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Oran "Juice" Jones is an R&B singer who started his career in the late 1980s. His song "The Rain" was a hit when it was released in 1986 and was number nine on the Billboard Hot 100. Read More

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Melle Mel (Grandmaster Melle Mel) was the original lead vocalist and songwriter for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. This album was released the same year as the album,Stepping Off. Read More

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Stetsasonic is a hip-hop band from Brooklyn, New York that was founded in 1981. Members of the band include Prince Paul, MC Delite, Wise, Daddy-O, and Bobby Simmons. As well as past members Frukwan and DBC. Read More

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"Synergy" was released by the group Project 5 in 1983. The song was a part of the Electronic genre.

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"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.

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Laid Back is a duo from Copenhagen, Denmark that was formed in 1979. The duo consists of John Guldberg and Tim Stahl and they created electronic music. They are best known for their two hits in 1983, "Sunshine Reggae" and "White Horse." Read More

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Dimples D (Crystal Smith) is a rapper and one-hit-wonder who started her career in 1990. She worked with Marley Marl as a vocalist for the single, "Sucker DJ's."Read More

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Kool G Rap & DJ Polo first started collaborating in the late 1980s. They used the studio of Juice Crew producer, Mr. Magic, and DJ Marley Marl to record their first single which was titled "It's a Demo." Because of how impressed Marly Marl was,…

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Self Destruction is the only single that was produced by the Stop the Violence Movement which was a collective of artists and songwriters that was formed by KRS-One in 1988 to respond to the increasing and alarming amounts of violence within the hip…

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EPMD is a hip-hop duo from Brentwood, New York that was formed in 1987. The name of the group was a concatenation of the names of the members, E was for Erick Sermon and PMD was for Parrish Smith (also known as Parrish Mic Doc). The single "SO Wat…
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