The record shop that helped launch Snoop Dogg's career is taking strides to become a West Coast hip-hop museum. VIP Records, the Long Beach, California, record shop that played a pivotal role in ...

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Having a diamond-certified record for selling at least 10 million units is one of the highest accomplishments in the music industry and is a true indicator of being a superstar. In hip-hop ...

Sugar Hill Records, did not submit the song for auditing by the Recording Industry Association of America.) “Moore was a key figure in the early commercialization of Hip Hop,” Mr. Blow wrote ...