Hip-Hop / Rap

All Let It Roll episodes covering the Hip-Hop genre and Rap music.

Let It Roll Originals

• Grandmaster Flash brought turntablism to Hip-Hop

• Vybz Kartel's Career Arc Landed Jamaica's Most Important 21st Century Musician in Prison

• DJ Screw Slowed Hip-Hop Down and Built a Home Grown Empire in Houston

• J Dilla Transformed Time for Q-Tip, the Pharcyde, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu & Common

• The Wu Tang Clan's Brilliant Business Plan Was Great While It Lasted

• Future, Young Thug, Migos and Vybz Kartel Have Used Autotune to Create a Vibrant Vocal Psychedelia

• Marley Marl, Big Daddy Kane, Biz Markie & The Juice Crew Perfected Hip-Hop In The 1980s

• Emperor Moguls of Rap: Dr Dre, Diddy and Jay-Z

• The Entrepreneurs of Early Hip-Hop: Sugar Hill & Def Jam

‘80s Roll

• 80s Roll 9: Run-DMC revolutionized hip-hop in the year of "Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo”

TechnoRoll

• TechnoRoll 3.3: Madchester and Hip-House Don't Quite Make It In the States, But Rave Took Root in Southern California

• TechnoRoll 2.14: Tricky, Portishead and Massive Attack Took Trip-Hop Straight Out of Bristol

• TechnoRoll 2.11: Jungle Brought Hip-Hop & Reggae Elements Back Into UK’s Rave Scene

• Technoroll 10: Afrika Bambaataa Distils Electro and Hip-Hop

• Technoroll 9: Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, & Afrika Bambaata Invent Hip-Hop

• Technoroll 8: Before Hip-Hop Disco DJ's Like Grandmaster Flowers & DJ Hollywood Set the Stage

• Technoroll 2: The First DJs On the Radio and In the Clubs

• Technoroll: The History of DJ-Based Music - Reggae, Disco, Hip-Hop, House, Techno, EDM and Beyond

3 Kings of Emo Rap

• Juice WRLD Flew High and Fell Fast

• Lil Peep Couldn't Protect Himself

• XXXTentacion Sowed the Wind and Reaped the Whirlwind

We Dig Hip-Hop Evolution: The Foundation

• Lil Wayne, T.I. and 50 Cent Triumph in the Mix Tape Era

• How The Neptunes, Timbaland & Missy Elliott, J Dilla and Kanye West Became Hip-Hop’s Super-Producers

• Houston's DJ Screw, Memphis' Three 6 Mafia and Atlanta's Lil Jon Innovated New Directions in Hip-Hop

• Bounce, Master P & No Limit and Cash Money's Mannie Fresh & Juvenile Brought New Orleans Hip-Hop to the Fore

• Outkast & Goodie Mob Took the Dirty South National After TLC and Kriss Kross Laid the Foundation in Atlanta

• Eminem, Mos Def & Black Star Emerge from Hip-Hop's Cypher & Battle Rap Cultures

• After The Notorious B.I.G.'s Reign, Puff Daddy, Lil' Kim and Jay-Z Step Up In The ‘Jiggy Era’

• 2Pac & Suge Knight Ignite the West Coast-East Coast Feud Again

• Wu-Tang Clan, Nas and Notorious B.I.G. Brought NYC Back

• Tribe Called Quest & De La Soul Led the Native Tongues

• Too $hort, MC Hammer, E-40, Digital Underground & 2Pac Brought the Bay

• The 2 Live Crew, Geto Boys and UGK Come Out of the South

• Ice-T, Eazy-E And N.W.A. Bring Gangsta Rap To The Masses

• Run-DMC, Def Jam and Public Enemy Herald The Golden Age

• The Sugarhill Gang & Afrika Bambaataa Put Rap On Wax

• Hip-Hop Is Born In The Bronx