Since the inception of Hip-Hop in the early 1970’s a movement of began in the streets of the Bronx. Hip-Hop culture is composed of 4 pillars which are Graffiti (street art), Bboying (breakdancing), Djing (turntablism), and Mcing (rapping). Since this time it has expanded to include subcultures like as Hip-Hop fashion, and street entrepreneurship. Throughout its history other pillars have emerged, but Mcing (rapping) has always been at the fore front of the culture. Mcing is the rhythmic spoken word of sampled beats and breaks of old Jazz, Soul, and R&B records. According to Krs-one who is one of the genre’s most out spoken ambassadors of the cultures States “Hip-Hop is something you live, Rap is something you do”. Mcing became a way for young kids in the inner city of New York to talk about their experiences and what was going in their community, and emerged as spokes persons for life in the “Ghettos of America. …show more content…
These two songs represented two sides of the culture of Mcing, Conscious Rap Vs Commercial Rap. Shortly after these two records became popularized, and as the Art of Rap grew in its popularity, and spread across America, it open the doors for big business to come in and capitalize of this new phenomenon. From this point different styles of rap music emerged and we began to see a split in the content that was marketed and commercially viable and being marketed, to youth across the nation, and eventually across the