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WHAT IS HIP HOP
• Definition:
1: a subculture especially of inner-city youths who are typically devotees of rap
music
2: the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also : rap
together with this music
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• Its main components are rap (MC'ing), break-dance, graffiti, street
types of sports games.
• Hip-Hop is more than just a genre of music but it is more a way of life
than anything. A lot of people in this arena will tell you they don’t
just talk it but they live it, breathe it, eat it, and wear it. It does not
just encompass ones looks but thoughts and actions also. It is a mind
set…it is a WAY OF LIFE.
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History of Hip Hop
• Birthing of Hip-Hop
On August 11, 1973 DJ Kool Herc, a building resident, was
entertaining at his sister’s back-to-school party, and tried something
new on the turntable: he extended an instrumental beat (breaking or
scratching) to let people dance longer (break dancing) and began
MC’ing (rapping) during the extended breakdancing.
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• The contribution made by DJ Kool
Herc, marked not only the birth of
hip hop, but the beginning of a new
way of life. The music led to an
entire cultural movement that’s
altered generational thinking – from
politics and race to art and
language.
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• Hip hop signaled a profound shift at the beginning of the 1970s,
following the FBI’s suppression of late ‘60s radical black groups and
the waning of gang wars. Rather than taking political action, a new
generation expressed itself through DJing, MCing, b-boying/b-girling
(breakdancing), and graffiti, the ‘four elements’ of hip hop. Artist Fab
5 Freddy, who coined this term, argued that the looping interactivity
of the ‘four elements’ proved hip hop went beyond a purely musical
or artistic movement – it was an entire culture.
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• 1980’s-mid 1990’s
The golden age is noted for its innovation, it was a time "when it
seemed that every new single reinvented the genre" according to Rolling
Stone. Referring to "hip-hop in its golden age“, Spin's editor-in-chief Sia
Michel says, "there were so many important, groundbreaking albums coming
out right about that time", and MTV's Sway Calloway adds: "The thing that
made that era so great is that nothing was contrived. Everything was still
being discovered and everything was still innovative and new". Writer
William Jelani Cobb says "what made the era they inaugurated worthy of the
term golden was the sheer number of stylistic innovations that came into
existence... in these golden years, a critical mass of mic prodigies were
literally creating themselves and their art form at the same time".
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Eminem
Born on October 17, 1972, in St. Joseph,
Missouri, rap musician Eminem had a
turbulent childhood. He released The
Slim Shady LP in early 1999, and the
album went multi-platinum, garnering
Eminem two Grammy Awards and four
MTV Video Music Awards. In 2000, the
rapper released The Marshall Mathers LP,
which was noted as the fastest-selling
album in rap history. More recently, in
2010, Eminem released the Grammywinning album Recovery, a highly
autobiographical attempt to come to
terms with his struggles with addiction
and experience with rehabilitation.
Eminem plans to release his eighth
album, MMLP2, in 2013.
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Dr. Dre
• Gangsta rap pioneer Dr. Dre was born
on February 18, 1965. A music fan
from the start, Dre started working as
a DJ in his teens. His first major
success came with the rap group
N.W.A. and he later co-founded Death
Row Records in 1991. In 1992, his first
solo album The Chronic became a
huge hit. Dre started up Aftermath
Entertainment in 1996 and signed
Eminem and 50 Cent to his label. He
eventually co-founded the company
Beats Electronics with Jimmy Iovine.
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Flavor Flav
Born William Jonathan Drayton Jr. in
Roosevelt, Long Island, New York, on
March 16, 1959, Flavor Flav is an
American hip-hop artist known for
his work with Public Enemy—also
including Chuck D, Norman Rogers
(Terminator X) and Richard Griffin
(Professor Griff)—and for his work
on several reality-television series,
including The Surreal Life, Strange
Love and Flavor of Love, airing on
VH1.
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Tupac Shakur
Born in New York City in 1971,
Tupac Shakur, known by his stage
name 2Pac, was an American
rapper. Shakur has sold more than
75 million albums worldwide,
making him one of the best-selling
music artists in the world. Most of
Tupac's songs are about growing
up amid violence and hardship in
ghettos, racism, other social
problems and conflicts with other
rappers during the East CoastWest Coast hip hop rivalry. Shakur
was shot and killed in Las Vegas,
Nevada, in 1996.
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Sean Puffy Combs (P Diddy)
Born in Harlem, New York, on
November 4, 1969, Sean Combs
launched his music production
company, Bad Boy Entertainment,
in 1993, and worked with artists
like Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige
and Biggie Smalls. After Biggie was
murdered in 1997, Combs
recorded the tribute "I'll be
Missing You," which topped the
Billboard singles chart for eleven
weeks and launched Combs's first
album, No Way Out (1997) to
platinum status.
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Lil Wayne
• Born on September 27, 1982, in New
Orleans, Louisiana, Lil Wayne worked
with hip-hop group the Hot Boys
before forging a solo career with
albums Tha Carter and its hit follow
ups II, III and IV. He won four Grammy
Awards in 2009 for singles like "A
Milli" and "Lollipop," and has worked
with artists ranging from Robin Thicke
to Nicki Minaj. He was jailed in 2010
for weapon's possession.
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Hip Hop Dance
• The history of hip-hop dance encompasses the people and events
since the late 1960s that have contributed to the development of the
early hip-hop dance styles: uprock, breaking, locking, roboting,
boogaloo, and popping. Black and Latino Americans created uprock
and breaking in New York City. Black Americans in California created
locking, roboting, boogaloo, and popping—collectively referred to as
the funk styles. All of these dance styles are different stylistically. They
share common ground in their street origins and in their
improvisational nature.
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• More than 40 years old, hip-hop dance became widely known after
the first professional street-based dance crews formed in the 1970s in
the United States. The most influential groups were Rock Steady
Crew, The Lockers, and The Electric Boogaloos who are responsible for
the spread of breaking, locking, and popping respectively. The
Brooklyn-based dance style uprock influenced breaking early in its
development. Boogaloo gained more exposure because it is the
namesake of the Electric Boogaloos crew. Uprock, roboting, and
boogaloo are respected dance styles but none of them are as
mainstream or popular as breaking, locking, and popping.
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• Parallel with the evolution of hip-hop music, hip-hop social dancing
emerged from breaking and the funk styles into different forms.
Dances from the 1990s such as the Running Man, the Worm, and the
Cabbage Patch entered the mainstream and became fad dances. After
the millennium, newer social dances such as the Cha Cha Slide and
the Dougie also caught on and became very popular.
• Hip-hop dance is not a studio-derived style. Street dancers developed
it in urban neighborhoods without a formal process. All of the early
substyles and social dances were brought about through a
combination of events including inspiration from James Brown, DJ
Kool Herc's invention of the break beat, the formation of dance
crews, and Don Cornelius' creation of the television show Soul Train.
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