Hip Hop's history and impact on society for a Black History Month

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Self-awareness through learning and knowledge often is defined as the Fifth Element of Hip Hop. Some Hip Hop advocates, particularly Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa, call the Fifth Element the most important element because it unites and brings together the entire genre. However, because this element is not easily performed, it often is hard to understand. Throughout this semester, you have studied a broad range of work on Hip Hop, including its historical and philosophical roots, its economic power, its political potential, and its communitybuilding practices. The Fifth Element has been a part of all of these aspects of Hip Hop. For this paper, I would like you to draw on the research you have done on Hip Hop all semester to probe what the Fifth Element means. Here's what I would like you to do: Imagine that you have been asked to submit a paper on Hip Hop's history and impact on society for a Black History Month (which is February) or a Hip Hop History Month (which is November) event. Prepare this lecture in a written format (1,000 to 1,500 words). In doing so, please: • • Distinguish what you feel is important for an audience to know about what the Fifth Element of Hip Hop is; how Hip Hop interconnects with the history, politics, economics, and social conditions of the latter twentieth and early twenty-first centuries; and how Hip Hop narrates America's history and its relationship globally. Reflect on how your study of Hip Hop has transformed you and your own interpretation of society. Assignment Instructions To prepare this assignment, it might help for you to imagine yourself in the role of an emcee who is hosting a major community-wide Hip Hop event. Please, however, write your paper for an academic audience that is not intimately familiar with Hip Hop. Communicate your ideas in clear, straightforward language that is appropriate for an advanced college-level Historical Studies and/or Cultural Studies course. Integrate at least five reference sources from the course as well as additional research. Please cite these sources appropriately. If you quote colloquial expressions, please make sure to explain what the colloquialisms are meant to convey. Writing in this manner will allow you to communicate your ideas in a way that both followers and non-followers of Hip Hop can understand and appreciate. KRS-One, the Teacha, has given many such lectures on The Fifth Element of Hip Hop. You can find them on YouTube or through such sources as Netflix. Please use the Chicago Style for citations, and take care to ensure that the citations are completed properly.
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Hip Hop's History and Impact on Society
Introduction
Hip hop began as an underground urban movement in the 1970s where it began to
develop in the South Bronx in the city of New York. Its focus was more on emceeing over
breakfast house parties and neighborhood block party event. The events were mostly held
outdoors. It is a type of music in the music genre that was formed in the United States and was
also called the rap music. It consisted of a stylized rhythmic music that is known to commonly
involve or accompany rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is intoned. It was birthed in
1520 Sedgwick Avenue as its delivery location.1 It was on August 11, 1973, when DJ Kool Herc
was the DJ in charge at his sister's back to school party event. With Ney York as the foundation
of hip hop, that is, among the Latino and black ghetto, its principal components were rap, hip
hop dance, and Graffiti. One of the founders of hip hop was known as Clive Campbell from
Jamaica who came in the year 1967 to South Bronx.
Certainly enough, hip hop was developed by the African Americans and Latinos from the
Bronx in New York as mentioned as a subculture and an art movement. Hip hop is only one
element-leave alone the way people characterize it from four to nine elements said to be distinct
or expressive realms.2 With the inspiration of DJ Kool Herc, DJ Afrika Bambaata the Zulu
nation collective hip-hop made an outline of the hip hop culture, coined the terms like rapping
which was also called emceeing, a rhythmic vocal with a rhyming style also known as turntablist
which meant making music with the record players and the DJ mixers. There was also graffiti,
1

Nelson, George, Hip Hop America, (New York: Penguin, 2005), 45.

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Ibid, 67

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