A hip hop chronology · 1520 Sedgwick Ave → everywhere
From a Bronx rec room in 1973 to Olympic breaking in Paris. Artists, crews, DJs, labels, b-boys and b-girls, graffiti writers and the chart records that changed the business.
Early hip hop history lives largely in oral accounts, flyers and cassette tapes, so some dates, especially before 1979, are approximate or disputed. Dates here follow the most commonly cited sources. Chart positions refer to Billboard (US) unless noted.