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N.W.A (an abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes, [5] [6] eye dialect for Niggas With Attitudes) was an American hip hop group formed in Compton, California.Among the earliest and most significant figures of the gangsta rap subgenre, the group is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential acts in hip hop music.
This version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship was created in 1953 when Verne Gagne was awarded the championship in the Chicago-based Fred Kohler Enterprises. In 1959, the championship was moved to Detroit. The championship was abandoned in 1980 when the promotion closed. [14] NWA World Tag Team Championship (Detroit version ...
The NWA Detroit United States Heavyweight Championship was a version of the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship contested in Big Time Wrestling from 1959 until 1980. . It was first introduced as the Chicago version of the championship and contested on shows produced by Fred Kohler Enterprises before moving to Big Time Wrestling in Detroit six years later.
The Detroit version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship was the top ranked professional wrestling championship for tag teams in the Detroit, Michigan-based promotion Big Time Wrestling, sometimes referred to as NWA Detroit, between 1965 and 1980.
On December 25, 1971, Georgia Championship Wrestling made its television debut with a special Christmas program. Beginning in late January 1972 the promotion's regular series, Big Time Wrestling, began airing on Saturday afternoons on WQXI-TV in Atlanta; the show was recorded for later broadcast over WJBF in Augusta and WTOC-TV in Savannah, stations located in two of GCW's major cities.
July 11, 1989: After a funeral, Workman is buried in Dogwood Cemetery. The Workman family began offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or ...
For most of the 1980s, New York City, the birthplace of hip-hop, [18] remained the rap genre's dominant scene. [19] Los Angeles County was secondary. [20] Until 1988, the Los Angeles hip-hop scene, retaining more of hip-hop's dance and party origin, prioritized DJs and DJ crews as the central players in hip-hop; [21] the prevailing style at the time was electro rap and "funk hop", [22] similar ...
One of Detroit’s most notorious graffiti artists has been arrested. Hazel Park resident Bryan Herrin, who goes by the moniker BVIS, has spent the last few years obsessively drawing the face of ...