The genre I chose to do for this essay is Hip Hop. I chose to do my essay about Hip Hop because it's one of my favorite genres, it's very diverse and has so many things you can do with it.
Nobody knows exactly when hip hop started but I think hip hop was on the verge of being discovered long before anyone even realized. In 1962 when James brown played live on TV on a show called live at the Apollo and he introduced a new beat called break beat. This is one of the most essential inventions for hip hop. More than ten years later a man called Clive Campbell aka cool herk threw one of the first ever hip-hop parties. what Clive would do was buy two copies of the same record put them on two turn tables and he would use the instrumental break beat from the record (the part that I mentioned before) and he would stretch it. He would play the break beat on one record (usually jazz, r and b or disco records) for however long then when it's about to finish he would start to play the instrumental on the other record all on
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It was like this from the start til the eighties because in the eighties people started to find different ways to sample, with tapes and lots of other creative ways. Lots of people started to realize you could make tunes without hiring a studio you could do it from your very own home, you could also use drum machines and synthesizers to make music. During the nineties making hip hop beats changed drastically during the nineties because technology advanced and you could make songs on a computer and this just opened a whole new world there were endless possibilities. Nowadays the possibilities are even more endless nowadays it feels like everyone is making a good standard of music from their bedroom and it's