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1996 Tupac Shakur, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet), killed in drive by at 25

1992 Rap singer raps 597 syllables in under 60 seconds

1991 8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, New York City

1990 Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records

1990 Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Florida for obscenity

1987 "Ronnies Rap" by Ron and DC Crew peaks at #93

1986 RUN-DMC is 1st rap group to hit top 10 (Raisin' Hell)

1971 Snoop Doggy Dogg, rap singer

1971 Tupac Shakur, born in Brooklyn, New York, rap star/actor, Juice, Bullet, killed in 1996

1971 Marky Mark Wahlberg, born in Massachusetts, rap singer, New Kids, actor

1970 Queen Latifah, rap singer and actress, Khadijah James-Living Single

1969 Ice Cube, rap singer and actor, Boyz in the Hood, Anaconda

1967 Vanilla Ice, rap singer, Ice Ice Baby, actor, Cool as Ice

1967 H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student

1965 Mike Diamond, born in New York City, New York, rap vocalist, Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight

1965 Dr. Dre, rap singer

1960 Chuck D, born in Roosevelt, New York, rapper, author, leader, Public Enemy, created politically, socially conscious rap music, focused on hip hop genre, albums include, 'Yo! Bum Rush the Show', 'Fear of a Black Planet'

1958 Ice-T, born in Newark, New Jersey, Tracy Marrow, musician, pioneer of gangsta rap, songwriter, actor, Grammy Award winner, author

1943 H. Rap Brown, American Activist

1931 Yvonne Keuls, Bamberg, Dutch writer, Jan Rap and Co

1930 Gary Snyder, Japhy Ryder, beat poet, Rip Rap and Cold Mountain Poems


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