Fagbenle, Ayodeji
HHSI Spring 16’
1)The Possible ways to describe Hip Pop are DJing, MCing, breaking, and graffiti.
2)Hip pop has been commercialized by outside forces through instructional Hip pop themed DVD’s like
“Hip-Pop Ship, that promotes Britney spears and Justin Timberlake as dance heroes of hip pop culture
3)There is certainly a distinction between Hip pop and Rap. Hip Pop, b-boy/b-girl-
Break

1)Prior to the world war ll, the ethnic groups that dominated the South Bronx neighborhood were
African Americans, west Indians and Hispanics.
2)The city’s slum clearance projects displaced poor Puerto Rican families from the upper West
Side to the south Bronx .
3) It is important to make a distinction between youth gangs and youth clubs. Youth gangs tend to be associated with violence and power while youth clubs tend to be associated with the encouragement and positive construction of local communities. Some other ways to identify an organized group of young people are group is to call them organizations or bands.
4)As membership of gangs began to wane, former gang members started to form B-boy teams that battled each other based off their dance skills rather than physical violence. Many of these battles would happen