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Hip-Hop & Rap Trivia

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This board helps players review Hip-Hop & Rap Trivia through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Origins & Early Years, Albums & Classics, Rap Nicknames, Groups & Crews, Awards & Records. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.

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  • Origins & Early Years

    This Bronx party organizer is widely credited as one of hip-hop's founding DJs.

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    DJ Kool Herc

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  • Albums & Classics

    This 1994 debut album introduced Nas with tracks like 'N.Y. State of Mind'.

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    Illmatic

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  • Rap Nicknames

    This rapper is often called 'Hov'.

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    Jay-Z

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  • Groups & Crews

    This Staten Island collective released 'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)'.

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    Wu-Tang Clan

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  • Awards & Records

    This rapper won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for the album 'DAMN.'.

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    Kendrick Lamar

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Origins & Early Years

$100 — This Bronx party organizer is widely credited as one of hip-hop's founding DJs.
DJ Kool Herc
$200 — This 1979 single by the Sugarhill Gang helped bring rap to mainstream radio.
Rapper's Delight
$300 — This DJ technique involves manually moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable.
Scratching
$400 — This early hip-hop crew released the socially conscious track 'The Message' in 1982.
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
$500 — This Bronx DJ is credited with developing the 'quick mix theory' by extending breakbeats with two copies of a record.
Grandmaster Flash

Albums & Classics

$100 — This 1994 debut album introduced Nas with tracks like 'N.Y. State of Mind'.
Illmatic
$200 — This 1988 Public Enemy album includes 'Bring the Noise' and 'Don't Believe the Hype'.
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
$300 — This 2003 Outkast double album includes 'Hey Ya!' and 'The Way You Move'.
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
$400 — This 1995 Raekwon album is often associated with cinematic crime-rap storytelling and heavy Ghostface Killah features.
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
$500 — This 1996 Jay-Z debut album was released through Roc-A-Fella Records before the label's major distribution rise.
Reasonable Doubt

Rap Nicknames

$100 — This rapper is often called 'Hov'.
Jay-Z
$200 — This Wu-Tang member is known as 'The Chef'.
Raekwon
$300 — This rapper's alter ego 'Slim Shady' became central to his early mainstream image.
Eminem
$400 — This producer and rapper is famously called 'The RZArector' within Wu-Tang lore.
RZA
$500 — This Queensbridge rapper is known by the nickname 'Nasty Nas'.
Nas

Groups & Crews

$100 — This Staten Island collective released 'Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)'.
Wu-Tang Clan
$200 — This Atlanta duo featured André 3000 and Big Boi.
Outkast
$300 — This Queens group released 'The Low End Theory' and 'Midnight Marauders'.
A Tribe Called Quest
$400 — This Los Angeles group released 'Straight Outta Compton' in 1988.
N.W.A.
$500 — This Houston group featuring Scarface released 'Mind Playing Tricks on Me'.
Geto Boys

Awards & Records

$100 — This rapper won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for the album 'DAMN.'.
Kendrick Lamar
$200 — This 1999 Lauryn Hill album won Album of the Year at the Grammys.
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
$300 — This Canadian rapper broke through with 'So Far Gone' before becoming a chart-dominant artist.
Drake
$400 — This 1997 song made Sean Combs and Faith Evans Grammy winners after sampling The Police.
I'll Be Missing You
$500 — This duo became the first hip-hop act to win the Grammy for Album of the Year.
Outkast

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