Hip Hop Artists
B-boy
In the early 1970s the craze of B-Boying started during block parties. This involved dancing in front of the crowd to hip hop music in a distinctive style. The term B-boy was coined by DJ Kool Herc due to the dancer waiting for the break section of the hip hop song. It doesn’t always have [...]
The Hip Hop Crew at School
I am sure you must remember them or maybe you were even in the ‘hip hop crew’ at school. I remember my school’s crew. There were about twelve of them although they rarely turned up consistently. I think they took it in turns to attend school. They would always stand in a particular corner of [...]
Hip Hop Artists
The music genre of hip hop developed as part of the culture hip hop. It has four key stylistic elements rapping, sampling, beatboxing and Djing. It all began in the 1970’s in South Bronx of New York City. Here are just three artists of the very popular music genre Hip Hop. 2pac 2pac’s real name [...]
Hip Hop Music
Definition and description of Hip Hop music
Hip-Hop is a cultural movement and musical genre which started in 1970s. It began with a group of urban African-American young people living in the poorest borough of New York City ‘The Bronx’. It was a time when block parties were becoming popular. A Jamaican immigrant DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell) was one of the [...]
Hip Hop books and Web Pages
These are a few recommendations if you would like to find out more about the origins of hip hop music and the history of hip hop: Alvarez, Gabriel (1999) Chariman Mao, Sacha Jenkins, Brent Rollins and Elliott Wilson, Ego Trip’s Book of Rap Lists St. Martin’s Griffin. Austin, Joe (2001) Taking the Train: How Graffiti [...]
The link between graffiti and Hip Hop
Graffiti culture resonates at the roots of hip hop. The link between hip hop culture and graffiti occurs as early graffiti artists practised other aspects of hip hop and also because graffiti was practised in places where hip hop was evolving as an art form. A well-known graffiti artist HAZE created album covers for the [...]
History of Hip Hop
Facts about Hip Hop Music and Culture
1) Although the origins of hip hop date to the 1980s it was in 1925 Louis Armstrong was to record ‘Heebie Jeebies’. Scatting was created as some rhythmic nonsense syllables were used instead of lyrics. Scatting is the ancestor of human beat boxing. 2) The first DJ battle was between Afrika Bambaataa and Disco King Mario in [...]
History of Hip Hop music
Hip hop music can be split into two eras: the ‘old school’ era (1970-1985) and the ‘golden age’ era (1985-1993). In the old school era (often spelled ‘old skool’) popular artists included Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Fat Boys and Kool Herc. This old school era was characterised by its relatively simple rapping techniques. Battle rap [...]
Rap Music
Rap music stemmed from Hip Hop culture.
From its origin with African American and Puerto Rican influences hip hop has now gained popularity all over the world both musically and as a culture. 75% of the rap and hip hop audience is non-black. Hip Hop has made the transition from the backstreets to media corporations and advertising campaigns such as McDonalds, Coca [...]