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Title: Rap and Hip-hop


1
Rap and Hip-hop
  • A music and culture

2
The Beginnings of the Music
  • The music truly came about in the 1970s
  • Starting at Block parties in New York City
  • DJs used Drum beats from Reggae

3
The Culture itself
  • Many things rose from the music as well, a whole
    culture
  • Break dancing
  • Flow
  • Graffiti styles
  • DJ mixing

4
Break Dancing
  • A popular style of dancing in the 80s
  • Includes complicated movements such as Backflips,
    Windmills, handstands, kip ups, etc.
  • There are many styles of Breakdancing such as
    popping and locking, floating and the traditional
  • In the elements of hip-hop Breaking is
    represented as cardboard since many b-boys used
    cardboard to slide and perform moves on

5
Flow
  • Flowing is basically rapping off hand
  • The person flowing is called an MC
  • The MC raps to a beat provided by a DJ
  • In the elements Flowing is represented by the mic
    (microphone)

6
Graffiti
  • Graffiti, the art side of spray cans
  • Many times conceived as simple vandalism, is
    actually an art form
  • The art is harder to find than oddly written
    letters on a wall, but representations of ideas
    made by spray paint
  • Represented in the four elements of hip-hop as
    the cans

7
DJ
  • Many times a DJ is simply playing music at a
    club, but getting more complicated the
    transitions and scratching between songs is much
    more to the point
  • Many DJs also can create new songs from
    fragments, the Turntables are made into
    instruments instead of an outdated medium for
    music playing
  • This become the fourth element of Hip-hop
    represented by the Turntables

8
Style
  • The culture of Hip-hop and rap has spawned a
    style of clothing as well.
  • An old generalization was sagging the pants so
    that waist of the pants are below your own waist
    by several inches, which has been going out of
    style
  • In the 80s heavy chains, velour jumpsuits,
    Kangol hats and adidas sneakers were in style, as
    of late they have seemingly come back and left
    again
  • While the 90s brought sagging, t-shirt and
    jeans, puffy jacket and some odd fads
  • The current style is basically the persons style,
    with mixing generations and new clothing.

9
Evolution of the music
  • In the mid 80s there was more of a rise of
    hip-hop speaking of living life, the world around
    them and love popular artists include, Will
    Smith, LL Cool J, Sugar Hill gang, etc
  • The style changed when Gangsta rap was introduced
    in the early 90s, popular rappers of this style
    are Tupac, Notorious B.I.G, Dr.Dre, Ice Cube
  • Changing midway through the 90s and making it
    about diamonds, money, cars and being a pimp or
    player. Losing its way from a culture about the
    music to a music about a culture that wishes

10
Where Hip-Hop is going
  • In hopes of rejuvenating hip-hop rappers have
    come back and the popularity of meaningful rap
    growing with artist such as Jin, Eminem, Nas, Mos
    Def, Jay Z, etc.
  • The future is hopefully going back into the
    hidden messages and love of the music such as the
    classic Common song I used to Love Her which
    seems to be a song about a girl he loved is about
    Hip-hop itself
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