Sugar Hill Records

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its birth, rap would not be the multi-billion dollar industry it is today. One of the most major contributors to this new scene would most definitely be Sylvia Robinson, otherwise known as the grandmother of hip hop. This woman, the founder of Sugar Hill Records, released the first official rap song called “Rapper’s Delight”. The song was so successful that it actually made it on the billboard charts at #36. It was also rated #14 on the R&B charts for two weeks straight. Sylvia Robinson was so experienced

two different time periods. The first song is “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five (1982) and the other song is “My Block” by Tupac Shakur (1995). “The Message” was recorded by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five on the Sugar Hill Record label. Released July 1,1982 as a single was later featured on the group’s first studio album titled The Message. The lyrics were written and performed by Melle Mel and Ed” Duke Bootee” Fletcher with Grandmaster Flash as the DJ. At that time in

Kool Herc began spinning records at parties and between sets his father’s band played while he was a teenager in the Bronx in the early 1970s. Herc often emulated the style of Jamaican “selectors” (DJs) by “toasting” (i.e., talking) over the records he spun, but his historical significance has nothing to do with rapping. Kool Herc’s contribution to hip hop was even more fundamental. Born and raised to the age of 10 in Kingston, Jamaica, DJ Kool Herc began spinning records at parties and between

Our 44th President, Barack Obama, described hip-hop in the following statement, “The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable” (CITE). Whether it be shouting the infamous Notorious B.I.G’s lyric, ‘birthdays was the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thirsty’ at any social gathering or listening to the promotion of black unity by Kendrick Lamar, hip-hop has been the genre that has had one of,

migrated to the United States from Kingston, Jamaica and settled in the West Bronx of New York. Kool DJ Herc was a disc jockey that attempted to incorporate his Jamaica style of disc jockeying, which involved reciting improvised rhymes over reggae records. Unfortunately for Kool DJ Herc New York seemed

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people. This genre is hip-hop/rap music. The hip-hop culture/ rap culture begin in New York City over 25 years ago. Hip-hop begin in the early 1970s, and was found by a man named Kool dj herco who was a disc jockey, who learned to take identical records using an audio mixer, that he could play any segment over and over, which extended one segment for entire song. Hip-hop begin to become very popular throughout urban areas of new York. As rap music begin to grow in New York, people begin use rap

“To gaze into another person’s face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity and to assert your own” –Aminata Diallo. The Book of Negros was written by Canadian author Lawrence Hill. The Book of Negros is about a young girl named Aminata who is brought to London, England, in 1802, by abolitionists who are petitioning to end the slave trade. As she awaits an audience with King George to speak on her personal experience of being a captured slave, she recounts on paper her life story. Aminata

In order to understand hip-hop dance, it is important to recognize hip-hop music and where it came from. Many scholars of rap music relate the founding of rap to African and African American oral and musical traditions, specifically African griots and storytellers. They link the rhythm of rap to the use of drums in Africa and to African American music in the United States, from slave songs and spirituals to jazz and R&B. Scholars have found very interesting connections between rap music and Black