Hip Hop Influence On The Black Community

In the early 80s in South Bronx, hip hop culture was created as a way people expressed themselves to make a statement of some sort of art form that was diffused within the local community without outside influences orally and through localization. Commercialization changed and evolved these cultures making the producers not equal the consumers; globalization diffused these cultures with mass communication with the media. Spatially, hip hop used to be concentrated within a local community and it spread through relocation of the subway graffitti, while now it’s urbanized around the globe. In terms of social characteristics, rap has always been there as a way to express oneself through art forms such as b-boying, graffiti, and rapping; now it’s

Hip Hop is more than just music and lyrics; it’s a culture that set the latest trends for fashion, slang, and ways of life. Since Hip Hop holds such a powerful influence on the world, how do the artists’ depiction of their musical expression display the African American community as a whole?

Hip-hop culture began to develop in the south Bronx area of New York City during the 1970s. It had a significant influence in the music industry. Hip-hop music generally includes rapping, but other elements such as sampling and beatboxing also play important roles. Rapping, as a key part in the hip-hop music, takes different forms, which including signifying, dozen, toast and jazz poetry. Initially, hip-hop music was a voice of people living in low-income areas, reflecting social, economic and political phenomenon in their life [1]. As time moves on, hip-hop music reached its “golden age”, where it became a mainstream music, featuring diversity, quality, innovation and influence [2]. Gangsta rap, one of the most significant innovations in

Rap and Hip-Hop originated in the 1970’s in New York City's South Bronx neighborhood as a street-born cultural movement which is known for DJ-ing (using a turntable as an instrument by manipulating songs and creating sounds while spinning vinyl records on the turntable), MC-ing (Rhyming and lyrics spoken at a fast pace), breakdancing or b-boying (athletic style of street dancing), and graffiti art. By the 1980’s, hip-hop was the primary cultural movement of the African American and Hispanic communities. Rap and Hip Hop has been known to be the voice of the poor youth. Mainstream white consumers quickly accepted hip-hop through movies, music videos, radio, and media coverage. Rap, in particular, found a wide multicultural audience and emerged

When hip hop music first developed in the late 1970s, not many people knew about it. It was created in the poorest districts of New York City by African American and Latino teenagers as part of a hip hop scene that also produced breakdancing and graffiti art. Many of these young people were unemployed, but some found work as DJs in discos where they learned deejaying techniques like how to use two turntables and a DJ mixer to play records non-stop. Sometimes they'd also deejay at free block parties in their neighbourhoods where they'd play funk and disco tracks non-stop and ask a friend to act as their MC.

Hip Hop was born in the neighborhood, where young people gathered in parks, on playgrounds, and street corners, to speak poetry over mechanical sounds and borrowed melodies. Hip Hop was always bigger than just the music; it was also break dancing, the gymnastic dance style that valued improvised, angular athleticism over choreographed fluidity. Hip hop was also fashion such as: hats, jackets, gold chains, and brand sneakers. Hip Hop was graffiti, to a new way of expression that employed spray paint as the medium and subway walls as the canvas.

Music has been here since the dawn of time. It's considered the universal language in the world and can relate to every individual in one way or another. Music has a way of bringing opposite people together through various emotions. Music has a way of explaining things in ways that words cannot. Our group chose to focus on the racial diversity in the music industry because of the ever-growing popularity of music. Now people are becoming more accepting of other's cultures, however; progress cannot be made overnight and it is evident within the music industry.

Hip-hop originated in African American communities in New York during the 70’s, although it became much more public and mainstream in the mid 80s. Early in hip hops emergence to popular culture, MTV made it very hard for this genre to break into the scene as it was refused to show music videos of black artists. After much talk and criticism, the series began to introduce black artists like Michael Jackson, whose videos ironically became the most popular. This eventually paved the way for artists like LL Cool J and Run DMC to make their names public and who influenced the era of commercialized rap music. While hip hop was increasing in popularity through MTV, it gave white people a taste if inner city culture and there began many conversations

The youthful culture of Hip Hop has built an illustrious history for itself. Beginning as a pastime for underprivileged kids and young adults in the South Bronx, N.Y., hip-hop spread throughout the New York City streets and beyond, eventually becoming

When hip-hop first emerged in the streets of New York in the 1970s, nobody predicted that this new type of sound would become as admired and widespread as it has become. This new genre of music has encouraged and motivated numerous artists from not just the United States, but elsewhere to integrate their own originality and create a new sound that several audiences can enjoy throughout.

From here and even till this day, hip hop made its way around the world. Compared to many other dance forms, hip hop has a relatively short history. The musical movement of hip hop originated in the predominantly post industrial African American economy of the South Bronx section of New York City. Although this was more official, hip hop music, movements, techniques and styles have been incorporated far back in time all over the world. Originally hip hop came from music. Hip hop moves were prompted by complex beats or rhythms and the down-to-earth movement style of African dancing, later emerging different forms from styles such as latin and rock dance

Hip Hop music is more than just a couple of words that rhyme together; it's a culture, its spiritual movement that has helped people in various ways. Where it originated from is particularly among the African-American youth in Bronx, New York. DJ's in Bronx would isolate percussive breaks in popular songs and those genres of music were typically funk, disco, and soul records. Since those genres were relatively short, DJ's would use turn tables to extend and mix the beats which eventually formed a new genre of music known as hip hop. The father of hip pop was known as DJ Kool Herc, but other people might say Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five were the ones to do it because of their success of hip pop music. That group of artist was the

It develop in New York and is defined to the street dances styles that has evolved as hip hop culture which includes four elements which are graffiti, art, deejaying, and rapping. Graffiti and breaking were the two first elements who brought attention to the people it started in 1972 by a teenager. These elements became prominent in the 70’s the dances came from the streets and clubs, hip hop is important for african american people by the way they allowed them to create their own culture and also their music and style it is mostly described as language, attitude and customs, it

As a results of the harsh socio-economic conditions of the period, the urban youth termed the “Hip-Hop generation” turned to music to express their feelings, find respite and a sense of unity. The youth made Hip Hop so popular and powerful that the music and the resulting culture that stemmed from the South Bronx eventually became a nationwide phenomenon.

To start off we need to know what the true definition of Hip-hop. It is a music genre that originated in the United States and was popularized by African Americans in the 1970’s. There are four different elements that represent Hip-hop. Those are dancing, scratching, breakdancing and graffiti writing. There are different views on what those elements mean to kids and society today. In today’s culture all we hear about when we think about rap music is sex, money, drugs, and violence. Many suggest that children are