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The Story of Pop

BBC Radio 1
on BBC Radio 1 England

The definitive history of pop. 42: Rap It Up. Tonight is the first of two programmes on rap and hip-hop, looking back at rap's origins in West African Griot music through to prison chants in the Deep South and Jamaican toasters.
Grandmaster Flash, Sugar Hill and Def Jam broke through to make rap the music phenomenon of the 80s. With Grandmaster
Flash, Rick Rubin ,
Afrika Bambaataa , Keith LeBlanc , Russell Simmons and Jalal Nuradeen
.
Producer Paul Kent

Contributors

Unknown:
Rick Rubin
Unknown:
Afrika Bambaataa
Unknown:
Keith Leblanc
Unknown:
Russell Simmons
Unknown:
Jalal Nuradeen
Producer:
Paul Kent
Source: Radio Times

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