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✶✶ The Encyclopedia of Chicago Hip-Hop History ✶✶

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This digital encyclopedia is designed to provide a comprehensive and organized overview of Chicago hip-hop history. Our pages present concise, factual information intended to be a starting point for further research.

Launched in 2024 with support from UIC 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 digital resources such as this digital encyclopedia. Currently the encyclopedia includes 992 unique pages with biographical information on over 290 emcees, 52 DJs, 37 producers, 12 street dancers, 20 graffiti writers and many others members of the Chicago hip-hop community in this digital encyclopedia.

You can begin browsing through categories using the links below, searching for any term or browsing a list of all pages.

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✶✶ The Elements ✶✶

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✶ Graffiti Writing

• Graffiti Artists (20 members)

✶ DJing

• Disc Jockeys (DJs) / Turntablists (52 members)
• Radio Personalities
• Producers (37 members)

✶ Street Dancing

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

✶ Beatboxing

✶ MCing

• EmCees (MCs) (290 members)
• Hip-Hop Groups (41 members)

✶ Knowledge

• Philosophies
• Writers

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✶✶ More Elements of Hip-Hop✶✶

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• Entrepreneurs
• Fashion
• Films
• Hip-Hop Spots
• Recording Studios
• Record Labels
• Record Stores
• Blogs
• Photographers

The CHHHP is a Semantic MediaWiki project, which is built on the same platform as Wikipedia but includes semantic extensions that allow properties (variables) to be stored in a database and queried to produce information.

This wiki is administered by the CHHHP team and attempts to adhere to the five pillars of WikiEditing.