Stylistically, hip-hop music is made up of rapping lyrics over instrumentals typically containing kick drums, snares, and hi-hats in addition to some sort of melodious instrumentation. Lyrics rhyme, and common themes in hip-hop are life in the ghetto, including drugs and violence. However, rap lyrics can range over a variety of topics. There is concious rap, political rap, comedy rap, trap music, pop rap,…
Hip-Hop is an offshoot of Bebop. Bebop was a rebellious genre of music that fought racism and brought down racial barriers. Similar to bebop, hip-hop is also a rebellious genre of music that has fought racism in an aggressively expressive manner. Both hip-hop and bebop were popular among multiple cultures. Bebop was not danceable and demanded close listening, it was not intended for dancing, and it enabled the musicians to play at faster tempos, just as in hip-hop.…
Rap and hip hop, although both genres originate from the same city and time, are very different due to their style and theme. These two genres have strikingly similar origins. Hip hop and rap both originated in the Bronx’s. They also surfaced around the same time, with Rap forming in the early 1979…
Hip-hop is a genre of music associated with rap and others that conveys more a serious or upbeat tone about real life situations or personas. Hip-hop shows portray feeling and emotions towards a way of life or people and can be taken just as a song to dance to while also another person has taken it as a certain message to them or their feelings and beliefs. Myself, I grew up listening to Biggie Smalls, Tupac, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre in the back of my dad's car. But as just a child I didn't think much of it but as bad words, I wasn't allowed to say out loud or I would be in a world of trouble, which in all honestly I was constantly. But as I grew up and matured more I was able to understand the songs more…
Teens in the Bronx needed a way to express themselves and invented a new way to do it. Hip-Hop music is a great medium to express yourself in a fun way. There was a wreckless genre of music that was growing in the Bronx, now it is one of the most changed and defined genre in the world. Teens in the Bronx wanted a way to show they felt. So they took elements from other genres of music and made something new.…
I started listening to hip-hop when I was transitioning into the 6th grade. It is a form of music, defined as stylized rhythmic music commonly accompanied by rap (merriam-webster). Hip hop involves rhyming of words and phrases into a verse. Verses are usually followed by a hook or chorus, like in most music genres. It is one of the top genres of music listened to among the youths of the U.S. I may listen to hip-hop, but I’m fairly new to rappers that have introduced themselves into the rap game over the recent years.…
Hip Hop started out in the 1970’s as a form of “cultural movement” for African-Americans in New York City. “Hip Hop consists of a stylized…
One way hip hop evolved is the diversity of the styles. At the beginning hip hop in the 1970’s was mostly composed of DJs that mix songs and samples together to make a new music. DJs such as DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Caz and Afrika Bambaataa, were big artist during the 1970’s era. “ They began to develop in the South Bronx area of New york city focusing on emceeing and breakbeats (A sample of a syncopated drum beat, that is repeated to form a rhythm)...DJ Kool Herc Known as the father of hip hop. Developed upon breakbeat deejaying where the breaks of funk songs—the part most suited to dance, usually percussion-based—were isolated and repeated for the purpose of all-night dance parties.…
This paper will discuss how hip-hop has managed to grow from being a subculture in the South Bronx, to being common in almost every country around the world. Hip hop is usually seen as a genre of music instead of a culture. The culture that is hip hop is made up of the four components: DJing,…
Music genre is many different type of music and each of music has different meaning. There are many type of music consist in the genre, Hip-hop music is classified in one of the category of music. Hip hop it self, has a meaning, which is combine between “Hip” and ”hop” or the combination between knowledge or intelligent and the action or relevant movement, and going through the music and become hip-hop music style. According to Laurence Krisna Parker: “Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live-”. Hip-hop is not about rapper and something you do, but hip-hop is something you live.…
Hip-Hop can be viewed as a cultural movement. Some of the ways that hip-hop can be described as a movement is through the lyrics that inspire the long time struggles of racial oppression. This movement is a powerful art form that helps the listener better understand what it is hip-hop as a group is fighting for. The hip-hop movement is very influential in bringing awareness to particular issues. Whether or not Hip-hop uses this movement as a platform is not guaranteed.…
The Golden age of Hip Hop began on August 11,1973 and was generally the first in New York South Bronx. It started in a party where Dj Kool Herc used his turntables and got the people to party. Dj Kool Herc knew that to have a party going the mic was important because thats what got the people pumped. So young African Americans started to rap. SInce that day ,it was embraced by young African American men who invented new music using turntables to epress themselves and express their culture.…
As a form of contemporary music, hip-hop thrived in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Listeners were attracted by the funky beats and different was of performing lyrics and rhymes. Today, these types of music still remain…
When hip-hop became popular, a new type of art started to appear on walls, buildings, trains,cars, and anything that could be written on this new type of art appeared. The first graffiti tag was by a high school student in Philadelphia to get the attention of a girl. Then graffiti began to get popular in the 1960’s. When graffiti got its beginning in hip hop, the graffiti associated with hip-hop most likely got started sometime in the mid-to-late 1960s. The exact beginnings can't be pinned down, but most discussions point to one article that brought graffiti into the spotlight -- "'Taki 183' Spawns Pen Pals," published in the New York Times on July 21, 1971.…
Hip Hop can be used as an instrument to motivate us to seek positivity or to reach a desired goal. This genre of music does not encourage violence and has influenced a positive cultural aspect in people.…