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History of HipHop
Hip-hop originated in the predominantly African American economically depressed
South Bronx section of New York City in the late 1970s. As the hip-hop movement began at
society’s margins, its origins are shrouded in myth, enigma, and obfuscation. The term hip-hop
refers to a complex culture comprising four elements: deejaying, or “turntabling”; rapping, also
known as “MCing” or “rhyming”; graffiti painting, also known as “graf” or “writing”; and “B-
boying,” which encompasses hip-hop dance, style, and attitude, along with the sort of virile body
language that philosopher Cornel West described as “postural semantics.”
The beginnings of the dancing, rapping, and deejaying components of hip-hop were
bound together by the shared environment in which these art forms evolved. The first major hip-
hop deejay was DJ Kool Herc (Clive Campbell), an 18-year-old immigrant who introduced the
huge sound systems of his native Jamaica to inner-city parties. Using two turntables, he melded
percussive fragments from older records with popular dance songs to create a continuous flow of
music. Kool Herc and other pioneering hip-hop deejays such as Grand Wizard Theodore, Afrika
Bambaataa, and Grandmaster Flash isolated and extended the break beat (the part of a dance
record where all sounds but the drums drop out), stimulating improvisational dancing. Contests
developed in which the best dancers created break dancing, a style with a repertoire of acrobatic
and occasionally airborne moves, including gravity-defying headspins and backspins.

Philippine Teams That Won The World of Dance

The 2016 World Hiphop Dance Championship- UPeepz
Hailing from the University of the Philippines, dance crew UPeepz has brought pride and
international recognition to our humble shores. Last year, the group took the top prize at the
World Hiphop Dance Championships, which was held at The Westin Las Vegas Resort & Spa.
UPeepz earned the top score of 8.69 for the MegaCrew Divison. Behind them were Lock ‘n Lol
from South Korea and Royal Family from New Zealand, who scored 8.37 and 8.29 respectively.

The 2014 Hip Hop International World Championship- A-Team

It is the first time that the Philippines won in the megacrew division of the world dance
competition. Most of the country's previous victories in the competition came from the Adult
Crew category, with The Crew winning in 2012, Armistice in 2011, and the Philippine All Stars
in 2009, 2008 and 2006.

2006 and 2008 World Hip Hop Dance Championships- Philippine All Stars
The Philippine All-Stars is a Philippine hip-hop dance group. They were formed on 2005
by twelve individuals that were working in the Manila underground Hip-hop scene. They also
joined the “Artists Revolution: 365 days to change” campaign which asks the Filipino voters to
be more critical in choosing their political leaders in the coming 2010 elections.
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Philippine Teams that won World of Dance

 Team Philippines Assumption San Lorenzo- this team won gold in the USASF/IASF
Dance World Hip Hop competition held in Orlando, USA May 4, 2019 beating 168
countries.
 NITROUS IMAGE CREW- won 2nd place in the World of Dance Championships 2018
Team Division.
 PH Dance Crew- A dance team from the Philippines that won a medal in the 2019 World
Hip Hop Dance Championship held in Phoenix, Arizona from August 5 to 10.

History of Hip-hop
The word 'hip' was a part of the African American Vernacular English language since 1904. It
meant ‘current’. It was a derivative of the word ‘hep’. The South Bronx community leader
Afrika Bambaataa used the term ‘hip-hop’ for the first time. In the 1970s, the hip-hop music
came up. It was based on turntablism, the art of manipulating sounds to create music and the
simultaneous looping of the break, an upbeat drum. Later this technique was combined with the
rapping of MCs. Hip-hop dance is an art form that is primarily performed on hip-hop music. Hip-
hop is danced on the streets. The styles that developed in the later years are known as the New
School. The older ones involve break dances and funk styles. The period between 1970 to 1985
marked the old school era of hip-hop. The period between 1985 to 1993 was believed to be the
golden age of hip-hop. Some of the different forms of hip-hop dance include Harlem shake, snap
dance, gangsta walking. The four historic elements of Hip-Hop are MCing, also known as
rapping, DJing, graffiti, an art that has derived inspiration from the urban culture and break
dancing, which is also called b-boying. There can be no dance without music! The emergence of
hip-hop music and its popularity in the masses gave rise to the hip-hop dancing style. It was
Clive Campbell who developed hip-hop music for the first time in Bronx, New York. He
developed a blueprint for hip-hop music and culture reposed on the Jamaican tradition of
toasting. He originated hip-hop music at the young age of thirteen. Clive also developed break-
beat deejaying. In this form of art, pieces of funk music are isolated and played repeatedly for
all-night dance parties. Towards the beginning of the 1970s, Kool DJ Herc started organizing
dance parties in his home. Large groups of teenagers joined in,They got an opportunity to
constructively use their energy and express their opinions through dance. Originally MCs would
talk over the music to cheer their dances or talk about the problems faced by their community.
This led to the involvement of rap in hip-hop. The word ‘rap’ was derived from the slang word
that meant ‘conversation’. Later the artists brought in some lyrics from the African American
culture in their rapping. Eventually break dancing came up. The 1980s witnessed the inclusion of
synthesizer technology into hip-hop. Many hip-hop films were released. Hip-hop styles differ in
different parts of the world. Dance studios from the world over offer hip-hop coaching.
Choreographers may focus on a particular aspect of hip-hop dance or combine various styles of
the dance. We see mixed opinions about hip-hop in society. But on the whole, hip-hop dance has
managed to gain a huge fan following. The hip-hop moves and the rocking hip-hop numbers are
bound to enchant one and all.