Hip Hop Influence
The Influence of Hip-Hop on Young adults Hip-hop is a new type of music that has been gradually increasing in popularity in the past three decades And like other music it can be very influential, and hip-hop has been anything but short on that. From sculpting the way modern day youth speak and introducing words that are used in everyday talk nowadays to how the youth may even dress or act. But are these influences on our youth positive or negative? There are critics that argue that people who listen to hip-hop are just juvenile teenagers, while others counter that hiphop’s pedestal is structured by its listeners, that is the youth and is a fantastic and unique way for our culture to evolve. August 11th, 1973, the birth of Hip Hop happens
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An immigrant from Jamaica who introduced the upbeat drums breaks of his home country to New York. Other Mentionable contributors to deejaying are Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Wizard Theodore, and Grandmaster Flash. Grandmaster Flash introduced new technique in deejaying called Needle Dropping, in which he would have two identical records playing but moving the needle back to the beginning of the record while the other would keep playing. Also introduced the rhythmic effect called “scratching” in which you would turn the record while the needle was still on it, causing it to cause a “scratch” Kool Herc is greatly credited for introducing speech interjections as he would DJ,but isn’t the only person who influenced it. Other influences come from West African griots (which is the way oral tradition was kept and passed down in West African culture), blued songs, jailhouse toasts ( rhyming poems of awful or good tales), the “dozens” (The act of insulting one another), black power poetry, jive and the Jamaican rhythmic speech known as toasting. In late 1970’s the rap had gained, for the first time, national popularity from a song called “Rapper's Delight” by Sugarhill Gang, on Sugar Hill, an independent African American owned label. The song reached high in the charts and had paved a path for a new genre of music. Some of the major contributors to Hip Hop would
An immigrant from Jamaica who introduced the upbeat drums breaks of his home country to New York. Other Mentionable contributors to deejaying are Afrika Bambaataa, Grand Wizard Theodore, and Grandmaster Flash. Grandmaster Flash introduced new technique in deejaying called Needle Dropping, in which he would have two identical records playing but moving the needle back to the beginning of the record while the other would keep playing. Also introduced the rhythmic effect called “scratching” in which you would turn the record while the needle was still on it, causing it to cause a “scratch” Kool Herc is greatly credited for introducing speech interjections as he would DJ,but isn’t the only person who influenced it. Other influences come from West African griots (which is the way oral tradition was kept and passed down in West African culture), blued songs, jailhouse toasts ( rhyming poems of awful or good tales), the “dozens” (The act of insulting one another), black power poetry, jive and the Jamaican rhythmic speech known as toasting. In late 1970’s the rap had gained, for the first time, national popularity from a song called “Rapper's Delight” by Sugarhill Gang, on Sugar Hill, an independent African American owned label. The song reached high in the charts and had paved a path for a new genre of music. Some of the major contributors to Hip Hop would