Yo! MTV Raps is a two-hour
American television music video program, which ran from August 1988 to August 1995. The program (created by
Ted Demme and Peter Dougherty) was the first
hip hop music show on the network, based on the original
MTV Europe show, aired one year earlier.
Yo! MTV Raps produced a lively mix of rap videos, interviews with rap stars, live in studio performances (on Fridays) and comedy. The show also yielded a Brazilian version called
Yo! MTV and broadcast by
MTV Brasil from 1990 to 2005.