MCing or emceeing‚ is a vocal style in which the artist speaks lyrically‚ in rhyme and verse‚ generally to an instrumental or synthesized beat. Beats‚ almost always in 4/4 time signature‚ can be created by looping portions of other songs‚ usually by a DJ‚ or sampled from portions of other songs by a producer. Modern beats incorporate synthesizers‚ drum machines‚ and live bands. Rappers may write‚ memorize‚ or improvise their lyrics and perform their works a cappella or to a beat. The roots of hip
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hip hop culture‚ New York DJ (disc-jockey) Kool Herc is generally considered the most important figure in the early years of the genre. As a DJ Kool Herc would sample the danceable parts of jazz and funk records‚ typically the parts featuring drums and a consistent rhythm. These parts were inspired by and helped inspire a new kind of dancing called break-dancing. Kool Herc named the people who would break dance to his music "B-Boys‚" which was short for break-boys. Kool Herc also spoke and rhymed over
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South Bronx from Jamaica‚ he was then nick-named Kool Herc. He is considered to be one of the founders of hip-hop. Kool Herc later became known as "DJ". In Jamaica‚ the DJ was a "master" of the music system‚ which evolved around the lives of youth. He arranged parties and other get togethers for people of the rap society. Soon he became known as MC ( "master of ceremony")‚ he then gathered music plates and played and announced them. And when a DJ‚ besides making music‚ announced some rythmic text
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DJ Kool Herc moved to the United States from Kingston‚ Jamaica and settled in the West Bronx of New York. He attempted to incorporate his disc jockeying style that he used in Jamaica‚ which involved reciting improvised rhymes over reggae record. The downfall in his attempt was that the area of New York was disinterested in reggae during the time. This fueled DJ Kool Herc into finding another appealing sound in order to please his audiences. Kool Herc’s creative new style
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Do you know why “New School” become so popular in the late 1980s? Hip-hop starts at the 1970s‚ the beginning of hip-hop is starting by DJ Kool Herc. All of the early artists of hip-hop‚ deejays or MCs‚ were named ’Old School’. ’New School’ was a given name to separate the different style of hip-hop depends on when does it born and what was added. New school rap came out and became popular because the new technology of drum machine came out‚ the new generation of musicians‚ and a new type of image
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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
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parties of The Ghetto Brothers when they would plug the amps for their instruments and speakers into the lampposts on 163rd Street and Prospect Avenue and DJ Kool Herc at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue‚ where Herc Herc would mix samples of existing records with his own shouts to the crowd and dancers. Kool Herc is credited as the "father" of Hip hop. DJ Afrika Bambaataa of the hip hop collective Zulu Nation outlined the pillars of hip hop culture‚ to which he coined the terms: MCing‚ DJing‚ B-boying and graffiti
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transformed into something much larger than anyone could have ever imagined Despite what the media or rumors state‚ hip-hop originated in the poverty-ridden streets of Bronx New York by an individual by the name of Clive Campbell also known as Dj Kool Herc. The actual father of hip-hop is a controversial topic because hip-hop was born in the streets‚ making it almost impossible to know exactly who to give all the credit.
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Afrika Bambaataa‚ Fab 5 Freddy‚ Frosty Freeze‚ Kool Herc‚ and numerous other relevant hip-hop connoisseurs explore the culture of hip-hop‚ specifically by breaking down how B-Boys and B-Girls pioneered and shaped the hip-hop culture known today. While this documentary‚ interview-styled film had limited information to share about other aspects of hip-hop‚ it gave a wide variety of facts and details of B-Boying‚ or ‘break-dancing’‚ which is considered to be one of the key elements. Overall‚ this film
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More than a hundred years before the Hip Hop music raised in the USA‚ in Africa there were people that told stories rhyming only with the rhythm of drums‚ this kind of music indeed arrived to the new continent and it mixed with other rhythms; that was how the Hip Hop or Rap was born. For instance‚ the first Rap song was “Rapper’s Delight” by the Sugarhill Gang‚ hearing this music is like hearing rhymes over a disco song notably being inspired in the hits from the beginning of the 80s. They were the
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