The Origination Of Hip Hop

The rap subculture is widely agreed to have been established in the Bronx, New York during the 1970’s. At a time when block parties became popular, especially among African-American youths, hip-hop music was a means of expressing opinions and values and as a new source of communication. At these gatherings, DJs would play percussive breaks from popular songs, often on two turntables to enable them to extend these breaks. This new culture defined itself by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, scratching/DJing, graffiti writing and break dancing. As this style of music became more established, an evolution began, as sampling technology and drum machines became more affordable and widely available.

Hip-hop is known as a culture movement. Hip-hop is a pleasing art form, formed by African-Americans and Latinos in the late seventies. Its formation derives from a young generation of African-Americans in South Bronx, New York. They created a beautiful, complimentary expression of melody, skill and dance from an environment of poverty. Ever since it has encouraged people from all across the world. Hip-hop is discussed as an art form and not just flowing, it typically is meant to include the four essentials: DJing, MCing, graffiti writing, and break dancing. Hip Hop helped renew the identity of these elements. In studying the history of hip hop; it has influences on many cultures. Early hip-hop was credited to help inner-city gang

Hip hop music has delivered messages of freedom of expression, unity, peace, and protest against social injustices, for the past 30 years. But exactly when and where did it begin, and what impact has it had on our society? The hip hop beats created by DJs in the 70s actually sparked what is now known as hip hop culture. Hip hop culture originally included rapping, break dancing, graffiti, beat boxing, and looping and scratching, and has now includes urban clothing and cars, speech patterns and slang, and movement styles. In the early 70s, in New York 's South Bronx, the music genre of hip hop was born. The man behind its birth was Clive Campbell, aka DJ Kool Herc, who was from Kingston, Jamaica. DJ Kool Herc began to use two turntables to bring out the parts of the song that people liked best, and he rapped along to encourage break dancing. Before the 1980s, hip hop music was mainly seen within the United States. However, during the 1980s, it began its spread and became a part of the popular music scene in many other countries. The popularity of hip hop music continued through the 1990s and 2000s. Dr. Dre and Eminem were two of the most successful rappers at that time. Hip hop influences also found their way into pop during this period mainly through the mid-2000s. Rappers such as Kanye West and Jay Z also began to become popular in the mid-2000s. Hip Hop and Rap was mainly created because of the different style of music and beat it gave. Before this genre of music began,

The beginning of this Cultural Revolution began because of the high level of American cultural literacy the Jamaican immigrant came to the United States with. The country of Jamaica had been flooded with Americans goods and products since the 1950s. “From American rhythm and blues to Hollywood Western movies, Jamaicans took the offerings of First World power and changed them from ‘below.’”(177) During the 1970s, the Jamaican immigrants were able to create in the American paradigm of the music business. This shift was founded mostly on the Jamaican concept of “bricolage”(178) which translates to making new products out of minimal resources. One of the most recognized Jamaican immigrants that generated the idea of hip hop was a man by the name of Clive Campbell, aka DJ Kool Herc. One of Campbell’s more popular creations was when he extended the ‘break’ of the song by switching between two of the same records. The idea of ‘break’ dancing came from this early innovation. In addition, Clive Campbell created applied the ideas of using a vocalist during the break. Some of the catch phrases used consisted of “to the beat y’all” and “you don’t stop.”(180) These ideas that Campbell was introducing into American music were concepts that were already being used in Jamaica. If Jamaicans had never immigrated, hip hop would have never become as popular as early as it did.

Many of people may be unaware of the fact that the birth of hip-hop was actually in 1520 on Sedgwick Avenue. DJ Kool Herc was acknowledging as the founding father of hip-hop at the time because of his unique ear of hearing and creating different music. It’s very rare that people will mention this because at the time hip-hop wasn’t a force in the music industry until the late 1990’s. It’s been approximately 30 years since the pertinent genre was actually recognized for its production in the music business. Over the time, hip-hop became legendary not only in the United States but also worldwide, which eventually led to many opportunities of exposure. Brand managers saw it as an opportunity to use hip-hop to advertise products because the amount of publicity it received. Movies, magazines, radio stations, and commercials were all great promoting tools; but was fashion the most effective of them all? Did fashion increase the relevance of hip-hop? What would hip-hop be without fashion? I find all three questions important but yet rhetorical because without fashion you have no image, which is now one of the most important traits to have when being a hip-hop star. Trends like baggy pants, high-top fades, shell toe Adidas, starter jackets, and skinny leather sweat suits are what makes the hip-hop culture unique and different form other genres. Iconic trends similar to those are what kept me modeling in the mirror trying to mimic famous hip-hop artist until no one could tell the

Hip hop is widely known as a genre of music that started in a New York City borough called the Bronx in the late 1970s, but it is more than just the music. Hip hop is a culture that consists of being a disc jockey which is also known as deejaying or turntabling, breakdancing, MCing or rhyming “rapping”, graffiti, and fashion. Each of these items are key elements in creating hip hop and these key items are part of the hip hop culture. Deejaying was an important factor contributing to hip hop culture since it sort of gave birth to hip hop. For instance, breaking dancing became huge for early hip hop since DJs played music that was perfect for breakdancers. DJs also looked for rappers or MCs to partner up with their music to give it more

This paper traces the roots of Hip Hop culture, particularly focusing on the form of dance known as Bboying, Bgirling or Breakin'. This dance form is also known as breakdancing in general. It does this by conducting interviews on pioneers and practitioners of breakin', while analyzing some previous research at the same time. By doing so, the paper attempts to achieve three goals:

Do you like hip hop or like to dance well so do I here I talk about where it originated. I chose hip hop because a lot of kids these days are listening and dancing. So I thought that if I do this a lot of people will understand what I am talking about and how to relate. To me hip hop is what I listen to but I like rap but I might listen to hip hop a little bit. There are a lot of dance moves to go with songs these days like people, like me like to do.

Hip hop is a very broad subculture due to the fact that it is comprised of so many other subcultures. The four main factions of Hip hop are MCing(master of ceremonies) better identified today as rapping, DJing (disk jockey), breakdancing and Graffiti. Break dancing is known as “ the physical manifestation of the hip hop style”(Rose 47). The Hip hop subculture has a long lineage and the four main factions where all foraged together in the same place at the same time. Even though the culture at the time was viewed as deviant hip hop slowly became a very popular subculture in America. Due to the fact that Hip-hop is so popular makes me believe that the breaking subculture has been absorbed into mainstream culture.

The music that truly inspires who I am today would have to be hip-hop. The genre itself has been around for generations and many more to come. Let alone of the sheer diversity of the genre. Also, the variations each rapper, emcee, etc. to bring to the genre makes it so much larger than people may think about it. Last, but not least hip-hop has a lot of culture and its only been around since 1979.

Rap is about forty-five years old, and yet the density of its history is staggering. Starting with roots starting in West Africa bards, rap evolved from DJs and spoken word poetry related to the Black arts. With the background of DJ dance music and the rhyming scheme of poetry, rap started to evolve into its own genre which we know today. Even today you can find references to rap’s forefathers in such albums as Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly or Kanye West’s College Dropout. Their jazzy instrumentals or gospel influences are nods to what gave birth to rap. To be even more specific Fahashima Pratricia Brown noted that similarities between rap and its forefathers are “toasts and boasts … , shouts, jubilees, gospel songs, field hollers, work

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, language is "the system of words or signs that people use to express thoughts and feelings to each other". Therefore, language can be considered as a form of human communication. As cultures and societies grow and evolve, language evolves with them too. Annually, four thousand words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary . Many factors contribute to the evolution of the English Language such as: technological advances, interaction and exposure to other languages, and the always evolving contemporary American culture. The hip hop culture greatly contributes to the semantic change of the English language.

Korea is a vibrant environment for contemporary music, and produces a wide array of styles. The country has produced internationally prominent composers and singers including Psy in which one of his music became a global phenomenon. Moreover, a new genre called Kpop also emerged during the 1990 's up to present. Today, The melodies of Korean music are quite similar to the mood of early 2000 's rhythm and blues music from America. Reflections of African American music are quite prominent due to Korea 's western influence and the United State 's heavy influence of Negro spirituals deriving in the 1800s during slavery of which you still see in music today. Story telling is very important in every culture and as Korea has had it 's own hardships it is easy to see how musicians took their own hardships applied them to influences from African Americans.

Hip hop was a widely popular genre of music in the 1970s. With a rich history of over 40 years, including numerous pioneers such as DJ Kool Herc, DJ Afrika Bambaataa and B-boy Ken Swift fronting the image of the hip hop culture, it is not tough for one to gain insider knowledge on the cultural movement and understand what Hip Hop music is and how it has impacted the world even till this day. Unfortunately, not many people understand the basis and reasons of how and why hip hop music came to be. In the local context of Singapore, many young people are oblivious to the origins of Hip Hop or show no interest in the culture, even as a music genre. Young dancers who practice the Hip Hop culture as a form of expression are often confused between

Many people have different versions to how Hip Hop was created. The one most often believed is how Dj Kool Herc came across 3 of the components that make up hip hop. When trying to entertain at a birthday party using a turntable, he accidentally expanded a break in the beat. A technique now known as scratching was invented and people began to rhyme, and breakdance during this break. Mceeing or rapping to the beats made by a dj and his turntable, the most popular of the foundations of hip hop, took the Black and Puerto Rican communities by storm. Eventually spreading out from the select neighborhoods, making its way to the rest of the world. Though people were dubious about this style of music becoming popular, now rap music is one of the most listened