January 03: The Arsenio Hall Show Debuts. (1989)

On This Date In Hip-Hop, Jay-Z took over as President and CEO of Def Jam… This move would help him inherit Rocafella back after the split with Dame Dash.

On This Date In Hip-Hop, the soundtrack to the film Higher Learning was released on Epic Soundtrax.

On This Date In Hip-Hop, my play-wife Angela Yee was born in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.

On This Date In Hip-Hop G-Unit rapper Jamal Mazaradi Fox Green was gunned down while seated in a vehicle in Queens.

On This Date In Hip-Hop, they said soulja boy aint from the hood.t

On This Date In Hip-Hop, they said soulja boy aint from the hood.t

On This Date In Hip-Hop, Timothy “Tim Dog” Blair was born in The Bronx, New York. Tim Dog would grow up to diss the whole West Coast when the region was becoming a prominent force on the Hip-Hop scene.