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✶✶ The Chicago Hip-Hop Encyclopedia ✶✶

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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 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 digital resources such as timelines, maps, a blog and this digital encyclopedia.

Currently the encyclopedia includes 1215 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.

The Elements

✶ Graffiti Writing

• Graffiti Artists (37 members)

✶ DJing

• Disc Jockeys (DJs) / Turntablists (68 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

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.

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