ROOT OF HIP HOP
When you hear the phrase “Hip-Hop” what do you think of music, dancing, rapping? ... hip hop is a culture. ... ” Hip Hop is much more than a form of entertainment. Hip Hop identifies races, nationalities and communities. ... One artist defined hip hop as a set of expressions in vocalization, instrumental dancing and the visual arts. “More specifically, hip hop is a combination of graffiti, breakdancing, d-jays and mcing, that creates a lifestyle with its own language, style of dress, music and mind itself that’s continuously evolving. ... Which is what hip hop is all about. After Hip-Hop became “Americanized,” the other forms of the culture became prevalent. For example, art has been drawn on walls since the beginning of time, but a new type of graffiti wall art came of the hip hop culture in the late 1960s and 1970s. ... Along with popularity of graffiti, came the commercialization of what and many people in the hip-hop culture kept doing it. ... In the 80s the hip-hop generation was put on the map. ... Rap is a collaboration of Motown, Disco, and Jazz music which together created hip-hop, and a new style of dance. ... Another element of the hip-hop culture is Djing. ... ” Djing came into play around the same time as break dancing and as funk and hip-hop continuously turned out more beat oriented music and rappers started coming into the picture. ... It didn’t take long for the DJ to become an instrumental factor in the evolution of hip-hop. ... Mcing (rapping) is a very large element of hip-hop. ... But they still work together to create a fresh product that the hip hop community will want to listen to. ... Despite the four general categories of hip-hop, it has experimented with a lot of different styles of music and there are a lot of people who have brought different changes over time. Unlike so many other cultural facts, hip-hop music in general is colorless and not racist. ... Young urban African Americans these days in hip hop focus on sex, violence, and drugs, and most of all money.