Q 01/05

Which DJ turned the Black Spades street gang into the Universal Zulu Nation?

A) Afrika Bambaataa

B) Jam Master Jay

C) Grandmaster Flash

D) Afrika Islam

Answer · why

A) Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa had risen to a commanding rank in the Black Spades; he named his new organisation after the 1964 film Zulu and renamed himself after ...

Q 02/05

Which Run-D.M.C. album contains 'Walk This Way' and 'It's Tricky'?

A) King of Rock

B) Tougher Than Leather

C) Down with the King

D) Raising Hell

Answer · why

D) Raising Hell

Raising Hell's remake of 'Walk This Way' revived Aerosmith too: the rock band's own comeback album had underperformed a year earlier, and the duet put...

Q 03/05

Keith Cowboy of the Furious Five is credited with coining 'hip hop' while teasing a friend who had just joined what?

A) The Army

B) The Navy

C) The police

D) A marching band

Answer · why

A) The Army

The Army's marching cadence is what Cowboy was mimicking when he scatted 'hip, hop, hip, hop' at his friend; he then worked the chant into his stage r...

Q 04/05

Trap music takes its name from Southern slang for what kind of place?

A) A drug house

B) A recording studio

C) A strip club

D) A jail cell

Answer · why

A) A drug house

A drug house is the 'trap' of Southern slang; the name is said to cast the drug trade as a trap that is hard to get out of.

Q 05/05

Besides DJing, MCing, breakdancing and graffiti, what is sometimes named as hip hop culture's 'fifth element'?

A) Knowledge

B) Sampling

C) Producing

D) Freestyling

Answer · why

A) Knowledge

Knowledge of self is sometimes added to the four as a fifth element, particularly by socially conscious artists and scholars who see hip hop as a way ...