In the early 1970 's, disco music ruled the airways and had a huge impact on the American audience. It started by an urban gay culture in New York City and had strong connections to R&B and Funk. But during the same era, a man named DJ Kool Herc migrated to the Bronx from Jamaica with what was thought of at the time to be an unusual playlist of R&B, funk, soul and obscure disco. That was the birth of hip-hop. It emerged to become the voice of a generation that wanted to be heard and refused to be brought down by urban poverty. Nowadays, if you ask most people to give a definition of "rap", they are likely to state that it is simply the reciting of rhymes to the beat of the music. At its core, rap music is a form of expression that finds its …show more content…
After watching a portion of a movie called Wild Style during a class session, I couldn’t help but rent it out afterwards and watch the whole thing, twice. When analyzed as a basic movie, Wild Style is less than mediocre. As a document of South Bronx culture in the early 1980’s, it is beyond priceless. The producer Charlie Aheard captured the hip-hop culture right before it became a nationwide phenomenon; Wild Style portrays a first person experience of when it all began. Legendary New York graffiti artist Lee Quinones plays the part of Zoro, the city 's most elusive graffiti writer. The actual story of the movie is about Zoro 's passion for his graffiti art and his personal life, particularly his complicated relationship with fellow artist Rose who 's known as Lady Pink. The plot is ridiculous yet not completely existing, and the acting was poor but quite natural. But the movie isn 't about the story, the acting, or even the camera work and sound recording; It presents a priceless look at the movement during one of its most important stages of the hip-hop culture. It’s the classic hip-hop flick, full of great subway shots, and content of the four elements of hip-hop mentioned earlier. There is also footage of Grandmaster Flash, one of the godfathers of hip-hop, playing an awesome scratch-mix set on ancient turntables. It’s a film that has shaped a generation, purely with the members of the cast and the records used in the soundtrack. It is more like a time capsule of the early 80’s Bronx and completely immerses you in the time and culture of the rise
Dope is about a high school boy name Malcom and his friends who loved 90s hip-hop culture. The idea of this movie was to describe Black culture in two ways, student A or Student B. As the movie progressed into its twisted plot you realize sometimes it is possible to be both Student A and B. If you put your mind to it. For example, the term Slippery-Slope was used in this film as,
Rap DJ Kool Herc, who is the godfather of rap, and his sister Cindy use to through parties for kids who was going back to school. They would use these parties to spark the beginning of a genre. Hip-Hop was born on August 11 1973. One night it hit rap DJ Kool Herc’s. He wanted to do something different.
Hip Hop was the wildfire that started in the South Bronx and whose flames leapt up around the world crying out for change. James McBride’s Hip Hop Planet focuses on his personal interactions with the development of Hip Hop culture and his changing interpretations of the world wide movement. Many of his encounters and mentions in the text concern young black males and his writing follows an evolution in the representation of this specific social group. He initially portrays them as arrogant, poor, and uneducated but eventually develops their image to include the positive effects of their culture in an attempt to negate their historical misrepresentation.
How did Hip Hop originate? Hip Hop is a culture that connects the audience to the performer, or rapper, by moving the crowd through the tradition of the music, art such as graffiti, and dances such as break dancing and pop-locking. The early days of Hip Hop began in the late 1970s with artists such as Kurtis Blow and Afrika Bambaataa. Hip Hop originated in the Bronx and has spread throughout New York City before it roam across the United States.
In the article “Hip-Hop Planet” by James McBride he explains first about the nightmare he has of his daughter coming home with a young reckless rapper guy with tattoos and golden teeth and McBride for a moment is taken back to the past when he was young and it comes to thought that he was in this young wanna be rappers shoes. As he goes on with life he contemplates of how his rap days are over but in time he comes to realize that he himself will still be surrounded with the cool beat sound of one rapper explaining his everyday hard life. James first time hearing hip-hop was at a party, and it escalated when one of James friend slapped a big guy who crashed the party followed by two other friends and what was strange was these guys differed
Rap is an American music style that happened in the 1970’s, and over the year the style of rap changes. Music has the power to shape change people’s mind. Over time music has changed and it still does every day. Throughout history it has been strongly noticed that this favored type entertainment has changed with the passing times. The development of music is freedom of showing emotions.
A lot of people refer to rapping. Hip-hop properly breaks down the practice of the entire subculture (Toop). Keith Cowboy, rapper with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five created the term “Hip-Hop”. He and his fellow rappers Lovebug Starski and DJ Hollywood used the term while it was still called disco rap. People believed Cowboy created the term while ceasing a friend who had joined the U.S Army he mimicked the cadence done by mocking soldiers.
Royalty cant buy you loyalty, tell me if I lose everything would you be over me? Hip-Hop, according to Dictionary.com is defined “The popular subculture of big-city teenagers, which includes rap music, break dancing and graffity art. Kodak Black, Kevin Gates and Lil Uzi Vert greatly contributes to this genre. Kodak Black greatly contributes to Hip-Hop. According to Wikipedia.org, Kodak Black’s music is frequently about “previous and future criminal misdeeds”, and he stated that he’s been influenced by rapper Boosie Badazz and Chief Keef.
Hip hop has become popular, not just in America, but worldwide. Hip hop has expanded itself into music, fashion, advertisement and movies. It’s given many rappers, and those associated with the genre, the chance to branch themselves out into other ventures and create their own brands. Also, it has allowed them to bring hip hop to other communities through organizations and fundraisers as well. Hip-hop has gone through many changes that some people do not agree or identify with.
By doing so, the paper attempts achieve three goals: arguing the importance of taking an account of personal story to study the culture, introducing deep thinking of a unique culture that began in NY to justify why it is important to look at this culture from beyond what the public views outside the Hip Hop communities, and discussing the different views among practitioners and scholars of accounts on the culture. There
People were experimenting with vocals creating characteristic "talking-singing" " called rap, pre-recorded tapes on beats usually in 4/4 time signature. DJing, unique stage presence like breakdance was a big factor in hip-hop culture. At the beginning of creating the genre, lyrics was focused on topics such as: racial inequality, government issues, economy, hardships in life. Today, especially in America, topics are more about making money, sex, drugs
"Most people think its sex, money, and drugs but Hip-Hop is about lyrics, storytelling, and everybody having a different style. That's just another idea of beautiful, being yourself and creating music that represents you and what you like." -Rapsody. Hip-Hop started to be considered a culture down in 1973. Since then, general opinion hasn't changed much.
Ever wanted to listen to something upbeat and hardcore? Then hip-hop is your choice. This genre of music avails you to bring out that aggressive side, without actually being so. There 're various artists that paved the way, not only in the hip-hop world, outside of it also. The most prominent rap entertainer of all time is none other than Jay-
By watching the movie you get to be in the main character’s shoes (50 cent) and go through the pain, anger, loneliness and all the other emotions he felt on his mission to becoming a millionaire. That being said, let me tell you about one of my favorite movies. Marcus, the main character, lost his mother when he was a little kid due to a drug deal gone bad. This left Marcus to turn to gangs because his mom is all he had and that was taken away from him. Not being able to buy his own things he starts selling drugs.
Rap is style that incorporates rhythmic and rhyming speech that became the movement’s biggest influence . Even though hip-hop is quite similar to rap and is usually seen as the same thing, hip-hop is made up of four elements: deejaying (‘turntabling’) – a DJ is someone who plays a mix of ready recorded music either on its own or in the background of the singer/rapper, rapping (‘MCing’), graffiti painting (‘writing’) and B-boying (a type of dance that incorporates hip-hop style and attitude . B-boying is another term for breakdancing, a dance that requires the dancer to pay attention to the rhythm, using a lot of footwork. It also uses acrobatic and, occasionally, airborne moves, with head spins and back spins. Hip-hop lyrics mainly include a style of allusion , which is an indirect or passing reference to something , and a sense of opportunity and freedom.