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The MTV Video Music Award for Best Hip Hop was first given out at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards.The award, according to MTV, was originally intended for hip hop-inspired songs, not necessarily actual hip hop music videos (which were instead honored by Best Rap Video).
In addition, its music video, directed by Hype Williams, received a nomination for Breakthrough Video at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards. Viewed as a classic, it has since become one of Rhymes' most famous and beloved songs. In 2008, it was ranked number 56 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop". [1]
As hip-hop celebrates its 50th anniversary on Aug. 11, The Times looks back at the artists, songs and innovations that changed the course of popular culture.
The Sugar Hill Gang appeared on the syndicated Soap Factory Disco Show in late 1979, and their performance later became the song's official music video. [19] The group's performance on the Palisades Park-based program demonstrates the significant overlap between early hip-hop and disco of the late 1970s. Alternate music videos exist as well.
The West Coast hip-hop lifestyle of the ‘90s will live on forever in this—one of the most iconic songs and music videos of the genre, courtesy of the dream team that was Tupac and Dre. Listen ...
on YouTube "Jump Around ... Its music video was filmed in New York City, ... number 66 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop", ...
In 1994, MTV placed the song's music video in their list MTV Top 100 Videos of 1993. [42] In 1994, Spin placed the song in their list Top 5 Hip-Hop Chants Of '93. [43] In 1999, Ego Trip's editors ranked the song in their list Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1993 in Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists. [44]
Drake also dropped a music video alongside the song, which shows a red minivan, similar to that on the cover of Lamar's "good kid, m.A.A.d city" being driven across the border to Canada and destroyed.