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Rap Rap Rap

Rapper’s careers start off, usually on the streets, by going to organised underground clubs, parties and whenever they can get a break to show their skills, and sometimes get picked up by music scouts. Also there are places called battle zones where wannabe rappers go up against other wannabes and have to make up off the top of their heads a rap that disses their opponent. Eminem battle.


The first publicly released hip-hop song was made by Grand Master Flash and was called HIP-HOP.


NICK-ante up

NICK-break ya neck

DRE

Dr Dre became involved in hip-hop during the early '80s, performing at house parties and clubs with the World Class Wreckin' Cru around South Central Los Angeles, and making a handful of recordings along the way. In 1986, he met Ice Cube, and the two rappers began writing songs for Ruthless Records, a label started by former drug pusher Eazy-E. Eazy tried to give one of the duo's songs, "Boyz N the Hood," to HBO, a group signed to Ruthless. W...

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