Hip Hop
BRINGING HIP HOP BACK TO THE 70’s You’re standing amongst a crowd in a circle, side by side, next to people you don’t know. Crowds going wild in New York, South Bronx and your bumping to the music, with an extensive amount of energy that you're allowing yourself to give to this one individual in the center whose dancing, break-dancing. The boy is called a b-boy and few people know this but that it what started this fascinating music called early Hip-hop. During the 1970’s, Hip hop was starting to blossom and changing society. The Hip-hop culture began in the streets of New York City and consisted of four elements: graffiti, breakdancing, deejaying,also known as “MCing” or “rhyming”, and rapping. Being given the 4 major elements of Hip-Hop,
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An expression that used spray paint as a tool to draw or write on subway walls, trains, bricks, doors, etc. The police called it vandalism but the people called it art. This idea of graffiti was a very controversial topic that emerged from Hip-hop. It affected many people, both those who actually performed it and those who were against it. For those who did graffiti, for them it meant just writing or drawing on a public space or place. For those who opposed it saw it as damage to their property and so this negatively affected the society and politics. Graffiti is definitely an inter linking factor to hip-hop. It is seen as an artistic form of speaking out towards authority, as well as communication and expression. Since 1969, graffiti became a way of life with its own code of behavior, secret gathering places, slang etc (Kaminski). There was also a practice within graffiti known as “tagging” which was basically like a nickname you gave yourself that you would tag onto the wall with the spray can for the whole world to see. Graffiti negatively affected the society but also involved politics when speaking of police. Politics had to either decide whether it should be illegal or legal for graffiti to
An expression that used spray paint as a tool to draw or write on subway walls, trains, bricks, doors, etc. The police called it vandalism but the people called it art. This idea of graffiti was a very controversial topic that emerged from Hip-hop. It affected many people, both those who actually performed it and those who were against it. For those who did graffiti, for them it meant just writing or drawing on a public space or place. For those who opposed it saw it as damage to their property and so this negatively affected the society and politics. Graffiti is definitely an inter linking factor to hip-hop. It is seen as an artistic form of speaking out towards authority, as well as communication and expression. Since 1969, graffiti became a way of life with its own code of behavior, secret gathering places, slang etc (Kaminski). There was also a practice within graffiti known as “tagging” which was basically like a nickname you gave yourself that you would tag onto the wall with the spray can for the whole world to see. Graffiti negatively affected the society but also involved politics when speaking of police. Politics had to either decide whether it should be illegal or legal for graffiti to