Hip hop

Hip hop originated in the 1970s from African American music. It started in the Bronx, new York. It came from the influence of African Americans and later with the influence of Jamaicans and Latino immigrants. Hip hop consisted of four features of African mythology.

African mythology
Signifyin - is a practice in African American culture, involving a verbal strategy of indirection that exploits the gap between the detonative and figurative meanings of words. Jazz poetry is poetry that demonstrates jazzlike rhythm / feel of improvisation Blues talk (talking blues) is a form of blues and country music. The dozens go head to head in a competition of often good natured, trash talk. They take turns insulting each other, in the end one with the best insults is awarded the winner.

70s hip hop

Djing was a huge part of hip hop music at the time. Moves such as beat scratching, beat juggling and mix/matching were used. Keith cowboy was part of the furious five he was the first artist to refer to this type of music as hip hop as it was still called disco rap.

80s hip hop

This was the decade that made hip hop more of a diverse and complex genre. The biggest artists during the early 80s were russell simmons, t la flash and grand master flash. They were the first to bring a new sound to hip hop. The beastie boys made an album called license to ill which became the first rap album in history to become no1 in the billboard charts.

90s hip hop

The 90s arguably produced the best hip hop artists of all time such as notorious B.I.G, 2pac , nas and snoop dogg. They revolutionised the genre. Hip hop was becoming more violent and drug related. It started to gain criticism for being too much of a bad influence for youth living in america.

st 21

century hip hop

Hip hop sales have declined in the recent years, but artists are still attempting to salvage hip hop and bring it back to life. Hip hop music used to possess a story of deprivation, life and death situations where as tracks these days are more about dancing, sex and money. Hip hop music has changed over the last ten years due to the merging and combing of hip hop and R&B music.