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Hip Hop's History and Impact on Society
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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.
2
Ibid, 67
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