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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 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 as this digital encyclopedia.

Currently the encyclopedia includes 1201 unique pages on emcees, DJs, producers, street dancers, graffiti artists and many others members of the Chicago hip-hop community.

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✶✶ The Elements ✶✶

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✶ Graffiti Writing

• Graffiti Artists (37 members)

✶ DJing

• Disc Jockeys (DJs) / Turntablists (67 members)
• Radio Personalities
• Producers (45 members)

✶ Street Dancing

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

✶ Beatboxing

✶ MCing

• EmCees (MCs) (332 members)
• Hip-Hop Groups (44 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

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.

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.