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The earliest hip-hop music was performed live, at house parties and block party events, and it was not recorded. DJs would play breaks from popular songs using two turntables and a DJ mixer. Prior to 1979, recorded hip-hop music consisted mainly of PA system soundboard recordings of live party shows and early hip-hop mixtapes by DJs.
Hip hop magazines describe hip hop's culture, including information about rappers and MCs, new hip hop music, concerts, events, fashion and history. The first hip hop publication, The Hip Hop Hit List was published in the 1980s.
Chuck Philips, Los Angeles Times, 1992 Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop that reflects the violent lifestyles of inner-city American black youths. Gangsta is a non-rhotic pronunciation of the word gangster. The genre was pioneered in the mid-1980s by rappers such as Schoolly D and Ice-T, and was popularized in the later part of the 1980s by groups like N.W.A. In 1985 Schoolly D released "P ...
The four foundational elements of hip-hop — DJing or turntablism, MCing or rapping, B-boying or break dancing and graffiti “writing” — emerged from the Bronx as a "cultural response to a ...
20th century in hip-hop music (3 C, 2 P) ... Pages in category "History of hip-hop" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
The roots of hip-hop might be firmly planted at 1520 Sedgwick Ave. in the Bronx, but its branches clearly extend into North Jersey. On Aug. 11, 1973, DJ Kool Herc tried something new while ...
DJ Kool Herc credited with helping originate hip hop music in the Bronx, New York City, in the 1970s. Hip hop was a cultural movement that began in Bronx in the early 1970s, consisting of four elements. Two of them, rapping and DJing, make up hip hop music. These two elements were imported from Jamaica by DJ Kool Herc.
The term golden age hip hop frames the late 1980s in mainstream hip hop, [20] said to be characterized by its diversity, quality, innovation and influence, [21] and associated with Public Enemy, KRS-One and his Boogie Down Productions, Eric B. & Rakim, Ultramagnetic MCs, [22] [23] De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and the Jungle Brothers [24 ...