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Rap (Music).

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

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
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Alonzo Williams Hip Hop Collection

Andre Manuel Def Row Hip Hop documents

 Collection — Manuscript box 89 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113959914]
Identifier: 8131
Dates: 1991-1992.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Andre Manuel Def Row Hip Hop documents

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
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / David Scheinbaum hip hop photographs

DJ Kool Herc photographs and flyers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924113879948]
Identifier: 8143
Dates: 1975 - 1985
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / DJ Kool Herc photographs and flyers

E.J. Recordings and Austin Hip Hop Collection

 Collection — Mapcase folder 1: [Barcode: 31924113567931]
Identifier: 8116
Dates: circa 1988-1993.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / E.J. Recordings and Austin Hip Hop Collection

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Grandmaster Caz archive

Jeremy Braddock music and culture zine collection

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924070572700]
Identifier: 8732
Abstract

Approximately 33 music, art, and culture zines, along with 3 generations of IPods from the collection of Jeremy Braddock. Titles include 18 issues of Roctober along with scattered holdings of other zines such as Verbivore, Plotz, and the Duplex Planet.

Dates: 1987 - 2008
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Jeremy Braddock music and culture zine collection

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Phyllis Pollack papers

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
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Troy L. Smith Collection of Hip Hop Party and Show Tapes

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.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Tupac Shakur and Digital Underground fan mail

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