Hip Hop Culture

All individuals are different and have different ways of connecting. The power of music can connect people. Individuals express themselves in different ways. Music is used to express life experiences and other things. Many use the art of hip-hop to express themselves. Hip-hop is a form of art which can be expressed through a history rap songs, breakdancing, and graffiti art. Hip-hop culture has evolved and is a large part of today’s generation. It has breached out and has an influence all over the globe.
The culture of hip-hop has impact and influence on millions of people. It is this way because not only is a genre of music, but a way of life. It is a style, a way to express, and a way to carry themselves. With the many positives of hip-hop culture there is always ones seeking to present the culture as a negative. The media is one of those seekers who try to darken the image of hip-hop culture. Not at all media do this but there is some who do. The media uses multiple things, such as stereotypes, to create a negative presentation of hip-hop culture.
There is history of this and will continue as long as evolving culture of hip-hop is alive.
Hip-hop is a culture which is constantly changing and evolving. Overtime the culture started from streets of New York, then across the United States, and reached global. The new generation of hip-hop has a different creative style from the older generations of hip-hop and that will continue to change. With these changes there will always be the history of the culture, dating back to the 1970s in New York. The East Coast vs West Coast hip-hop culture will always be relevant with the history.
The common knowledge of the cultural emergence of hip-hop was in the mid to late 1970s in the streets of New York, especially the neglected black and latino neighborhoods in the Bronx (Codrington).
1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx New York is the birthplace of hip-hop. On August 11, 1973 a sister of DJ Kool Herc was hosting a back to school party. Herc was entertaining the party and he decided to try something new. He extended an instrumental beat to let people dance longer and began MC’ing during the extended breakdancing (Zuberi). The extension of the instrumental beat was the start of scratching. Scratching is the moving of a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable to create rhythmic sounds and and sound effects. The extension of letting people dance longer is break dancing and the “MC’ing” is the origin of rap. An important part of African American culture in both the public and private realms is rhymed
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Hip-hop culture has been influenced by several genres. The black church is an influence on the culture. The connection and engagement the preachers made with the audience is vital. The preacher calls out a sentence or phrase to which the congregation responds, creating the interaction with the people. Hip-hop culture uses this style to interact with the listeners. Another influence on hip-hop culture is oral competitions, which grew to the name of rap battling. These oral competitions is the interaction of people using comedic insults and punchlines to silence their opponent. Rap battling grew attention and increased the notice of Hip-ho