Another Hip-Hop Quiz

Question: The careers of Ludacris, OutKast, and T.I. originated in which American city?

Answer: In 2009 the New York Times called Atlanta "hip-hop’s center of gravity."

Question: Who performed the early rap hit "Rapper’s Delight"?

Answer: "Rapper’s Delight” (1979) was the first rap song to crack the top 40 of Billboard magazine’s singles chart.

Question: Which two rappers teamed up for the 2011 album Watch the Throne?

Answer: Before pursuing his own rap career, West produced songs for Jay-Z and others. West’s 2007 track "Big Brother" is a tribute to the older performer.

Question: Snoop Dogg’s debut single "Who Am I (What’s My Name)?" samples "Atomic Dog" by which iconic funk performer?

Answer: The Snoop Dogg track is an example of G-funk, a style of hip-hop that originated on the West Coast in the early 1990s.

Question: The artists Calle 13, Daddy Yankee, and Wisin y Yandel are most closely associated with which musical genre, which mixes hip-hop with Latin American and Caribbean sounds?

Answer: Reggaeton, which became globally popular in the early 21st century, is typically performed in Spanish.

Question: What was the first rap song to win an Academy Award for best original song?

Answer: The song featured in the movie 8 Mile (2002), which starred Eminem in a semiautobiographical role.

Question: Which hip-hop group was the house band for the TV talk show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (2009-14) and followed Fallon to The Tonight Show in 2014?

Answer: The Roots were formed in Philadelphia in 1987 by rapper Tariq Trotter (Black Thought) and drummer Ahmir Thompson (Questlove).

Question: Which musical legend did Chuck D of Public Enemy controversially dismiss, in song, as "a hero to most" but not to him?

Answer: The line can be found in Public Enemy’s "Fight the Power," which opens Spike Lee’s acclaimed film Do the Right Thing (1989).

Question: Name the title character of a popular rap-themed video game that was originally released on the Sony PlayStation in 1996.

Answer: Besides the microphone-wielding dog PaRappa, the rapping cartoon characters in PaRappa the Rapper include Chop Chop Master Onion and Cheap Cheap the Cooking Chicken.

Question: Who was not a member of the Beastie Boys?

Answer: The Beastie Boys were Adam ("MCA") Yauch, Michael ("Mike D") Diamond, and Adam ("Ad-Rock") Horovitz.