Hip Hop Music
Hip hop music, also called hip hop or rap music, is a music genre formed in the United States. Hip hop was created in the 1970s and consist of a stylized rythemic music that commonly accompanies rapping. We will be looking at the different years starting with the 1970s.
Hip hop was formed during the 1970s when block parties were popular in New York City. Particularly around African American teens in the Bronx. Hip hop's early days occurred around the time that sampling technology and drum machines became available to the public at an affordable price. DJ (someone who makes beats) techniques such as scratching, beat mixing and/or matching,and beat juggling developed along with breaks, so it can be rapped over. Hip hop music in its early years has been described as a mean of expression and a voice for the under privileged teens of poor areas as the culture reflected the social, economic, and political realities of their lives.
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The 1980s marked the diversification of hip hop. As the genre grows more complex during the 80s. The quick increase in numbers of electro hip hop and hip hop records in the early 80s can be a major factor to the Roland TR-808 (one of the first programmable drum machines). Hip hop producers still use the 808 kick drum. Independent record labels such as Tommy Boy, Prism Records, and Profile Record became successful in the early 1980s. They released records at a fast rate in response to the demand on the street, generated by local radio and clubs. In the 80s hip hop was largely confined in the United States. Japanese hip hop begun when Hiroshi Fujiwara returned to Japan and started playing hip hop records.
Hip hop was still met with resistance with black radio,including urban contemporary of which Russell Simmons said in 1990, “Black radio hated rap from the start and there is still a lot of resistance to it”. Ice Cube takes his new crew Da Lench Mob to New York and records his solo debut with production from The Bomb Squad, Public
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Enemy's team of producers. The album AmeriKKKas Most Wanted is praised by the hip hop community as a classic and sets Cube on the road to solo stardom.2 Pac releases his debut