Rapper's Delight was released in 1979 by the Sugarhill Gang and is considered to be the first hip hop song.

Kool Herc is considered to be the father of hip hop because he was one of the first DJs to play breakbeats, which is a technique that is essential to hip hop music.

Fresh was released in 1982 by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and is considered to be the first hip hop album.

Run-D.M.C. won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance in 1988 for their song "Walk This Way".

LL Cool J sold over 10 million albums with his 1987 album "Bigger and Deffer".

Run-D.M.C. had a number one single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1986 with their song "Walk This Way".

Common won an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2015 for his song "Glory" from the film "Selma".

Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2007.

Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2018 for his album "DAMN".

Jay-Z was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2017 by President Barack Obama.

Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016 for his "new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition".

Outkast won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2004 for their album "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below".

Lauryn Hill won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year in 1999 for her song "Doo Wop (That Thing)".

Kanye West won the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 2011 for his song "All of the Lights".

Lauryn Hill won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1999.