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This genre was called "disco rap". Ironically, the rise of hip-hop music also played a role in the eventual decline in disco's popularity. The disco sound had a strong influence on early hip-hop music. Most of the early rap/hip-hop songs were created by isolating existing disco bass-guitar bass lines and dubbing over them with MC rhymes.
Hip hop or hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, [1] [2] starting in the Bronx, New York City. [a] Pioneered from Black American street culture, [4] [5] that had been around for years prior to its more mainstream discovery, [6] it later reached other groups such as Latino Americans and Caribbean Americans.
Hip-Hop Evolution is a Canadian music documentary television series that originally aired on HBO Canada in 2016. [1] Hosted by Juno Award -winning artist Shad , the series profiles the history of hip-hop music through interviews with many of the genre's leading cultural figures. [ 2 ]
Against the backdrop of Nigeria and South Africa’s hip-hop evolution, the Senegalese rap scene was bubbling up. By the late eighties, hip-hop influence reached the French-speaking country in ...
Here are the stories of 14 hip-hop legends and young stars talking about how they initially got hooked on rap. FAT JOE Fat Joe remembers the first time Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five’s ...
The 1990s marked the beginning of an era of popular culture guided by the musical influences of hip-hop and rap itself, moving away from the influences of rock music. [139] As rap continued to develop and further disseminate, it went on to influence clothing brands, movies, sports, and dancing through popular culture.
Chuck D was one of hip-hop’s elder statesmen even before the genre was old enough to have them: born in 1960, he witnessed its birth in the boroughs of New York in 1973, released his first album ...
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