Underground hip-hop wave
1996–2001 · Event
Rawkus, open mics and battle circuits nurture lyric-first rappers outside the major-label mainstream.
On these timelines: History of Hip-Hop, Master
More from History of Hip-Hop
- Birth of hip-hop (1973)
- Golden age of hip-hop (1986)
- Bronx block-party era (1973)
- Tupac Shakur is shot in Las Vegas (1996)
- Murder of the Notorious B.I.G. (1997)
- Rapper's Delight (The Sugarhill Gang) (1979)
- The Message (Grandmaster Flash) (1982)
- Illmatic (Nas album) (1994)
Around 1996
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- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)