1. LO: Students can describe the
significant eras and rappers in
rap history.

3. Focus on party songs

4.  First recorded
rap song
 Never got
popular
https://www.you
tube.com/watch
?v=Mco_r8lkmh
8

5.  First popular rap song
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9
306jTZuU5k

6.  One of the first people to mix, cut, and scratch music records
 The Message: one of the first raps about life in the hood
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYMkEMCHtJ4

7. Lots of different styles

8.  Run DMC known for changing their style
 Changed things by adding heavy guitar to rap
https://w
ww.youtu
be.com/w
atch?v=rX
VFNs0piP
8

9.  1986 album
License to
Ill is
bestselling
rap album
of all time
when it
comes out
 https://ww
w.youtube.
com/watch
?v=ifTcTuh
5X3E

10.  Raps about
social issues
and life in the
hood
 https://www.
youtube.com/
watch?v=Cvy7
MWjfVPE

11. Focus on gang life

12.  Rap started getting more violent and more about
gang life
https://
www.yo
utube.co
m/watc
h?v=930
6jTZuU
5k

13.  Notorious
B.I.G. (New
York) vs
2pac
Shakkur
(California)
 The rivalry
caught
people’s
attention
and got rap
more
followers
https://www.y
outube.com/wa
tch?v=hUB86w
Hz658

14. Mix of party songs and
social issues
Rap is now one of the most
popular types of music

15.  Trained by Dr. Dre
 The first white rapper with street cred
https://www.you
tube.com/watch?
v=43ZwQ5a-vA4

16.  Jay-Z packs in
crowds of all races
and all ages
 https://www.youtub
e.com/watch?v=h9p
Y3XHSa10

17.  First popular rap song
about religion
 Another rapper popular
of all ages and races
 https://www.youtube.c
om/watch?v=-
VaRVSxaOh0