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Ninety percent of the knowledge locked inside "Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists" will cruise past you faster than a moonwalking b-boy. But the guys at ego trip--a smart, acid-tongued rap zine--make sure you have fun gettin' schooled. Try a sample:
1. First hip-hop DJ: Kool Herc
2. Location of Kool Herc's first party: 1520 Sedgewick Avenue, Bronx, N.Y., 1973
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3. First rap artist signed to a major label: Kurtis Blow (Mercury)
4. First rap album on CD: "King of Rock" by Run-D.M.C. (Profile, 1984)
5. First major network news program to document hip-hop: ABC's "20/20," July 1981
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