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The First Hip-Hop RIAA-certified Gold Record - Kurtis Blow - The Breaks

A collection of 41 digital renderings of the original RIAA-certified Gold Record plaque for The Breaks, Blow's landmark 1980 song that defined the Hip Hop genre, signifying one of rap's greatest and most enduring moments.

Always on the cutting edge of artistic innovation, Kurtis Blow laid the groundwork for Hip-Hop to dominate pop culture; he was the first rapper signed to a major label, he filmed the first Hip-Hop commercial (with Sprite), and was the first artist to bring Rap to Europe (on tour with The Clash). The pioneer has now added blockchain-based art to his vast career that includes multiple top-10 hits on Billboard's R&B chart, and close collaborations with Whitney Houston, Run DMC, Bob Dylan, and Russell Simmons. The party hit was instrumental in breaking rap into mainstream conversation; now that influential moment in music history will be forever preserved on the blockchain, a budding entertainment and business space itself.

Items
41
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Created
Jun 2021
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Creator earnings
10%
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Chain
Ethereum
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