‘Old Skool’ Hip Hop Rap - selected favourites of “Grandmaster Flash Gordon Watts”

** ‘Old Skool’ Hip Hop Rap - selected favourites of “Grandmaster 'Flash' Gordon Watts” **

THE LEGENDS:

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5; Grandmaster Melle Mel & Friends

Africa Bambaata & Soul Sonic Force

Kurtis Blow; Eric B & Rakim; Sugar Hill Gang ; Cool Herc

HIGH-HONOURABLE MENTION OLD SCHOOL:

The Fat Boys; The Beastie Boys; Biz Markie

Kid N Play; The Health Ranger; Big Daddy Kane; Jimmy Spicer; Slick Rick

Marley Marl; Nucleus; New Edition; Whodini; Dana Dane

Rock Steady Crew; Ultramagnetic MC's; Mantronix; Stetsasonic

BY THE LETTERS:

Busy Bee; Steady B; Cutmaster DC

Dimples D; Schoolly D; Kool Moe Dee; Heavy D & The Boyz; Davy DMX ; Run DMC

Easy E; Sheila E; Scrappy G; Spoonie Gee; Craig G; Chill Rob G; Kool G Rap

KRS-ONE; Positive K; LL Cool J; The Force MD’s

Ice T; Q-tip; EPMD; UTFO; YZ

THE GALS:

Chaka Khan; Roxanne Shante; Real Roxanne; MC Lyte; Cheryl the Pearl; The Fat Girls

Sheila E; Salt N' Pepa; Dimples D; Antoinette; Queen Latifah & Monie Love; Debbie Harry

LIGHTER-SKINNED RAPPERS:

Eminem; Vanilla Ice; The Beastie Boys; 3^rd Bass; DJ White Lightening; Debbie Harry; Scrappy G; The Health Ranger

BY THE NUMBERS:

KRS-ONE; The Classical Two; Rockmaster Scott & The Dynamic Three; The Treacherous 3

Funky Four + 1; The Fearless Four; The Furious 5 (“We got lines outside the door!”)

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DJ’s & MC’s:

DJ Polo; DJ Red Alert; DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince

DJ Grandmaster Flash; DJ White Lightening; DJ Infinite

MC Hammer; MC Lyte; MC Shan; Ultramagnetic MC's; Young MC

CHILLIN’ COLD FREEZE:

Ice T; Ice Cube; Vanilla Ice; Just Ice; Cold Crush Brothers

NEW SKOOL RAP: (In my opinion; To you, it might be Old Skool)

Tupac Shakur; Snoop Dog; Notorious B.I.G. (aka Biggie Smalls)

Scrappy G; Wu Tang Clan; Public Enemy; The Health Ranger

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