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TIL about Sylvia Robinson who is often credited as starting Hip-Hop..Robinson is credited as the driving force behind two landmark singles in the hip hop genre; "Rapper's Delight" (1979) and "The Message l"(1982) by Grandmaster Flash which caused her to be dubbed "The Mother of Hip- Hop"

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