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Ice Cube
Ice Cube
American rapper and actor
Tupac Shakur
Tupac Shakur
American rapper and actor
Dr. Dre
American rapper, hip-hop producer, and entrepreneur
Snoop Dogg, 2008
Snoop Dogg
American rapper and actor
The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.
American rapper
Eazy-E
American musician
André Lauren Benjamin
American rapper
Antwan André Patton
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April 11, 2019 - Minneapolis, MN: Female Caucasian hand holds up a Dr. Dre The Chronic vinyl record album while shopping in a retail store, a classic retro 90s gangster rap album
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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz
American quartet Boyz II Men (left to right) Shawn Stockman, Wanya Morris, Nathan Morris and Michael McClary, 1992. (music, rhythm-and-blues). Photographed at the American Music Awards where they won Favorite Soul/R&B New Artist, Los Angeles, California, January 27, 1992.
90s Music Quiz