Cast List

The following actors are featured in Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America

Pharrell Williams Also starred in: Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton , Nas: Time is Illmatic , Fresh Dressed

Kanye West Also starred in: Kourtney & Kim Take New York , Keeping Up with the Kardashians , Rap Sheet: Hip Hop and the Cops

Kendrick Lamar

John Legend Also starred in: Finding Your Roots , The Carlos Watson Show , Home/Free

Big Boi Also starred in: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , Who's Your Caddy? , Creepshow

André 3000 Also starred in: Four Brothers , Battle In Seattle , Jimi: All Is By My Side

Queen Latifah Also starred in: The Cookout , The Perfect Holiday , Steel Magnolias

L.A. Reid Also starred in: Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Babyface Also starred in: Babyface: MTV Unplugged NYC 1997 , Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives

Al Sharpton Also starred in: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , New York Undercover , Satan & Adam

Chuck D Also starred in: Strange Love , Who Killed Tupac? , Survivors Guide to Prison

Ahmir-Khalib Thompson Also starred in: James Brown: Say it Loud , Questlove's Potluck , Soul (2020)

Black Thought Also starred in: On the Inside , Get On Up , Bamboozled

Joseph Simmons Also starred in: Death Trip , All About the Washingtons , Growing Up Hip Hop

Darryl "DMC" McDaniels Also starred in: 50 Cent: Refuse 2 Die , Roll Bounce

LL Cool J Also starred in: Out of Sync , Comin' Up Short , Mindhunters

MC Shan

Marley Marl Also starred in: All Up in the Biz

Dame Dash

Jermaine Dupri Also starred in: The Rap Game , The New Guy , Carmen: A Hip Hopera

Funkmaster Flex

Tarana Burke

Brittany Packnett

DeRay Mckesson Also starred in: Hood Adjacent with James Davis

Roxanne Shanté

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