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Growing Up Hip Hop is the original installment of the Growing Up Hip Hop reality television franchise on WE tv. The series premiered on January 7, 2016, and chronicles the lives of the children of hip hop legends. Its success has led to the creation of spin-offs Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta and Growing Up Hip Hop: New York.
Le hip-hop 1, 2 est une culture et un genre musical de musique populaire, caractérisé par un rythme accompagné par son expression musicale, le rap 2, et de l'ensemble des cultures urbaines et artistiques qui le constituent et l'entourent, né à New York dans le South Bronx à la toute fin des années 1960 et au début des années 1970.
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Beginning of French hip hop: the 70s and 80s
By 1982 and 1983, a number of hip hop radio shows had appeared on Paris radio, including "Rapper Dapper" (hosted by Sidney Duteil) and "Funk à Billy" (hosted by DJ Dee Nasty). In November 1982 the New York City Rap Tour, traveled around France and to London featuring Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmixer DST, Fab 5 Freddy, Mr Freeze and the Rock Steady Crew. The first major star of French hip hop was MC Solaar. Born Claude M'Barali in Dakar, Senegal, he moved as a child to France in 1970 and lived in...
Influence of American hip-hop
French hip-hop, like hip-hop in other countries, is highly influenced by American hip-hop. Columnist David Brooks wrote that "ghetto life, at least as portrayed in rap videos, now defines for the young, poor and disaffected what it means to be oppressed. Gangsta resistance is the most compelling model for how to rebel against that oppression." He argued that the gangster image of American hip hop appeals to mostly young & impoverished immigrant minorities in France, as a means to oppose the r...
The 1990s and 2000s
Through the 1990s, the music grew to become one of the most popular genres in France; in 1997, IAM's release "L'école du Micro d'Argent" sold more than 1 million discs, with NTM moving more than 700,000 copies of their final album "Suprême NTM". The group went their separate ways in 2000. As hip hop moved into a new millennium, French hip hop artists developed rapidly, seeing commercial success, and even some international appeal. One of the most influential French hip hop albums of all time,...
Themes in French hip hop include opposition to the social order, humor and puns, as well as ethnic and cultural identity. Whereas early French hip hop was seen as mimicking American hip hop in terms of aesthetic appeal, later French rappers added their own cultural and ethnic identities to the mix. With the rise of IAM's pharaoism, or allusions to ...
When hip-hop reached the European continent in the 1980s Afrika Bambaataa was an early pioneer, and when he came to France he was overwhelmed by the great importance of African culture coming from Africa and the Caribbean. Many French hip hop artists express strong ties to Africa, though not overtly. Rappers from the 1980s and 90s needed to keep th...
Although hip hop in France has been greatly influenced by American hip hop culture, the lyrics remain typically in French. Other than English, other language influences are based on oral traditions such as African griots, "talk over" of Jamaica and the blues. French music lyrics typically feature puns, play on words and suggestive phonetic combinat...
The image of the banlieue, comparable to what in the United States would be called one's "hood", has propagated itself into French pop culture in the form of clothing, accessories, attitude and of course the hip-hop music it yields. This fascination with the banlieue image has also found its way into the big screen with the movie B-13. This action/...
The break-dancing scene in France is widespread, and some French B-boys are well known for taking part in competitions such as BOTY. Two of the most well-known crews from France are the Vagabonds and the Pockemon, as both of them won the BOTY.
Krümm, Philippe and Jean-Pierre Rasle. "Music of the Regions". 2000. In Broughton, Simon and Ellingham, Mark with McConnachie, James and Duane, Orla (Ed.), World Music, Vol. 1: Africa, Europe and t...Martínez, Isabelle Marc (2008). Le rap français: esthétique et poétique des textes (1990-1995) (in French). Peter Lang. ISBN 9783039114825.McCarren, Felicia (30 May 2013). French Moves: The Cultural Politics of Le Hip Hop. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199939978.Piolet, Vincent (2017). Regarde ta jeunesse dans les yeux. Naissance du hip-hop français 1980-1990 (in French). Le mot et le reste. ISBN 978-2360542901.Bibliographie. Ouvrages et articles. Documentaires. Hip-hop français. Le hip-hop français, ou rap français, est un courant musical du hip-hop ayant émergé en France au milieu des années 1980 sur le modèle du hip-hop américain. Il est à l'origine principalement diffusé sur des radios pirates.
Aug 11, 2023 · Music historians agree that the birth of hip-hop culture happened on 11 August 1973 in an apartment in the Bronx, a New York City borough. Since then, the movement has gone through five decades...
Sep 16, 2016 · Thomas Blondeau explains how French hip-hop has carved out a unique place in the musical landscape. September 16, 2016. By Thomas Blondeau. Elena Gumeniuk. When Suprême NTM entered the studio to record their first album in the fall of 1990, French rap barely existed on record.
Growing Up Hip Hop is the original installment of the Growing Up Hip Hop reality television franchise on WE tv. The series premiered on January 7, 2016, and chronicles the lives of the children of hip hop legends. Its success has led to the creation of spin-offs Growing Up Hip Hop: Atlanta and Growing Up Hip Hop: New York.
