Artist	Song
Nas	N.Y. State of Mind
from Illmatic (1994)
Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & The Furious Five	The Message (12" Single Version)
from The Best of Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel & The Furious Five (2005)
50 Cent	In da Club
from Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2003)
The Cold Crush Brothers	The Cold Crush Brothers At the Dixie
from Wild Style (Original Soundtrack) (2005)
The Notorious B.I.G.	Big Poppa
from Bad Boy's 10th Anniversary - The Hits (2005)
Jay-Z	Dirt Off Your Shoulder
from The Black Album (2010)
Method Man & Redman	How High
from Def Jam's Greatest Hits (1997)
Afrika Bambaataa	Don't Stop...Planet Rock (Original Vocal Version)
from Don't Stop...Planet Rock - The Remix EP (2005)
Wu-Tang Clan	C.R.E.A.M.
from Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) (1993)
KRS-One	Step Into a World (Rapture's Delight)
from A Restrospective (2000)

Comment:

In the late ’70s, the boogie-down Bronx was the birthplace of hip-hop, as turntable technicians like Kool Herc, Lovebug Starski, and Grandmasters Flash and Caz jacked electricity from housing project power lines and rocked the first breakbeats from old-school funk records. Once pioneering MCs, like Cold Crush Brothers, started flowing over those [i]backbreaking[/i] beats, a neighborhood jam was about to become a worldwide wonder.

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