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Rapper Kendrick Lamar at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in California. AFP

The Sugarhill Gang, from left, Wonder Mike, Master Gee and Big Bank on stage in the late 1970s in New York. Getty Images

Grandmaster Flash circa 1980. Getty Images

NWA's Dr Dre, Laylaw from Above The Law, The DOC, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella during their Straight Outta Compton tour in 1989. Getty Images

Flavor Flav, with rapper Tupac Shakur, at the 1989 American Music Awards. Getty Images

Jarobi, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Phife Dawg and Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest in New York, 1990. Getty Images

Lauryn Hill, circa 1990. Getty Images

Nas at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, California, 1996. Getty Images

Missy Elliott is one of hip-hop's most innovative artists. Getty Images

Eminem brought a literal quality to hip-hop with his 2000 hit 'Stan'. Redferns

Kanye West at the 2003 Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Conference Award ceremony in Florida. AFP

Kid Cudi at the Highline Ballroom in New York City in 2008. Getty Images

Rapper Kendrick Lamar at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in California. AFP

The Sugarhill Gang, from left, Wonder Mike, Master Gee and Big Bank on stage in the late 1970s in New York. Getty Images

Grandmaster Flash circa 1980. Getty Images

NWA's Dr Dre, Laylaw from Above The Law, The DOC, Ice Cube, Eazy-E, MC Ren and DJ Yella during their Straight Outta Compton tour in 1989. Getty Images

Flavor Flav, with rapper Tupac Shakur, at the 1989 American Music Awards. Getty Images

Jarobi, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Phife Dawg and Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest in New York, 1990. Getty Images

Lauryn Hill, circa 1990. Getty Images

Nas at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, California, 1996. Getty Images

Missy Elliott is one of hip-hop's most innovative artists. Getty Images

Eminem brought a literal quality to hip-hop with his 2000 hit 'Stan'. Redferns

Kanye West at the 2003 Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Conference Award ceremony in Florida. AFP

Kid Cudi at the Highline Ballroom in New York City in 2008. Getty Images

Rapper Kendrick Lamar at the 2012 Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in California. AFP

50 Years of hip-hop - in pictures

A man walks amid destruction in Beirut’s southern Haret Hreik neighbourhood a day after an Israeli air strike. AFP

Best photos of November 19: Air strike in Beirut to a farmer's protest in London

Pro-Palestinian protesters display a banner while demonstrating outside the High Court in London. EPA

Protest against British government's arms exports to Israel - in pictures