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    This document discusses the evolution and history of hip hop music. It begins with the origins of hip hop in the Bronx in 1973, where DJ Kool Herc began playing breakbeats and rapping at parties. As hip hop grew in popularity, MCs and DJs started forming duos and improving their techniques. The first hip hop single, Rapper's Delight, was released in 1979. Gangsta rap later emerged from artists like Ice-T and NWA rapping about crime and violence. More recently, alternative hip hop styles have developed from independent artists releasing mixtapes. In conclusion, hip hop has given a voice to generations and influenced American culture while also facing criticism for sometimes promoting social rebellion.

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    This document discusses the evolution and history of hip hop music. It begins with the origins of hip hop in the Bronx in 1973, where DJ Kool Herc began playing breakbeats and rapping at parties. As hip hop grew in popularity, MCs and DJs started forming duos and improving their techniques. The first hip hop single, Rapper's Delight, was released in 1979. Gangsta rap later emerged from artists like Ice-T and NWA rapping about crime and violence. More recently, alternative hip hop styles have developed from independent artists releasing mixtapes. In conclusion, hip hop has given a voice to generations and influenced American culture while also facing criticism for sometimes promoting social rebellion.

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    Evelyn Smith

    May 8, 2017

    2B

    Evolution of Hip Hop

    Hip-hop is a style of popular music of US black and Hispanic origin, featuring rap with an

    electronic backing. Hip-hop culture has become a global language mainly because of its ability to

    speak both to and through youth, creating a cultural free space that heads around the world have

    found as a site of identification, a place where they can be themselves by building their languages,

    styles, attitudes, and physical and political stances in ways that sometimes challenge supreme

    cultures. In this region, hip-hop language mixing threatens the plans of language policy-makers as

    it operates, at least for the present generation, as a positive and social force by taking a stand

    against racial inequalities and other types of socioeconomic oppression. Its through these diverse

    language practices and language that hip-hop heads are changing both the word and the world. I

    think that hip-hop creates diversity in culture and language and helps others understand your

    personal background and struggles.

    Kool Herc went to the Bronx in 1967 when he was 12 years old. When he was attending Alfred

    E. Smith High School he spent a lot of time in the weight room. That fact with his height

    despised the other kids to call him Hercules. on this day in 1973, at a birthday party in the weight

    room of an apartment building in the west Bronx, New York City. The location of that birthplace

    was 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, and the man who lead over that historic party was the birthday girls

    brother, Clive Campbellknown as in history as DJ Kool Herc, founding father of hip hop. Born
    and raised to the age of 10 in Kingston, Jamaica, DJ Kool Herc begun spinning records at parties

    and between sets his fathers band played while he was a teenager in the Bronx in the early 1970s.

    DJ Kool Herc often emulated the style of Jamaican selectors.

    As rapping became more popular, more DJ and MC duos formed. As the competition grew, DJs

    started improving their beats by using techniques like sampling short drum breaks and scratching.

    MCs also started improving their raps by using more harder rhymes and by getting flow, or the

    ability to rap with a good sense of rhythm and a natural flowing style. Hip hop music was only

    performed live at first, but in 1979 a hip hop single called Rapper's Delight by The Sugarhill Gang

    was released, and it became a top-ten hit worldwide.

    Los Angeles' gangsta rap developed from the rap music of artists like Ice-T and NWA. Ice-T

    began by sampling funk rhythms and rapping about the dangers of drugs, crime and dropping out

    of school in tracks like 1990s You Played Yourself. The members of NWA were from Compton,

    one of LA's poorest and most violent places, and they rapped about the injustice and police

    violence in their neighborhood. Their angry raps included a lot of sensitive language, and the

    media attention this created helped their albums reach the top of the charts. Former NWA member

    Ice Cube released his classic gangsta album Death Certificate in 1991, and Tupac Shakur, or 2Pac,

    released his own album All Eyez on Me before being killed in 1996.

    Since 2010, new styles of alternative hip hop and underground rap have been created by

    independent artists who begun their careers by releasing free mixtapes and counting on Twitter,

    Facebook and other social media to build platforms. Some of the best albums and mixtapes by

    these artists include Earl Sweatshirt's Doris Chance the Rapper's mixtape Acid Rap, YG's My

    Krazy Life, Freddie Gibbs and Madlib's Piata, Run the Jewels' Run the Jewels 2, Young Thug &
    Bloody Jays mixtape Black Portland and Kendrick Lamar's very popular album To Pimp a

    Butterfly.

    Hip Hop has influenced and uplifted America, speaking up for generations and giving a voice to a group of

    people trying to deliver a message. Some people of Hip Hop culture say that the music is aggressive in nature and

    promotes social rebellion- however provocative lyrics do not cancel the fact that Hip Hop is a vocal for many people in

    America. Hip Hop has provided a platform for MCs and rappers to express their opinions about society, the government

    and the treatment of African Americans in America for years.

    Works cited

    http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kool-dj-herc-mn0001254243/biography

    http://www.blackpast.org/aah/campbell-clive-dj-kool-herc-1955

    http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130809-the-party-where-hip-hop-was-born

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