Jay-Z

Jay-Z In 2019 became hip hops first billionaire.

Dee Barnes

Dee Barnes is the first woman hip-hop journalist with a television series, Pump It Up! in 1989.

Missy Elliot

Missy Elliot will become the first female hip-hop artist to receive an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music in May 2019.

Simone Eccleston

Simone Eccleston was named the Kennedy Center’s first director of hip-hop culture in 2017.