Starter For Eleven: Talib Kweli

Q1. Which Jamaican DJ born Clive Campbell is known as “the man who started it all”?
Kool Herc.
A. DJ Kool Herc (1 point)

Q2. Which New York rapper, born Gabriel Jackson, is credited with originating the term 'hip-hop'?
I’m gonna guess…is that Grandmaster Flash?
A. Spoonie Gee (0 points)

Q3. Who were the first rap artists to be inducted into the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame in 2007?
Run DMC.
A. Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five (in 2007) (0 points)

Q4. Born in London in 1965, which Grammy nominated rapper recorded tracks such as Children's Story and Hey Young World?
Slick Rick.
A. Slick Rick (1 point)

Q5. A point for each member of De La Soul – any incarnation of their names…
Trugoy, Plug One, Dave Posdnus, Plug Wonder Why, Plug Two, Maseo, Vincent ‘Maseo’ Mason, Plug Three…
A. Kelvin Mercer (AKA Posdnuos, Mercenary, Plug Wonder Why, Plug One), David Jude Jolicoeur (AKA Trugoy the Dove, Dave, Plug Two) and Vincent Mason (AKA P.A. Pasemaster Mase, Maseo, Plug Three) (3 points)

Q6. Who was known occasionally as Plug 4 or The Undertaker?
Prince Paul.
A. 'Prince' Paul Huston (1 point)

For a bonus point, can you name all three groups he’s been a part of? Gravediggaz, Stetsasonic and Handsome Boy Modeling School.
A. Gravediggaz, Stetsasonic and Handsome Boy Modeling School (1 point)

Q7. Which group debuted on the 3rd Bass song The Gas Face in '89 before finally releasing their own album titled Mr Hood in 1991?
KMD.
A. KMD (1 point)

A bonus point if you can name the MC who eventually emerged from that group to have great solo success since 1997.
Zev Love X, AKA MF DOOM.
A. Daniel 'DOOM' Dumile (known in his KMD days as Zev Love X)  (1 point)

Q8. Which influential South Bronx group was dubbed after the area's nickname?
A. Oh, Boogie Down Productions.
A. Boogie Down Productions (1 point)

Q9. Which abstract MC from Queens invited a hard rock vocalist to guest on his 1999 solo debut simply because they shared the same birth name?
Wow, I have no idea.
A. Q-Tip (birth name Jonathan Davis) enlisted Korn frontman Jonathan Davis to sing on End Of Time (0 points)

Q10. What is 'industry rule #4,080'?
A. Record company people are shady.
A. Record company people are shady (a lyric from A Tribe Called Quest’s Check The Rhime on 1991 album The Low End Theory) (1 point)

Q11. Who was the first MC to sign to a major label?
Kurtis Blow
A. Kurtis Blow (signed by Mercury in 1979)  (1 point)

A respectable 12 points rockets Mr Kweli to the top of the leaderboard, 
A delighted Mr Kweli: Oh really? Daaamn.

• Shortly after this quiz our reigning champ triggered a fierce Twitter debate over who really coined the term 'hip-hop'. Did Wikipedia lie to us? Was Talib robbed of a point? Answers on a post card.