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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
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Afrika Bambaataa
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Keith Leblanc
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Russell Simmons
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Jalal Nuradeen
Producer:
Paul Kent

BBC Radio 1 England

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BBC Radio 1 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967.

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