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This single was released by Jack "Soldier Boy" Spades in 1988. Some of the songs on this album were released as theme songs for a blaxploitation parody film.

Ice-T (Tracy Lauren Marrow) is a rapper, songwriter, actor, and producer. He started his career as a rapper in the early 1980s. The songs on this record, are from his second album, Power,which was released in 1988.Read More

"Rockit" is a jazz composition performed and recorded by pianist Herbie Hancock. Read More

Heavy D (Dwight Arrington Myers) was a Jamaican-born rapper, producer, singer, and actor who started his career in 1986. Read More

"Out of Touch" was released on Hall & Oates 12th studio album titledBig Bam Boomwhich was released in 1984. The song was later released as a 12" vinyl. Read More

This album was released in 1984. It was recorded by the Sugar Hill LAbel and featured Mr. Ness (Edward Ness).

"SuperRappin" was released in 1979 as a single 12" by Grandmaster Flash. Before later being re-released on an album of the same name in 1996.

The song, "It's Nasty (Genius of Love)" was originally released as a single in 1981 before being placed on being later released in October 1982 on the album The Message. Read More

"The Message" was released in July of 1982 as a single by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. The song provided social commentary on the stresses and experiences of inner-city poverty. The song pushed for a space within rap music for artists to…

Grandmaster Flash is one of the original innovators of Hip Hop. Through the creation of the style of beat looping by manipulating music through the use of placing his fingers on the vinyl, he became a pioneer for sampling and made the genre what it…