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✶✶ The Chicago Hip-Hop Encyclopedia ✶✶

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Project Overview

Launched in 2024 with support from The 2024 UIC Awards for Creative Activity and in collaboration with the Chicago Hip-Hop Heritage Museum, the Chicago Hip-Hop History Project aims to provide context and connections for all elements of Chicago hip-hop history through our digital projects which include:

• timelines of the elements of hip-hop in Chicago
• maps of significant locations
• a blog about our research and events related to Chicago hip-hop
• a digital encyclopedia (this site) designed to provide a comprehensive and organized overview of Chicago hip-hop history.
• a project to update a variety of Wikipedia pages related to Chicago hip-hop

Each page of this site presents concise, factual information on an entity or concept related to Chicago hip-hop history and is intended to be a starting point for further research.

Currently the encyclopedia includes 1218 unique pages on emcees, DJs, producers, street dancers, graffiti artists and many others members of the Chicago hip-hop community. Please see our editors and inclusion criteria pages for more information. You may browse the site using the search tool or the links in the table of contents below:

The Elements

✶ Graffiti Writing

• Graffiti Artists (37 members)

✶ DJing

• Disc Jockeys (DJs) / Turntablists (69 members)
• Radio Personalities
• Producers (45 members)

✶ Street Dancing

• Street Dancers (12 members)
  • Lockers
  • Poppers
  • Breakers
• Street Dance Groups

✶ Beatboxing

✶ MCing

• EmCees (MCs) (335 members)
• Hip-Hop Groups (44 members)

✶ Knowledge

• Philosophies
• Writers

More Elements

• Entrepreneurs (3 members)

• Fashion Designers (1 members)
• Films
• Hip-Hop Spots
• Recording Studios
• Record Labels
• Record Stores
• Blogs
• Photographers

Recently Updated Pages

• JP Chill (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 5 September 2025 20:15:48)
• Double X (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 5 September 2025 18:49:53)
• The Chicago Hip-Hop History Project: Editor training (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 5 September 2025 18:31:53)
• Main Page (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 5 September 2025 18:26:11)
• The Chicago Hip-Hop History Project: Reading List (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 5 September 2025 13:43:45)
• The Chicago Hip-Hop History Project: LibGuides (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 5 September 2025 13:42:09)
• The Chicago Hip-Hop History Project: Hip-Hop Archives (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 4 September 2025 15:11:46)
• The Chicago Hip-Hop History Project: Timeline Editing (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 30 August 2025 22:29:27)
• Adamn Killa (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 27 August 2025 16:58:57)
• The Chicago Hip-Hop History Project: Editors (Modification date"Modification date" is a predefined property that corresponds to the date of the last modification of a subject and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.: 24 August 2025 21:00:43)

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For Researchers

This digital encyclopedia is a Semantic MediaWiki project. Semantic properties are used to add structured, machine-readable data to pages within this project. This allows for enhanced search capabilities, data extraction, and the creation of specialized views based on semantic information.

About Us

This site is administered by the CHHHP team and attempts to adhere to the five pillars of Wiki-editing.