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How Deep Does Your 90s Hip-Hop Knowledge Actually Go?

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How Deep Does Your 90s Hip-Hop Knowledge Actually Go?

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DJ Premier and Pete Rock both produced for Nas's Illmatic. But "It Ain't Hard to Tell" came from a third producer entirely. Who?

DJ Premier

Pete Rock

Q-Tip

Large Professor

Eazy-E's signature LA Kings hat wasn't about hockey. The whole point was the colorway. What two colors made it iconic?

Purple and gold

Black and silver

Red and white

Blue and white

Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) opens with a school-roll-call skit. Before going solo, she was a member of which group?

Brand Nubian

The Fugees

De La Soul

Digable Planets

Bad Boy Records' first hit single did not come from Biggie. It came from another Bad Boy signee whose "Flava in Ya Ear" charted weeks before Ready to Die dropped in 1994. Who?

Craig Mack

Mase

Black Rob

Total

Tupac's posthumous album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996) was released under which alter ego?

Don Killuminati

Outlawz

Makaveli

2Pacalypse

DJ Screw pioneered the "chopped and screwed" technique that became the signature sound of which city's underground tape scene?

Memphis

New Orleans

Houston

Atlanta

At the 1995 Source Awards, this rapper famously declared "The South got something to say" after his group won Best New Rap Group. Who?

Big Boi

André 3000

Cee-Lo

Khujo

Mobb Deep's "Shook Ones Pt. II" (1995) was produced by which member of the group?

Prodigy

Havoc

Pete Rock

DJ Premier

Master P's distribution deal with Priority Records became legendary for the percentage of his profits he kept. What was that number?

50%

75%

80%

85%

Before joining Death Row, Dr. Dre was contractually signed to which label — co-founded by his former NWA collaborator Eazy-E?

Tommy Boy

Cold Chillin'

Ruthless Records

Profile

Wu-Tang Clan's 1993 debut Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) features nine MCs. Which Wu-Tang member does NOT appear on that album?

Inspectah Deck

Masta Killa

Cappadonna

U-God

Roc-A-Fella Records was co-founded by Jay-Z, Damon Dash, and a third partner. Who?

Kareem "Biggs" Burke

Lyor Cohen

Russell Simmons

Irv Gotti

Big L was murdered in Harlem in February 1999. He was a founding member of the Harlem crew that also launched Cam'ron and Mase's careers. What was the crew's name?

D.I.T.C.

Children of the Corn

The Diplomats

Boot Camp Clik

Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Garcia's legendary 1990s rap radio show — where Nas, Biggie, Big L, Big Pun, and Jay-Z did some of their most-quoted freestyles — originated on which New York college station?

Hot 97

WBLS

WKCR

Power 105

Released in 1998 on Loud Records, this debut album was the first solo album by a Latino rap artist to be certified platinum by the RIAA. What was it?

Capital Punishment

Yeeeah Baby

Hispanic Causing Panic

Escape from Havana

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May 29, 2026

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