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 to be a dancer, b-boy can also refer to someone who has a ready to break attitude!
B-boy is the original name but media attention changed it to break dancing to give it a more professional name. It is widely used and referenced in advertising, documentary, news as representative of youth culture and hip hop music. You can describe b-boy as the kinetic part to the sound of rap music and the visuals of graffiti art. [Read more...]
The Hip Hop Crew at School
February 8, 2011 By
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 the canteen and music would be siphoned from their massive headphones (these looked so uncomfortable and I could imagine the marks left when they removed them from their necks at night) into the dining area. We had no choice! As compliant students we had to listen to the loud, powerful, eclectic sampling beats of Snoop Doggy Dog as he was known in those days or Wu-Tang Clan and eat our fish fingers while also digesting the thunderous bass beats. [Read more...]
Hip Hop Artists
January 13, 2011 By
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 was Tupac Amaru Shakur and was also known as Makaveli, he was born on June 16, 1971 and died on September 13 1996. [Read more...]