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Hip-hop collectives

  • Native TonguesThe Native Tongues took their name from a line in the song African Cry by Motown-offshoot funk group New Birth. That lyric reads took away our native tongues…
  • Wu-Tang ClanIn the late 1980s, cousins Robert Diggs, Gary Grice, and Russell Jones formed a group named Force of the Imperial Master in Staten Island.
  • Boogie Down ProductionsThe year 1986 marked the birth of Boogie Down Productions in the South Bronx. KRS-One and DJ Scott La Rock formed the core of this new hip-hop group.