Hip Hop Music on the Whole
Author: Luke Thomsen
Hip Hop music has become an identity, a character, and a new world
on its own.
It may be now a craze but it can be originally traced back to
South Bronx in the 1970s.
This style of music is a worldwide genre...
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Hip Hop Music on the Whole
Author: Luke Thomsen
Hip Hop music has become an identity, a character, and a new world
on its own.
It may be now a craze but it can be originally traced back to
South Bronx in the 1970s.
This style of music is a worldwide genre now,
but this culture developed amongst the African Americans and it was
their way of life.
No wonder, we hear about violence, crime, gangsters,
mafia, drugs, guns, women, money, cars and such, all the time.
Hip hop has a history of DJ battles, graffiti, disco
rap music and the new emerging techniques like
Jamaican toasting, scratching, MCing and Old
School Hiphoppers like DJ Kool Herc, who is known
as the Founding Father of Hip-hop, Afrika
Bambaata, Grandmaster Theodore, Grandmaster
Flash and the Furious Five, Lovebug Starski who
coined the term ‘Hip Hop’, The Cold Crush brothers and many other
legends.
The advent of New School Hip hop was around mid 1980s with hip-hop
collective like Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, Eric
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