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- Disco Bee (Early Hip Hop Performer)[remove]19
- E-Z Mike (Hip Hop Performer)14
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five was an influential American hip hop group formed in the South Bronx of New York City in 1978.)12
- Melle Mel (Born Melvin Glover, May 15, 1961, also known as Grandmaster Melle Mel, is an American hip-hop musician — one of the pioneers of old school hip hop as lead rapper and main songwriter for Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)11
- Kidd Creole (Nathaniel Glover Jr., (born February 19, 1960), is an American Emcee first known as Danny Dan and after 1975 as the better-known stage name The Kidd Creole; most famous for his work as a founding member of the group Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Fi)10
- Mr. Ness (Scorpio) (Hip Hop performer, member of Furious Five)10
- Rahiem (Early Hip Hop performer. Member of Funky Four and Furious Five)9
- Grandmaster Flash (Joseph Saddler (born in Bridgetown, Barbados), is an American hip hop musician and DJ—one of the pioneers of hip-hop DJing, cutting, and mixing. Member of Furious Five. Inducted to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame)8
- Keith Cowboy (Keith "Cowboy" Wiggins, a member of Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five)8
- Buddy Esquire ("The Flyer King") (Hip Hop Flyer Designer, active in the 1970s and 1980s)5
- Busy Bee Starski (Early Hip Hop emcee (aka Chiefrocker Starski), b. David Parker in South Bronx, NYC.)4
- Kool Kyle (Early hip hop performer)4
- Lovebug Starski (Pioneering Hip Hop MC, Bronx, NY.)4
- Black Door Productions3
- DJ Sinbad (Early hip hop DJ, b. Darren Brockett, scratched for Kool Kyle, frequent performer at T-Connection '77-81)3
- Jimmy D3
- Kool DJ AJ (Hip Hop DJ. Played with Busy Bee, Kurtis Blow et al.)3
- Blow, Kurtis (Early DJ/b-boy, rapper, b. Kurt Walker, first rapper to sign onto major lablel, Mercury in 1980 with hit Christmas Rapping)2
- Charlie Choo2
- DJ Ice (Early Hip hop emcee active in Harlem/Bronx area)2