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Ah, if only DJing was that simple.
I asked a very similar question myself when I started playing US hip hop.
I did get some good responses but found that knowing the good artists is just the tip of the iceberg.
Particularly with hip hop, some of the artists release a new tune every week and only
about 5% of them ever get good reactions to certain dancefloors.
It also goes without mentioning that different parts of the US have very different tastes.

Start by knowing the charts
Then get an idea what your dancefloor wants.
Its a lot of work but its all worth it

you wanna hear a good hip-hop band, listen to The Roots….also if you like DJing and shit look up teh X-ecutioners or some of their members like Roc Raida who was the DMC world champion in 1996….also check out some of The World Famous Beat Junkies : Babu, J Rocc and DJ Rhettmatic….

if you want a quick schooling in what groups, bands and/or artists do what in which type of genre, spend an hour on juno.co.uk going through each genre (the best sellers chart is good) and listen to the samples to get a feel of what you like and what you don’t like.

Or go full hog like most dj’s and listen to a hell of a lot of music…all the time. You’ll be broke (or have a huge hard drive of music of which half you’ll probably never play or listen to) by the end of it happy hunting, young padiwan.

Electronic Music DJ’s which will show you the way to the promised land:

Sasha and Digweed
Deep Dish
Danny Howells
Nick Warren
Danny Tenaglia
John Graham (Quivver)
James Zabiela
Nick Fanciulli
Jimmy Van M
Lee Burridge
Dave Seaman
Jonnie Sparko
M.A.N.D.Y.

Try Death From Above 1979, that could be sick