Hip Hop Subculture

Since the simple rap parties in the late 1970’s by hip-hop’s first DJ, DJ Kool Herc. The outbreak of hip hop has taken today’s generation by a storm. Rap music began among the youth of South Bronx, New York in the mid 1970’s, key individuals such as DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash were main editions to the birth of hip hop. Performances at night clubs and promotion of the rap music made rap quickly gain popularity through the end of the 1970’s. Later being picked up and altered by today’s MC’s connecting the music to sex, money, drugs, and even fashion.
Hip hop was a cultural movement that helped rappers describe how they felt. The musical style added a rhythmic speech becoming music’s long lasting influential art form. The first major hip
Weeks within its release the song became a chart topping success, debuting at number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on January 12, 1980. (Billboard, 2017). In the mid-1980 a new wave of rappers also known as the “New School” came into play. At the top was Run-D.M.C a trio who combined rap with hard rock, designed a new style of hip dress, and became rap icons on MTV as they brought rap to a mainstream audience. Run-D.M.C began recording with Profile Records, one of the many labels that took control of the growing market of rap music. Run-D.M.C gave rap music a sense of uniqueness with the fashionable style they added which included: Large glasses, Kangol hats, designer tracksuits, multi fingered rings, and etc. This became a pathway to where people could make rap music not only just music but for fashion as
The music has both been portrayed as both positive and negative influence on the younger generation. The glorification of drug dealing, pimping, and smoking was common in hip hop, the fact is without the attributes the music will not sell therefore rappers won’t make money. Some students have been kicked out of school for following the trend that hip-hop has set to be portrayed as. But hip-hop isn’t all bad it’s only certain types that makes people want to behave and act in an illegal way. Hip-hop has been a main way rappers could get their message across to the younger generation about the social and economic problems going on in their communities and around the world. The hip-hop helped young African Americans who wanted to stop gang wars and was viewed hip-hop has their sense of freedom and culture. Hip-hop is in the need of a reality check, the influence it has in the music and fashion industry is great should be used for a better purpose to help guide the lives of younger kids other than corrupting their