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The history of hip-hop dances encompasses the people and events since the late 1960s that have contributed to the development of early hip-hop dance styles, such as uprock, breaking, locking, roboting, boogaloo, and popping. African Americans created uprock and breaking in New York City. African Americans in California created locking, roboting ...
Mary Jane Blige (/ b l aɪ ʒ / BLYZHE; born January 11, 1971) [5] is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, and actress. Often referred to as the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul" and "Queen of R&B", Blige has won nine Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, four American Music Awards, twelve NAACP Image Awards, and twelve Billboard Music Awards, including the Billboard Icon Award.
White Bear Lake (Minnesota) / 45.07472°N 92.97806°W / 45.07472; -92.97806. White Bear Lake ( Dakota: Bde Maṭo Ská ) is a lake in northeastern Ramsey County and western Washington County in the U.S. state of Minnesota, in the northeast part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. [2] The city of White Bear Lake takes its name ...
Hip hop or hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, [1] [2] starting in the Bronx, New York City. [a] Pioneered from Black American street culture, [4] [5] that had been around for years prior to its more mainstream discovery, [6] it later reached other groups such as Latino Americans and Caribbean Americans.
Southern hip hop. Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or dirty south, is a blanket term for a regional genre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Florida —often titled “The Big 5,” five states which constitute the ...
Bo Diddley was born in McComb, Mississippi, [ nb 1] as Ellas Otha Bates (also stated as Otha Ellas Bates or Elias Otha Bates). [ 16] He was the only child of Ethel Wilson, a sharecropper's teenaged daughter, and Eugene Bates, [ 17] whom he never knew. Wilson was only sixteen, and being unable to support a family, she gave her cousin, Gussie ...
Chuck Philips, Los Angeles Times, 1992 Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of inner-city American black youths. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word gangster. The genre was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Schoolly D and Ice-T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like N.W.A. In 1985 Schoolly D released "P ...
White Bear Lake, Minnesota. / 45.06389°N 93.00833°W / 45.06389; -93.00833. White Bear Lake is a city in Ramsey County in the state of Minnesota, United States. A small portion of the city also extends into Washington County. The population was 24,883 at the 2020 census. [ 3]