Hops

Hip Hop: A Revolution in Personal Style I. Introduction A. Birthed in South Bronx, hip hop music and its style penetrated America in the late 1980s after MTV began playing heavily on rotation rap videos and launched Yo! MTV Raps in 1988. Music videos were like a soundtrack that people needed a wardrobe to wear. B. Fashion is used to assimilate with peers. Hip Hop aficionados’ objective is to stand out in a crowd. Signature style is like a freestyle performance. It demonstrates an individual’s

stated before, hip-hop became not only a genre of music, but a culture and a movement. People who listen to that music view themselves as more than fans. Hip hop is their life. “(…) the longevity of rap’s appeal for young people is firmly linked with the way in which rap can be used as a meaning of engaging with and expressing dissatisfaction at the more restrictive features of everyday life in globally diffuse social settings.” (Bennett, 2001, p. 89). As well as other cultures, Hip Hop has its foundational

Hip-hop (also referred to as rap music) originated in Bronx, New York in the mid 70’s as an underground urban movement. The genre started off consisting as either “MCing” over a beat or mixing and scratching audio. This was also accompanied by the introduction of breakdancing and graffiti or street art by youth living within the inner city, a great majority of whom were African American teens. Hip-hop continued to gain in popularity throughout the 70’s and by the early 80’s it had become a huge

HIP HOP/RAP When we think of hip hop do we think of the dance or do we think of the music? More often than not we think of the music industry when someone says hip hop. however hip hop music was created with the dance. Both were created in the 1970’s by the African American and Puerto Rican people in New York. The music originally incorporated the Rhythms of salsa, Afro conga, bongo drums, jazz and funk and became more popular outside of the African American community around the 1980’s. Although

As music generally known for referencing violence, rebellion, and disorder, hip hop and rap have rapidly become prominent genres of music in today’s culture. Beginning in the 1970’s at New York City block parties, hip hop became a fan favorite as a radical new mix of upbeat funk and disco music. Mixing and isolating the percussive breaks of funk songs, DJ Kool Herc, the founding father of hip hop, began to use turntables to manipulate songs on records manually. These uptempo, catchy beats became

Have you ever heard someone say, "I hate all music."? Lately though music has been criticized for corrupting teen's minds. Hip Hop is being blamed for all the crimes and murders in cities all over America and heavy metal is being blamed for giving teens only dark images and thoughts in their minds.      First we must ask what Hip Hop is to us or to others, who simply don’t know or may never feel our movement in society. This form of poetry and story telling has took

The main theme discussed in this film was the relationship between Hip Hop and masculinity. Let’s say that the litters of Hip Hop makes man feels powerful. Mans want to be hard, it means be strong and be in control all the time. All Hip Hop videos are about kill another man, put others man down by femelize then. Hip Hop is about ghettos people, south Bronx, poor communities, black, latinos, gung… These men in the Hip Hop videos looks very intimidating and muscular basically that’s what represent

be categorized as hip-hop because when I look at both of the picture I'm not persuade that the picture have anything to do with hip hop at all. I can say when I see the image of the radio I have a sense that the artist was making that painting in reference to music. The painting of the man the horse would give you some what idea of someone who maybe listen to hip-hop or rap music but you could be wrong so the image gives off less of reason to say it's a picture about hip-hop. Also you could tell the

For my lesson, I decided to teach Hip Hop history through a particular sub-culture known as “battle rap”. My student was Bradley Girigorie, a 21 year old male. I went on to explain to Brad that if it was not for battle rap, the culture of Hip-Hop would be a lot different than it is today. First, I started the lesson by saying Hip Hop was more DJ oriented during the early stages of the genre. That rap battles during the 70’s and 80’s were more about crowd presence rather than better lyrics. I continued

The Rise of Hip Hop Culture Hip hop, the creation of electronic sound and enticing language is a style born from the African American and Hispanic cultures. It formed in New York City from block parties and the participation of the youth culture. This style of music began as a minimal change in rhythm to a globally popular culture consisting of graffiti art, dancing, and music. Hip hop was not only a type of tasteful music, but it also became a benchmark in history. When this style of music was