Supa Starz

Music:

Member Since: 23/09/2007
Band Members: Anonamuss Jones and Critical Jones(Detention Boys), Lil B, The Slogan, and Yo-Yo
Influences: Everyone in the hip-hop industry: .. Hip hop is both a music genre and a cultural movement developed in urban communities starting in the 1970s, predominantly by African Americans. Coinage of the term hip hop is often credited to Keith Cowboy, a rapper with Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five. Though Lovebug Starski, Keith Cowboy, and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was known as disco rap, it is believed that Cowboy created the term while teasing a friend who had just joined the US Army, by scat singing the words "hip/hop/hip/hop" in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers.Cowboy later worked the "hip hop" cadence into a part of his stage performance, which was quickly copied by other artists; for example the opening of the song "Rapper's Delight" by The Sugarhill Gang. Afrika Bambaataa is credited with first using the term to describe the subculture that hip hop music belongs to, although it is also suggested that the term was originally derisively used against the new type of music. Since first emerging in New York City in the 1970s, hip hop has grown to encompass an entire lifestyle that consistently incorporates diverse elements of ethnicity, technology, art and urban life. During the early 1970's, it came to the attention of DJs that the percussion parts of music; the break-beat; were most popular for dancing. DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash both independently isolated and repeated these parts of the music for the purpose of all-night dance parties. The favorite types of music were traditionally the breaks from funk songs, often featuring percussion. This was later developed and refined and included cutting. Rapping then developed as MCs would talk over the music to promote their DJ, other dance parties, or take light-hearted jabs at other lyricists. This soon developed into the rapping that appears on earlier basic hip-hop singles, with MCs talking about problems in their areas and issues facing the community as a whole. Melle Mel, a rapper/lyricist with The Furious Five is often credited with being the first rap lyricist to call himself an "MC." By the late 1970s a myriad DJs were releasing 12" cuts where -MCs- would rap to the beat. Popular tunes included Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five's "Supperrappin'," Kurtis Blow's "The Breaks," and The Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's Delight". In 1982, Melle Mel & Duke Bootee recorded "The Message" (officially credited to Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five), a song that foreshadowed socially conscious hip hop. Hip hop as a culture was further defined in 1983, when former Black Spades gang member Afrika Bambaataa and the Soulsonic Force released a track called "Planet Rock". Instead of simply rapping over disco beats, Bambaataa created an innovative electronic sound, taking advantage of the rapidly improving drum machine and synthesizer technology. Many credit the sensation caused by the track as another defining moment in hip hop music and culture. The mainstream media began to focus on one of the greatest impacts of hip hop; instead of fighting with guns and knives, former gangmembers had a new way of battling — through break dancing, rapping, turntable mixing, and graffiti.[citation needed] By 1985, youth worldwide were laying down scrap linoleum or cardboard, setting down portable stereo and spinning on their backs in tracksuits and sneakers to music by Run DMC, LL Cool J, the Fat Boys, Herbie Hancock, Soulsonic Force, Jazzy Jay, ScottyB, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, and Stetsasonic, to name a few.
Sounds Like: The Supa Starz Try To Sound Like The Supa Starz or The S.S.C. for short(Supa Star Cliq),This Young Group of talented Souls Bring The Heat As They Alwayz Switch Thier Styles Up. There are so many influences to describe the style and motivation of them so in short they left us with this,"Thank You All," refering to everyone in the music industry.
Type of Label: Major