N-Effect
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Manual, The (RZA and Morris)
X
XXL (magazine)
XXL (website)
Y
Yella, DJ
Yo! Bum Rush the Show (album)
“You Got Me” (The Roots, featuring Erykah Badu and Eve)
Young Jeezy
Young MC
Young Money Records
Young Thug
“You’re All I Need” (various artists)
Z
Zapp (band)
Zuckerberg, Mark
Zulu Nation
“Zulu Nation Throwdown” (Afrika Bambaataa)
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