In the 20’s this music was Jazz. In the 80’s America saw the same urban African American culture embrace the hip hop movement. Similar in many respects with their secular themes, improvisation, polyrhythm, and use of call-and-response, hip hop became the new way to express the struggles while carrying on the tradition style of African American music. One of the most visible examples of hip hop’s roots in jazz is the basis of the art form, the beat. Hip hop originated when New York DJ’s began isolating the percussion breaks on funk and rock records.
To start this story you have to talk about DJ Kool Herc. “Hip-Hop emerged in the 1970’s upon the arrival of a one Kool DJ Herc. Kool DJ Herc 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
Hip Hop was formed in the early 1970’s. Artists such as James Brown, Grand Master Flex, Afrika Bambaataa, Fab 5 Freddy, and DJ Hollywood were one of the first to introduce Hip Hop. The origin of this music genre stemmed from block parties of the Ghetto Brothers. It was stated that the Ghetto Brothers used to plug their instruments and amps up for these parties and enjoy themselves. An artist people love to jam to during this period of time was a popular artist who is well known today as James Brown.
Many of my friends and acquaintances have also taken a liking to hip hop. How has hip hop transformed from a genre of music almost exclusively enjoyed by African Americans to a genre that has now permeated into white America? The transformation is the direct response to the commodification of African American leisure in urban areas. Recognizing this transformation is an example of displaying a sociological imagination. Let us first explore what brought me to question the transformation of hip hop.
It is considered by many critics as the very first gangsta rap song. The LA gangsta rap scene exploded afterward. A young drug dealer named Eric Wright saw the potential profits and fame of the hip hop lifestyle, so he began recording songs in his parents' garage. Wright, going by the name Eazy-E, befriended two local artists named Dr. Dre and Ice Cube. Along with locals DJ Yella and Arabian Prince, the group became N.W.A (Niggaz Wit Attitude).
Student’s name Instructor Course Date Passion and Culture in Wild Style Introduction Wild Style film is considered to be the pioneer of the Hip Hop motion picture production where it featured prominent figures in this industry like Grandmaster Flash (Gale). The film is about a local graffiti artist whose works are tremendously unusual. The film spins around the living standards of the Bronx, entirely. The film depicted the growth of urban cultures as of music and graffiti. Zoro’s relationship with Rose, a fellow artist in the film, is also a major theme as it is a concern for the character as he develops his art.
That’s “Hot” In “What’s Black, Then White, and Said All Over” Leslie Savan explores the appropriation of the black language into pop culture and its use in advertising and marketing. Savan goes into detail about uses of black vernacular and the “wannabe” (189) nation of different ethnic groups who adopt these slang terms as their own in order to be “cool”. Among these terms is “hot”, which has a vast background in the pop culture and hip hop community and has been associated with being “cool” throughout the youth for the past two decades. (Hot – Having or giving off heat; having a high temperature). At least that’s what “hot” used to be mainly defined as, but in today’s pop culture, it has taken on a whole different meaning.
Reverse Outline: Paragraph 1: * Assertion: Schoolly D a Hip Hop rapper from Philadelphia created the genre, Gangsta Rap, and with his lyrics he influenced upcoming rappers throughout America. * Schoolly D is the pioneer of Gangsta Rap, his lyrics mention real life experiences like, selling drugs, being in a gang, and violence he's witnesses throughout his hometown. * Once the song, "P.S.K. (Park Side Killers) What Does That Mean? ", it immediately became a hit that branched out to the West Coast, which created a whole new wave of Hip Hop.
How has the language of hip-hop and rap music contributed to social change? Hip-Hop culture is a movement that originated in South Bronx of New York City and started during the 1970s, it includes music, rapping, dee-jaying, graffiti art, break dancing, fashion, poetry, and awareness of urban communities. (Greene and Sealey-Ruiz). Rap music is a popular music that consists of rhyming lyrics over a beat/musical accompaniment. “Rap as an art form, began as personal narrative, telling the individual stories of urban lives ignored by the mainstream media.”(Rose, p.2-3).
This is were and why hip hop was created. People used to rap battle each other, do graffiti, and break dance to crowds, this is was hip-hop culture being born. ‘Rap is something you do, Hip Hop is something you live’Krs-One QuotesThe first ever rap record released was ‘The message’ by Grandmaster Flash and the furious five in 1982. The song is about being stuck in the Bronx and how bad life was. Originally rap has dissented from Jamaican tribal chants and slave chants.