2608475, RE: today in hip hop history Posted by True, Thu Sep-29-11 10:43 AM
http://rapstation.com/td/oEHqvk6i Sept.29th – Kurtis Blow releases his Self-Entitled debut album on Mercury Records , on this day in 1980.
The album contained one of hip-hop’s 1st smash its “The Breaks” which has been sampled by dozens of rap artists over the years.
When Blow was signed to Mercury Records the year before , he became the 1st hip-hop artist to be signed to a major label.
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