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Aug 11, 2023 · Mosi Reeves. | GRAMMYs / Aug 11, 2023 - 07:28 am. This year marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, a cultural movement that rose from humble beginnings in New York to fuel a worldwide phenomenon. Scholars may debate whether its roots precede Aug. 11, 1973, when DJ Kool Herc debuted his "merry-go-round" technique of playing funk breaks back-to ...
History of Rap & Hip-Hop — Timeline of African American Music. Rock. Secular. Rap/Hip-Hop. House. Electro-Funk. Detroit Techno. New Jack Swing. Holy Hip-Hop/Christian Rap. Disco. Funk. Jazz Hip-Hop Fusion. Back to timeline. G-MAN Park Jam in the Bronx. Photograph by Henry Chalfant. The Birthday Party. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. Loungin’.
As hip hop celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2023, explore its evolution through 50 essential albums that contributed to the genre’s impact on pop culture.
Apr 1, 2023 · Hip-Hop History: From Golden Age To Digital Age, And The Rappers Who Led The Way. Ian McCann. 01 April 2023. Hip-hop? Well, that’ll never last. When rap burst into the public consciousness at the start of the 80s, many seasoned observers saw it as a an inevitably limited craze: why, those guys didn’t even sing. Turns out nobody cared about that.
Aug 9, 2023 · Arts Aug 9, 2023 7:04 PM EDT. NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song’s vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It...
Aug 20, 2021 · AT THE SMITHSONIAN. Chronicling Hip-Hop’s 45-Year Ascendance as a Musical, Cultural and Social Phenom. The groundbreaking box set “Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap” features 129...
May 24, 2019 · The History of Hip-Hop: 1925 to Now. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. By. Henry Adaso. Updated on 05/24/19. If you start in the past and work all the way to the present, the history of hip-hop spreads out in every direction. It dates back to the 1920s, when the earliest form of hip-hop dance was invented.
