Hip-Hop Evolution

  • Premiered: Sep 2016
  • Episodes: 16
  • Followers: 46
  • Ended
  • HBO Canada
  • Friday at 3
  • Documentary Mini-series

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Season 1
1x1
The Foundation
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 04, 2016
Bronx-based DJs set Hip-Hop's sonic foundations. MCs, inspired by African American oral traditions, create the modern template for rap music, culminating with the emergence of Hip-Hop's first crew, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
1x2
From The Underground to The Mainstream
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 11, 2016
Hip-Hop crews in the Bronx and Harlem begin to form around the DJs, but these pioneering groups never record any music. It would take R&B veterans to see the genre’s commercial potential and create Hip-Hop's first hit, "Rapper's Delight."
1x3
The New Guard
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 18, 2016
Run-DMC ushers in a new era of Hip-Hop. Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin build Hip-Hop's first empire, Def Jam. An unknown producer finds a new way to make beats and launches Hip-Hop's Golden Age, culminating in the epic fury of Public Enemy.
1x4 Season finale
The Birth of Gangsta Rap
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 25, 2016
Ice-T uses Hip-Hop to reflect the violence of Los Angeles and inspires a new form of Hip-Hop: Gangsta Rap. N.W.A’s first album, Straight Outta Compton, shocks America. After the LA .. show full overview

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