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About Rap Current
Hip-hop by the numbers: 7,500 rappers, DJs and crews, 30,000 albums, singles and mixtapes, the labels that put them out and the cities they came from.
Rap Current is a reference to hip-hop built from two open music databases. MusicBrainz supplies releases — albums, EPs, singles, mixtapes and DJ mixes with their release dates — and artist entries; Wikidata adds birthplaces, the cities where crews formed, record labels and subgenres from G-funk to drill.
Artists are split into solo rappers and DJs and into crews, duos and groups. Release dates are the earliest known release. We publish facts only — no lyrics, cover art or reviews.
Data sources
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