Music · Hip-Hop
Hip-Hop Trivia Quiz
Mic Drop Rappers, albums, beefs and records: fifty years of hip-hop, from Bronx block parties to the Super Bowl stage.
123 questions · 2 to 12 players, or solo · Typed answers, close enough counts
About this quiz
This Hip-Hop Trivia Quiz has 123 questions: 44 easy, 49 medium and 30 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.
Sample questions
20 of the 123 Hip-Hop questions in this pack. Think of your answer, then open it.
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Which rapper, famous for his baggy trousers, made the first hip-hop album to be certified diamond, 10 million US copies?
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MC Hammer
Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em was the best-selling album of 1990 in the US.
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Which rapper behind Work It and Lose Control became the first female rapper in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, in 2023?
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Missy Elliott
She got in during her first year of eligibility, the first woman in hip-hop even to be nominated.
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Run-DMC's 1986 song about their sneakers led to the first big shoe deal for anyone outside sport. Which brand?
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Adidas
At Madison Square Garden fans held their shoes up on cue, and a watching company boss signed them up.
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Dr. Dre's all-star 2022 halftime show in Los Angeles became the first halftime show ever to win which TV award?
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Emmy
It won Outstanding Variety Special (Live), beating an Adele concert special among others.
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Run-DMC's 1986 remake of Walk This Way, the first rap single in the US top five, revived which Boston band's career?
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Aerosmith
In the video the two bands play in side-by-side studios until their singer smashes through the wall.
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In 2025, A$AP Rocky became the first-ever creative director of which sunglasses brand?
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Ray-Ban
The same year the CFDA named him its Fashion Icon.
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In 2020, Travis Scott became the first artist since Michael Jordan to get his own meal at which fast-food chain?
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McDonald's
The Travis Scott Meal was a Quarter Pounder with bacon, fries and a Sprite, and it came with a McNugget body pillow in his merch.
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Travis Scott named Astroworld after a theme park torn down in 2005 in his home city. Which city?
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Houston
Travis said the album should sound like 'taking an amusement park away from kids'; the park became apartments.
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Which rapper surprised the 2022 Super Bowl halftime crowd by performing hanging upside down, like in his old video?
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50 Cent
He copied his 2003 In Da Club video; he later called the stunt a mistake.
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Kendrick Lamar was asked for a few songs for a 2018 Marvel film and made a whole album instead. Which film?
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Black Panther
Black Panther: The Album went to No. 1 in the US, and its song 'All the Stars' with SZA got an Oscar nomination.
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Since 2019 the NFL's partner for the Super Bowl halftime show has been an entertainment company founded by Beyoncé's husband. Name it.
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Roc Nation
That's why Jay-Z's team has helped produce every halftime show since, Kendrick Lamar's included.
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Which trio's Licensed to Ill became the first rap album to top the Billboard 200?
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Beastie Boys
It reached No. 1 in March 1987 and stayed there for seven weeks.
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Only two rap albums have won the Grammy for Album of the Year: Lauryn Hill's in 1999 and which Atlanta duo's double album in 2004?
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OutKast
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was really two solo albums in one, by Big Boi and André 3000.
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In 2017, hip-hop and R&B became the most-consumed music in the US for the first time. Which genre did they overtake?
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Rock
Streaming did it: rap ruled on-demand plays, while the old leader still sold more albums.
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Which Chicago rapper won a Grammy in 2017 for an album nobody could buy, only stream?
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Chance the Rapper
Coloring Book won Best Rap Album after the Grammys changed the rules to let streaming-only releases in.
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Doechii's 2025 Best Rap Album win made her only the third woman to take it, after Lauryn Hill's group and which Bronx rapper?
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Cardi B
Cardi won in 2019 with Invasion of Privacy, the first solo woman ever to take the award.
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Which rapper's 2014 album, with no guest verses at all, went platinum and became a running internet joke?
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J. Cole
Fans posted 'platinum with no features' under everything, and his next album pulled off the same trick.
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Which Staten Island crew entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2026, in the same class as Oasis and Iron Maiden?
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Wu-Tang Clan
Two rap pioneers went in that year too: Queen Latifah and MC Lyte, with the Early Influence award.
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Ludacris got the role of Tej in 2 Fast 2 Furious only after which rapper turned down coming back for the sequel?
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Ja Rule
Director John Singleton picked Ludacris instead, and Tej became a regular for over 20 years.
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Hip-hop's birthday is a 1973 back-to-school party in a Bronx rec room. Which Jamaican-born DJ played it?
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DJ Kool Herc
His sister Cindy threw the party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, and he stretched out the drum breaks for dancers.
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Questions about this quiz
How many questions are in the Hip-Hop Trivia Quiz?
123. Each game plays a round of them, so you can come back for more.
Can I play the Hip-Hop Trivia Quiz with friends online?
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Is the Hip-Hop Trivia Quiz free?
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Do I have to spell the answers exactly?
No. You type your answers, and Braggit accepts close spellings, so a small typo still scores.
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