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- Hip-hop originated in the predominantly African American economically depressed South Bronx section of New York City in the late 1970s. As the hip-hop movement began at society’s margins, its origins are shrouded in myth, enigma, and obfuscation.
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Jul 17, 2023 · 50 years of hip-hop history: New York Beneath the 8 million stories in the culture's birthplace lies a bigger one: the story of American Blackness, which crystallized in a music that can't...
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Aug 11, 2023 · After all, hip-hop was started by a bunch of kids messing around in New York City. At least that’s what the media in the 1970s and ’80s thought about the new music and dance craze.
Mosi Reeves. | GRAMMYs / Aug 11, 2023 - 02:28 pm. 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.
Aug 3, 2023 · Ma'Chell Duma. | GRAMMYs / Aug 3, 2023 - 08:42 am. New York is indisputably the birthplace of hip-hop, but which of the city's five boroughs has dominated the genre continues to be a spirited debate among its scholars and natives. The "Boogie Down" Bronx is the origin point of hip-hop history.
Aug 11, 2023 · 10 August 2023. By Rebecca Laurence,Features correspondent. Getty Images. It is 50 years since DJ Kool Herc's 'back to school jam' in New York's West Bronx kick-started a movement and...
Aug 10, 2023 · Hip-hop got its start in a Bronx apartment building 50 years ago. Here’s how the concept of home has been at the center of the genre ever since. Over five decades, hip-hop has grown from a new ...
Aug 9, 2023 · Hip-hop eventually expanded across New York City, then to different parts of the country and the world. But as artists and hip-hop giants mark the 50th anniversary of a multi-billion dollar global industry this month, the original birthplace of the movement remains the poorest section of New York City.
