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Social And Cultural Contexts In Hip Hop

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Intro and Overview
The genre I have chosen for my final production project is Hip Hop, so I will be basing this essay on the social and cultural contexts that this genre currently exists in at a national and international level.
I have chosen Hip Hop as my production genre as it is a genre I am super passionate about and a lot of the work comes from the enjoyment of making and producing Hip Hop music.

Social and Cultural Significance
Hip Hop is said to have been truly born around the early 70’s, when a Jamaican born “Turntablist” Kool DJ Herc used an innovative turntable technique at a party that was thrown by his younger sister. This technique involved is executed by playing the break portion of two identical records consecutively by crossfading
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