April 25, 1955 – On This Date In Hip-Hop, Coke La Rock was born. Coke La Rock would grow up to be credited as the 1st MC in the history of Hip-Hop – rocking the mic as Kool Herc looped break beats. Happy Birthday Coco La Rock!
April 25, 1992 – On This Date In Hip-Hop, Kris Kross’ “Jump” became the #1 song in the country.
April 25, 1999 – On This Date In Hip-Hop, Roger Troutman was killed by his brother Larry outside of his recording studio in #Dayton, Ohio.
April 25, 2000 – On This Date In Hip-Hop, Dr Dre followed in the footsteps of Metallica and sued the file sharing service Napster.
April 25, 2002 – On This Date In Hip-Hop, TLC’s Lisa Left Eye Lopes was killed in a car accident while visiting Honduras.
April 9, 1996 – On This Date In Hip-Hop, Mobb Deep released their 2nd album The Infamous on Loud/RCA.
April 25, 1994 – On This Date In Hip-Hop, Sticky Fingaz shot up the inaugural Source Awards while performing Throw Ya Gunz with ONYX.
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1st Emcee ever! That’s Hip Hop Royalty right there.