That same year, the Recording Academy finally included a rap category in the Grammy Awards, and Will Smith, a.k.a.
And then, in September 1996, Tupac Shakur died at 25 in Las Vegas, having been shot four times.
Hill’s was the first hip-hop album to win album of the year (along with four other Grammys).
In 1999, Big L of Harlem (Lamont Coleman) was shot nine times in the face and chest on West 139th Street near his Harlem home.
On Oct. 30, 2002, Run-DMC’s D.J., Jason Mizell, known as Jam Master Jay, was killed in his Queens recording studio at age 37.
Persons:
Will Smith, a.k.a, DJ Jazzy Jeff, “, ”, Tupac Shakur, Roland Bishop, Ernest Dickerson’s, Christopher Wallace, poolside partyer, DJ Quik, Gen, Biggie Smalls, Shakur, Will, Biggie, ’ Raymond Rodgers, Evans’s, Kirk Franklin, Cheryl James, Lauryn Hill ”, Jay, Z’s, Hill’s, Big, Harlem, Lamont Coleman, Jason Mizell, Mizell, Rap
Organizations:
Recording Academy, Billboard, Motown, Queens
Locations:
Florida, Las Vegas, God’s, Harlem