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50 Years & Still Rocking! 10 Notable Rolling Stones Moments Involving Hip-Hop (LIST)

Posted July 12, 2012 by Dimas Sanfiorenzo for Global Grind Staff

Today, 50 years ago, rock and roll was born.

OK, that's probably a little extreme. But today, 50 years ago, The Rolling Stones played their first gig together, starting a historic musical relationship that can't be matched.

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A half a century later and the band's two leaders, singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards, are still rocking...even though things haven't always been easy.  

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We know that most of our audience falls in the hip-pop space and classical rock really isn’t your thing. So we thought it would be cool to combine the two worlds. 

The Rolling Stones and hip-hop have had a complicated, almost non-existent relationship (Keith Richards once said in a 2007 interview that he was "cold to hip-hop.")

However, we were able to find a couple of instances where the two worlds collided. Here are our ten favorite Rolling Stones and hip-hop moments. 


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