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    Early hip hop vs. modern hip hop The culture of hip hop‚ ever since its highest peak in the 1990s‚ or what is also known as the “Golden Era”‚ has been drained over the years. Some people might even be surprised at how Hip Hop began and what it meant in the 90s‚ and there is absolutely no denying it has evolved since its origins‚ from it starting in the Bronx‚ and going worldwide. However‚ was this transformation in hip hop for the better or for the worse? Hip Hop has unfortunately mostly become an

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    Hip Hop Degrading Society Or Enhancing It? This question has been lingering around for many years and still to this day nobody has came to a simple conclusion.Hip Hop was brought to the people by Dj Kool Herc‚ when it all started Hip Hop was a just a way to connect with the community and build unity.He didn’t start Hip Hop to start violence and make rappers disrespect woman or any other assumptions people make of Hip Hop.One cannot argue this question with just opinions‚ one must provide real facts

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    Kool DJ Herc is credited with the birth of hip-hop when he played two drum breaks consecutively. The drum breaks created a new sense and feel in music and African Americans liked the beat and flow of the music. Though hip-hop originated from other forms of

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    rhyme patterns within varying bar-length verses. It originated in Southern Bronx‚ New York City in the mid 1970’s‚ taking its influences from funk‚ groove and African soul music to create essentially a fusion of genres. It is believed that Kool Herc‚ a Jamaican DJ living in the Bronx at the time‚ was the original creator of the concept‚ employing break beat into his shows. Breakbeating involves mixing between two songs instrumentals to extend them for as long as possible‚ while performing over the

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    Artists of the Harlem Renaissance (1993)‚ Director‚ Amber Edwards gives us a rich history lesson on the Harlem Renaissance in this PBS home video. 5. Chang‚ Jeff; DJ Kool Herc (2005). Can ’t Stop Won ’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. Macmillan. ISBN 031230143X. This book discusses the origin of Hip Hop and chronicles Dj Kool Herc as the originator of Hip Hop. 6. Castillo-Garstow‚ Melissa (2008-03-01). "Latinos in hip hop to reggaeton". Latin Beat Magazine. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FXV/is_2_15/ai_n13557237

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    hours at a club or concert. DJs bring us this special urge to dance around or just bob our heads while driving to town. The roll of a DJ affects our lives more than we think. First of all‚ what is a DJ? And where exactly did they come from? The dictionary definition

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    Surname 5 Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Gang. Skeleton draft. The hip hop subculture is a way of life tethered to and popularized by the widespread practice of rap music. It originates from the African American community. It is expressed through flashy modes of dressing‚ graffiti art forms‚ break dancing‚ and slang. However‚ with the passage of time‚ the culture has traversed racial and cultural lines and has become one of the most practiced genres of music throughout the world‚ with an

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    Christian Hip-hop VS Secular Hip-hop Donald Payne COM/170 6/12/12 Faith lbarra Christian Hip-hop VS Secular Hip-hop Hip-hop is a form of popular music that’s comprised mainly of emceeing and deejaying. As hip-hop continues to evolve into a successful enterprise‚ it has emerged into trends‚ such as clothing styles‚ improper dialogue known as slang‚ and an overall general mindset. While the secular industry of hip-hop promotes sex‚ drugs‚ and violence‚ to name a few; the Christian objective

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    Hip-Hop was brought into the U.S by a gathering of Jamaican settlers in the 70’s. One of the Jamaicans‚ Clive Campbell‚ A.K.A Kool Herc started‚ making instrumentals out of two turntables. While another man from the Bronx‚ Theodore Livingstone‚ A.K.A Grand Wizard‚ incidentally found the scratching sound of the turntable. Rap was made as a between social marvel of New York’s poorer segments (Harlem‚ Soho‚ Greenwich Village‚ Bronx‚ Queens‚ and Brooklyn). Rap turned into a developed type of Jamaican

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    Hip-Hop: A New Generation Hip-hop was born out of the Bronx during the 1970s. Artists such as Grandmaster Flash‚ DJ Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaata mixed funk‚ soul and Jamaican "toasting" (chanting over music) to create a type of hip-hop. Since its early formation‚ hip-hop has become one of the world’s biggest-selling musical genres. Its influence on Western society is far reaching and hip-hop is often referred to as a "culture". Hip-Hop has had a notable influence on fashion‚ language‚ art and

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