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Hip-Hop History

From a Bronx block party to the Pulitzer Prize. Spin through DJs, crews, labels and landmark albums and find out if your knowledge has real flow.

🎸 Music medium 20 questions ~7 min

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What this quiz asks

In which New York City borough was hip-hop born in the 1970s?
Which Jamaican-born DJ hosted that 1973 back-to-school party, now seen as hip-hop's starting point?
Which 1979 Sugarhill Gang single was the first rap record to reach the US Top 40?
Run-DMC's 1986 version of Walk This Way was recorded together with the rock band Aerosmith.
After Run-DMC released a 1986 song praising their favourite pair of these, which brand signed them up?
Which group released The Message in 1982, a landmark of socially conscious rap?
Who co-founded the label Def Jam Recordings with Russell Simmons in 1984?
Which Los Angeles-area group released the 1988 album Straight Outta Compton?
Select ALL of these rappers who were members of the Wu-Tang Clan.
In what year did the Grammy Awards first hand out a prize for Best Rap Performance?
Order these hip-hop albums by release year, earliest first.
Was the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill the first rap album to reach number one on the Billboard 200?
Hip-hop culture is traditionally said to have four elements: DJing, MCing, breakdancing and graffiti.
The Notorious B.I.G. was the star signing of which label founded by Sean Combs?
Which Queens group debuted in 1990 with People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm?
Select ALL of these hip-hop acts from Atlanta.
Which 1982 electro track by Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force borrowed a melody from Kraftwerk?
Which rapper co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records with Damon Dash and Kareem Burke?
Which rapper won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music, a first for a hip-hop artist?
Which Bronx DJ is credited with inventing the scratch as a teenager in the mid-1970s?