Hip Hop Music on the Whole

Hip Hop Music on the Whole Author: Luke Thomsen Hip Hop music has become an identity, a character, and a new world on its own. It may be now a craze but it can be originally traced back to South Bronx in the 1970s. This style of music is a worldwide genre... More

Hip Hop Music on the Whole Author: Luke Thomsen Hip Hop music has become an identity, a character, and a new world on its own. It may be now a craze but it can be originally traced back to South Bronx in the 1970s. This style of music is a worldwide genre now, but this culture developed amongst the African Americans and it was their way of life. No wonder, we hear about violence, crime, gangsters, mafia, drugs, guns, women, money, cars and such, all the time. Hip hop has a history of DJ battles, graffiti, disco rap music and the new emerging techniques like Jamaican toasting, scratching, MCing and Old School Hiphoppers like DJ Kool Herc, who is known as the Founding Father of Hip-hop, Afrika Bambaata, Grandmaster Theodore, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Lovebug Starski who coined the term ‘Hip Hop’, The Cold Crush brothers and many other legends. The advent of New School Hip hop was around mid 1980s with hip-hop collective like Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, Eric Less