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Aug 11, 2023 · On August 11, 1973, a young innovative DJ rocked a modest party for fellow teenagers in a small community room in a Bronx apartment building. What Kool Herc did behind the turntables at that...
Apr 18, 2024 · These early MCs and deejays constituted rap’s old school. Hip-hop is a cultural movement that attained popularity in the 1980s and ’90s. It is the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement’s most lasting and influential art form.
General Education. Although widely synonymous with rap music today, hip-hop actually got its start as a full-on cultural movement in the 1970s. For the first few decades that the term was around, hip-hop wasn’t just about music: it also referred to art, style, dance, and philosophy.
From the street corner to the world stage, hip hop has grown into one of the world’s most prominent musical genres and cultural influences. Explore significant events in hip hop history and its explosive evolution.
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Aug 11, 2023 · The Origins of Hip Hop. Who first started hip hop? New York City’s Afrika Bambaataa became known as ‘the Godfather’. A pioneering DJ and music producer, he organised block parties in the Bronx during the late 1970s.
Aug 9, 2023 · Deepti Hajela, Associated Press. Leave your feedback. Hip-hop turns 50, reinventing itself and swaths of the world along the way. Arts Aug 9, 2023 7:04 PM EDT. NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in...
Apr 1, 2024 · Rap, which originated in African American communities in New York City, came to national prominence with the Sugar Hill Gang’s “ Rapper’s Delight” (1979). Rap’s early stars included Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Run-D.M.C., LL Cool J, Public Enemy (who espoused a radical political message), and the Beastie Boys. The late ...
