Sugar Hill Records

is the founder of a record company called Motown. Motown is a record company that had recorded so of the famous singers/bands that were just starting their music career, like the Jackson 5, and Michael Jackson. Robin Williams was born on July21, 1951. Robin Williams was born in Chicago, but he was raised in Bloomfield Hills Michigan. Robin Williams was in a show that was called weapons of Self-Destruction, and was found

Assignment 4 Hip Hop is a genre of music consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. Hip-hop is not only a genre of music its a form of art and culture. It can also be a style and language. Hip Hop is described as accompanying background music but is often a synonym to rap music. In this paper I will show how rap got started and evolved into the culture we know today as Hip Hop. There were many influences of rap music as early as

It was a Tuesday morning in the Information Technology class at State College. An older student was doing his best to ignore the loud, obscene disruption occurring next to him, the result of two younger students ignoring the lesson at hand. Finally, he gave in and spoke up against their sanctimonious display, and was quickly bullied and threatened with violence in front of the entire class. Both aggressors exemplified and embodied every aspect of the hip-hop culture: Ebonics spewing out of their

differences and similarities between “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and “N.Y. State of Mind” by Nas. Although both records are significantly different in terms of the musical aspects of each song, they are ultimately similar in that they both portray the reality of the ghetto areas in New York through the significant use of rapping. Thus, both records have significantly impacted the evolution of rap music and rap’s role in the music industry today. Both ultimately are used to promote

L’Enfant designed the city from scratch, he imagined and put to life a grand capital of wide avenues, public squares and additional buildings in what was then plantations, marshes, forests, and hills. The Frenchman placed Congress on a high point with a commanding view of the Potomac River. He made the Capitol Hill the center of the city. L’ Enfant designed wide boulevards for easy transportation across town and offered views of important buildings and common squares from great distances. Public squares

hip hop. Every article regarding the origins of hip hop mentioned DJ Kool Herc and how he first sculpted the genre in the South Bronx, New York. From there, the research leads to the first commercially successful rap song, ‘Rapper's Delight’ by Sugar Hill Gang. We gained further knowledge of our statement when we conducted a survey. The survey was given to students and staff at our school. This helped us see what kind of music people in our area like.The survey consisted of three questions: what

When the music is being spun by the DJ that is when an MC raps. Coke La Rock, Busy Bee, and Luvbug Starts were the earlier MC’s. B-boying was a style of dance associated with hip-hop. The people who danced while a DJ would spin his records were called B-boys and B-girls. The B-boys did many footwork combinations, kicks, spins, and balances on their hands, shoulders, and heads. B-Girl and B-Boy dance battles were very common in the early days of hip-hop culture. On August 11, 1973, the

Hip Hop culture has come from a inner city expression of life to a multi-billion dollar business. At the beginning of the new millennium it was the top selling genre in the pop charts. It had influences not only on music, but on fashion, film, television, and print. In 2004 Hip Hop celebrated its 30th year anniversary. It wasn’t big for the fact that it was still kicking. It was big because the once Black/Brown inner city culture had grown into a multi-billion dollar global phenomenon (Reeves).

four major elements, which are B-boying, Graffiti, MCing, and Djing. Usually when people are asked about Hip hop most of the time they visualize rappers. What people do not know is that MCing is the very first characteristics of hip hop. Playing a record on turntables is

called “merry go round”. Herc used two turntables playing the same break beat section of the James Brown record “clap your hands”. When one turntable finished playing the section he would switch to the other turntable and play the same section. This allowed him to extend that section of the song as long as he wanted. This technique is referred to as looping. This technique is used by record producers in almost every beat today. Over the next couple of years Djs and rappers were popping up at every