Golden Age Hip Hop - Notable Artists

Notable Artists

According to a number of sources, such as; Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Allmusic, The Age, MSNBC, and author William Jelani Cobb, the following were key artists in the golden Age of Hip-hop

  • 2 Live Crew
  • Tha Alkaholiks
  • A Tribe Called Quest
  • Audio Two
  • AZ
  • Beastie Boys
  • Big L
  • Big Daddy Kane
  • Biz Markie
  • Biggie Smalls
  • Black Sheep
  • Black Moon
  • Boogie Down Productions
  • Bone Thugs N Harmony
  • Brand Nubian
  • Chubb Rock
  • Common
  • Compton's Most Wanted
  • Cypress Hill
  • Das EFX
  • De La Soul
  • Del the Funkee Homosapien
  • Digable Planets
  • Digital Underground
  • DJ Cash Money & Marvelous
  • The D.O.C.
  • Doug E. Fresh
  • Dr. Dre
  • DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
  • DJ Quik
  • Eazy-E
  • EPMD
  • Eric B. & Rakim
  • Fu-Schnickens
  • Gang Starr
  • Geto Boys
  • Ghostface Killah
  • Grandmaster Caz
  • Group Home
  • GZA
  • Heavy D & The Boyz
  • House of Pain
  • Ice Cube
  • Ice-T
  • Inspectah Deck
  • Jeru the Damaja
  • Junior M.A.F.I.A.
  • Jungle Brothers
  • Kid 'n Play
  • Kool G Rap & DJ Polo
  • Kool Moe Dee
  • KRS-One
  • Leaders of the New School
  • Lil' Kim
  • LL Cool J
  • Lord Finesse
  • Lords of the Underground
  • Main Source
  • Marley Marl
  • Masta Ace
  • Masta Killa
  • MC Eiht
  • MC Hammer
  • MC Lyte
  • MC Ren
  • MC Shan
  • Missy Elliott
  • Method Man
  • Melle Mel
  • Mobb Deep
  • Nasty Nas
  • Naughty by Nature
  • Nice & Smooth
  • N.W.A.
  • Ol' Dirty Bastard
  • Organized Konfusion
  • Outkast
  • Pete Rock & CL Smooth
  • The Pharcyde
  • Poor Righteous Teachers
  • Public Enemy
  • Queen Latifah
  • Raekwon
  • Redhead Kingpin and the F.B.I.
  • Redman
  • The Roots
  • Roxanne Shante
  • Run–D.M.C.
  • RZA
  • Salt-N-Pepa
  • Schoolly D
  • Showbiz & A.G.
  • Slick Rick
  • Snoop Dogg
  • Souls of Mischief
  • Special Ed
  • Stetsasonic
  • Three Times Dope
  • Tone Lōc
  • Too $hort
  • Tupac Shakur
  • UGK
  • U-God
  • Ultramagnetic MCs
  • Wu-tang Clan
  • X Clan
  • Young MC

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