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How 'Yo! MTV Raps' helped mainstream hip-hop
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Date:2025-04-18 15:28:06
The MTV show Yo! MTV Raps helped bring hip-hop into mainstream American culture in the 1980s and was made by a scrappy team in the face of a skeptical corporate network.
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