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Originally Posted by
coolout
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Most young cats don't understand that until the chronic and the first biggie record you really didn't hear hiphop during daytime radio nationwide. Once that happened the target demographic started to shift toward women. More singers started showing up on the hooks of rap songs and R&B drums started to hit harder to point we're at now where there's little difference in the average hiphop track and the average R&B track.
Off the top of my head....MC Hammer, Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock, Salt n Pepa, Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, Kid n Play, Biz Markie, MC Lyte, Run DMC, Fat Boys, LL Cool J, Beastie Boys, and so many others were tearing up the radio at least 5 years before the Chronic. You couldn't go 5 minutes without hearing a song from one of the above in the late 80's where I'm from.. granted this wasn't the Hip Hop radio station era of the late 90's... you could still hear Stevie B, and the freestyle/dance stuff on these same stations, along with R&B, etc. But, hip hop was in regular rotation.