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for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Background

During most of the 1980s, New York City--the birthplace of hip-hop--remained the genre's primary creative and commercial center, while Los Angeles County played a secondary role. Up until 1988, the Los Angeles hip-hop scene largely reflected hip-hop's dance-oriented and party-based origins, emphasizing DJs and DJ crews as

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