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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.
Hip-hop or hip hop music, also known as rap, and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s by African Americans and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in the Bronx, a borough of New York City.
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.
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 ...
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...
Rich Fury/Getty Images. World Cafe Words and Music Podcast. The Culture Corner: Philadelphia's place in hip-hop history. August 23, 2023 • As we celebrate 50 years of hip-hop, World Cafe...
Jul 18, 2023 · These 50 histories detail hip-hop from countless vantage points: the past forward, and vice versa; the underground upward; the less populated regions outward; the big cities out into the...
