
These are the Best Hip Hop Songs for Weddings to get people on the dance floor! Hip hop style of music is created from African music. Famous solo artists include Eminem and 50 Cent. Popular hip-hop groups include Sugarhill Gang, Fab 5 Freddy, Kurtis Blow and Watch the Throne. Hip-hop winners of the 2012 Grammys included Kanye West, Jay-Z, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, Lupe Fiasco, Bon Iver and Nicki Minaj, among others. Rapping is also used in a wide variety of other genres, include jazz, disco, funk and even Japanese dance music. Variationsĭerivatives of hip-hop music include electro, breakbeat, hardcore, club R&B, funk breaks and abstract hip hop.ĭerivatives of rap music include grime. Rap focuses more on the “here-and-now,” discussing issues such as popular culture and politics. It pairs lyrics with fast-paced music and discusses common relationship issues. The culture of hip hop was a movement that started over 20 years ago, 25 years ago in the south Bronx that incorporates 5 elements: the DJ, the dancer (break dancer, street dancer), graffiti artist, the MC-the rapper, and then the 5th which is the knowledge of it all and how it connects. In this video, rapper Ice-T explains the difference between rap and hip-hop as follows: Rap is vocal delivery, hip-hop is a culture. It has a background in improvisational poetry. Rap is the combination of rhyme and poetry to a musical beat. The term “hip-hop” also includes other lifestyle trends such as clothing, slang and mindset. Hip-hop is composed of four main elements: MCing, DJing, grafitti and breakdancing. The music movement spread to minority populations through the US, and with the advent of music videos, the culture spread to Europe and beyond. These grew to become common elements of the genre. In the early 1980s, Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force released an electro-funk track called “Planet Rock”, which used electronic sounds and synthesizers. Hop hop culture, including graffiti and rapping, was adopted by street gangs in the Bronx as a new form of competition and one-upmanship. The movement spread through the borough, taking inspiration from the rapping used by folk poets in West Africa. They originated in the Bronx in the 1970s, and are believed to have been first used by a Jamaican DJ, Kool Herc, who repeated rhymes over instrumental music at parties at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue.


Iraqi Hip Hoppers aspiring artists at National Unity Performing and Visual Arts Academy in Iraq, 2007 Historyīoth hip-hop and rap have the same origins.
