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

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Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Chicago Hip-Hop History, a wiki designed to provide a comprehensive and organized overview of Chicago hip-hop history. Our pages include concise, factual information designed to be a starting point for research. We aim to offer context and for further exploration into all elements of Chicago hip-hop heritage including Emceeing, DJing, Street Dancing and Graffiti Writing.

Launched in 2024 with support from UIC and in collaboration with the Chicago Hip-Hop Heritage Museum, this project has so far published information on:

• Emcees
• DeeJays
• Street Dancers
• Graffiti Writers
• and 999 additional pages

You can begin by browsing by category using the links below, or searching the encyclopedia for an artist, song, etc. or browse a list of all pages in the encyclopedia.

The Elements

Graffiti

• Graffiti Artists

DJing

• Disc Jockeys (DJs) / Turntablists
• Radio Personalities
• Producers

Street Dancing

• Street Dancers
  • Lockers
  • Poppers
  • Breakers
• Street Dance Groups

Beatboxing

MCing

• EmCees (MCs)
• Hip-Hop Groups

Knowledge

• Philosophies
• Writers

Browse More

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

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 analytical information.

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

• Record Stores
• Blogs