About Me
It seems in today’s Rap on the radio or TV has lost all of its foundation and to me I seems that people forgot what Hip Hop is all about and where it came from. So this page is to remind those who may have forgot about the origin of Hip Hop and the culture and to spread the Hip Hop culture and knowledge and to continue to keep the real hip hop alive.Hip hop is a cultural movement, which is said to have begun with the work of DJ Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, and Afrika Bambaattaa.The main aspects, or "elements," of hip hop culture are MCing (rapping), DJing, urban inspired art/tagging (graffiti), b-boying (or breakdancing, to most), and beatboxing. Most consider knowledge, or "droppin' science," as the sixth element. The most known "extended" elements are political activism, hip hop fashion, hip hop slang, or other elements as important facets of hip hop. In mainstream spheres, the term "hip hop" typically refers only to hip hop music (or rap music), the music produced by the MCing and DJing aspects of hip hop culture.Hip hop began in The Bronx, a borough in New York City, when DJs began isolating the percussion break from funk and disco songs. The early role of the MC was to introduce the DJ and the music and to keep the audience excited. MCs began by speaking between songs, giving exhortations to dance, greetings to audience members, jokes and anecdotes. Eventually this practice became more stylized and became known as rapping. By 1979, hip hop had become a commercially popular music genre and began to enter the American mainstream. In the 1990s, a form of hip hop called gangsta rap became a major part of American music, causing significant controversy over lyrics which were perceived as promoting violence, promiscuity, drug use and misogyny. Nevertheless, by the beginning of the 2000s, hip hop was a staple of popular music charts and was being performed in many styles across the world
