Rap musicians.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Afrika Bambaataa hip hop archive
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8094
Scope and content
Approximately 40,000 sound recordings representing Bambaataa's music collection from the 1970s to the present. The archive also includes books, documents, and files relating to the founding and spread of the Universal Zulu Nation; and videos, papers, and clothing.
Dates:
circa 1972-2016.
Alonzo Williams Hip Hop Collection
Collection
Identifier: 8128
Scope and content
Approximately 200 12" vinyl records, including those used by Dr. Dre and DJ Yella when they deejayed at clubs and parties between 1984 and 1986; 1 Receipt Book, containing signed receipts and payments for studio time featuring signatures of N.W.A. members Eazy-E (Eric Wright), Ice Cube (O'Shea Jackson), Dr. Dre (Andre Young) and other west coast Hip Hop legends; contract between Alonzo Williams and Interscope Records buying back Dr. Dre's master tapes of the unreleased recordings Dre made...
Dates:
1970 - 2007
Andre Manuel Def Row Hip Hop documents
Collection — Manuscript box 89 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113959914]
Identifier: 8131
Scope and content
Four original documents and two photocopied documents relating to the formation of Death Row Records: original copyright document for the "Def Row" name; original handwritten contract outlining the terms of the music production agreement and copyright assignment between Suge Knight, Dr. Dre, and Andre Manuel; final typewritten signed and initialed version of that contract; and the original invitation to the coming out party for Death Row records at Chasen's restaurant in Beverly Hills on...
Dates:
1991-1992.
David Scheinbaum hip hop photographs
Collection
Identifier: 8137
Abstract
Several hundred photographs of Hip Hop artists and musicians, taken primarily during their performances in Albuquerque, NM between 2001 and 2012, along with some additional shows at venues in Oakland and Los Angeles, California.
Dates:
2001 - 2020
E.J. Recordings and Austin Hip Hop Collection
Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113567931]
Identifier: 8116
Scope and content
The collection documents the efforts of Def and his friends and band mates to cultivate and support an emerging local Hip Hop scene in North Austin. It contains 36 flyers, 110 handbills (including duplicates), 12 business cards, 46 photographs, 7 original paste-up designs for flyers, four letters, newspapers clippings, a RUN-DMC poster, and press information for late 1980s rap groups in Austin, Texas. Bands and groups represented include Rockmaster K.J., Horse Thief, The Loud Posse, Street...
Dates:
circa 1988-1993.
Grandmaster Caz archive
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8109
Abstract
Notebooks, photographs, documents, audio and video recordings, clothing and other artifacts by or relating to Grandmaster Caz and his career as a MC, songwriter, and DJ and his activities as an early innovator and participant in Hip Hop culture. Notebooks contain his handwritten lyrics; cassette tapes contain recordings of his live performances with the Cold Crush Brothers, as well as his appearances on radio shows and other events; photograph albums document his performances and activities...
Dates:
circa 1986-2014.
Johan Kugelberg hip hop collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8021
Scope and content
The Johan Kugelberg hip hop collection documents the origins of hip-hop as music, culture and community in the Bronx, NY, and its influence on the history of music, art, performance, and activism in America during the final third of the 20th century and beyond. The collection contains nearly 1,000 recordings (primarily LP records), textile art, books and magazines, and more than 500 original party and club flyers designed by Buddy Esquire and others. It also includes 74 candid hip hop photos...
Dates:
1975 - 2008
Phyllis Pollack papers
Collection
Identifier: 8130
Scope and content
Papers include magazine and newspaper articles, photographs, posters, photocopies and ephemera documenting Hip Hop in the 1980s and 90s. Included are FOIL copies of the FBI's files on Tupac Shakur and Eazy-E, a recording contract for an album featuring Bushwick Bill of the Geto Boys, a press release for NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" video, which was banned by MTV. Other documentation focuses on the rise of gangsta rap, the censorship of rap lyrics and the controversy over the Recording...
Dates:
circa 1985-2000.
Troy L. Smith Collection of Hip Hop Party and Show Tapes
Collection
Identifier: 8127
Scope and content
Approximately 300 Hip Hop party and show tapes collected by Troy L. Smith.
Dates:
1977 - 1986
Tupac Shakur and Digital Underground fan mail
Collection
Identifier: 8132
Scope and content
156 fan letters written to Tupac Shakur within their original envelopes, the majority of which are unopened, variously address c/o Interscope Records, Atlantic Recording Corporation, and others, ca. 1995 and 442 envelopes with content relating to the Digital Underground, mostly unopened, the majority containing fan voting ballots for the Humpty Dance Awards (where fans voted for their favorite song containing a Humpty Dance sample), most addressed to The Humpty Dance Awards, 1993.
Dates:
1993-1995.