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✶✶✶✶ The Chicago Hip-Hop Knowledge Base ✶✶✶✶

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Welcome to the Chicago Hip-Hop Knowledge Base (CHHKB), a specialized wiki designed to provide a comprehensive and organized overview of Chicago hip-hop history. Our pages present concise, factual information designed to be a starting point for research. We aim to offer data and information that will provide context and connections for all elements of Chicago hip-hop history.

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 hundreds of emcees, DJs, street dancers, graffiti writers and many others members of the Chicago hip-hop community.

You can begin using the knowledge base by browsing through categories using the links below, by searching for an artist, song, etc. or by browsing a list of all pages.

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✶✶✶✶ The Elements ✶✶✶✶

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✶ Graffiti Writing

• 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

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✶✶✶✶ More Core Elements of the Hip-Hop Community✶✶✶✶

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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.