What you see here is an overview of visual material made for the dutch radioshow 'Rappers Delight'. A show about the history of hip hop. The stuff on this page is a selection of things made for the second season in which we continued with our series from 1999 all the way up to 2022.
The previous graphics you can find over here.
Every week we broadoast one hour of nonstop mixed music from a specific year or in a specific theme. These broadcasts are collected on our mixcloud page: www.mixcloud.com/rjmx
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Heeeeeeeere we go..
Episodes 32 - 26 featured the era we called the revival. These are the last years that the East and West Coast dominated Hip Hop. The era starts in 1999 when Jiggy Rap starts to go out of style and ends when the south takes over in 2002.
We also did specials on Grime, the British hip hop-mutant, on producers collective the SoulQuarians and an imaginary block party situated in 1978 in which we combined rap acapella's with the records Dj Kool Herc played when hip hop was born
Below you can see the posters for these episodes. Everything in a vintage style and very much relying on typography.
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Episode 38 - 41 we're on the period 2003 - 2006. The years in which hip hop was, for the first time, the biggest musical genre on the planet.
A period in which hip hop dictated the trends in pop music, southern hiphop began to take over and in (our country) the Netherlands a golden era started.
For the posters I experimented a little with Adobe Dimension. The Timbaland-poster was done with a Photoshop template and the 'Dutch' poster was based on the testscreen of our national television stations in the 70s/80s.
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The period featured in episode 44 - 47 we named the era of excess: the years 2006 - 2010. In this time Hip Hop started to become really bombastic and in some areas a little stuck. It was time for a new generation to shake things up and to take over.
(Of course there was also a lot of really great music made in this years - No hate!)
(Of course there was also a lot of really great music made in this years - No hate!)
We did special epsiodes on R&B and on the Neptunes this time and we had out first anniversary show.
This time I tried a 'glitchy' colourful, videotape effect for the posters. (If you hadn't noticed yet: I like everything to look old and used).
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In the years 2011 - 2014 hip hop changed A LOT. This era is most remembered for the trap sound that really took over but these were also the years of the Odd Future Crew, Asap Rocky, Kendrick Lamar and his black hippies, Danny Brown, Drake etc...
Hip hop was now so big and comprehensive that everything seemd to happen all the time so our formula to sum everything up in 1-hour-episodes was no longer really sufficient.
For the posters I decided to use Scribble drawings (Krassings) I made a few years back.
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Trap, emo and social media... the trap era changed the face of hip hop. So much changed that we decided to brand the following era the reconstruction. 2015 - 2018 were the years when all the innovations of the first years of the decade settled in.
For this posters I also used the Krassing style.
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Special episodes we're done on Emo rap (above on the right) and Latin trap: ai, ai, ai! (below)
The last episodes of our timeline were dedicated to the chaotic times we live in right now.
You could say a lot about the increasing speed of technological developments and the social changes of the past years but we are just a hip hop radioshow trying to keep up with all new music that is released... The hardest time to summarize is the NOW.
During this period we did 3 shows on the R&B of the 2010s, the posters for that mini series were made with Midjourney.
In between the regular episodes we did an increasing amount of special mixes. Just to get all the things we did on the side out to the world.
Below a selection of the artwork for these shows. On our Instagram you can see everything.
During the holiday season we did a mini series on the history of Dutch hip hop 2005 - 2022. The years in which this local genre found it's own voice (2005 - 2008). The years in which it's lost itself in the club (2009 - 2012). Trap years (2012 - 2015) The Mocro Era (2015 - 2018) and all the way up to the blurry post-COVID times we live in now.
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After we finished our timeline we wrapped it up with a big megamix and an update of the infographic that started it all (see here). Next year we will to a show on the hip hop of 2023 but this project has, for now, come to an end.
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Future projects include a timeline of hip hop on the west coast, the 'dirty' south, a UK-saga and a mega-series on hip hop-producers so there will probably be a third post on this subject ;)
