HOW HIP HOP MUSIC HAS CHANGED EVERYONE'S LIFE?

In August 1973,a young jamaican-born new yorker Clive Campbell known as DJ Kool Herc threw a party in the south Bronx with a pair of turntables, he improvised a technique that isolated and repeated musical breaks. That technique would lay the foundation of a genre known as Hip-Hop.

Hip-hop music emerged from house parties in the Bronx, and spread like wildfire between friends and neighbors at block parties. The new sound was electrifying. Within a few years it became an underground cultural movement and its distribution was homemade.  As its influence deepened and broadened, the music spread  from the underground onto the radio.

In 1976, Joseph Saddler, known as Grandmaster Flash, took a crack and marked the point where the great starts. And then one day he was just tired of doing it, so he went to the radio sack and said he wanted a queuing system that would allow him to hear a record before the audience hears it. So he made the system by himself using some scientific trickery. It was known as the Queuing system. 

In 1979, a group from suburban New Jersey released "Rapper's delight", one of the first hip-hop records. And the Sugarhill Gang's hit was simply the start of the hip-hop era. As hip-hop evolved it became a passion shared by millions of young Americans who used it to articulate their identity and their politics, creating a vibrant, multicultural community across the country.

 This was a new way of communication between young people of the generation. Its lyrics reflect the social and economic conditions of the inner cities, as seen through the eyes of the people who lived there.

In 2017 hip-hop music surpassed rock as America's #1 streamed genre for the first time ever. Decades after its birth hip-hop has grown from its underground origins in the Bronx to become one of the most popular genres of music throughout the world.

Hip-hop music is considered as a culture because of its attributes, not just its single aspect. It included rap music, being a DJ, dance and Graffiti. Over the past three decades hip-hop music has significantly uplifted the lives of many youth from all over the world especially in America. 

The black community from the  Bronx in New York which is considered as the birthplace of New York, but today even the youth of Kibera which is the biggest slum of Kenya, have experienced the influence of  hip-hop. 

In 2007, royalty even met British royalty when Kanye West and P. Diddy attended the Princess Diana Memorial concert. 

Hip-hop was born on the streets of the Bronx in the1970's and had pan African grassroots vibes. It was a fusion of slam poetry in a competitive battle at our format which included dancing known as b-boying or as we call it now- breakdancing.

 The South Bronx was a nice place to live especially in  the 1970s as middle-class white flight led to the Bronx becoming a casspool for crime, corruption and poverty. Some use hip-hop to neutralize violence in the impoverished neighborhood throughout the 1970s and 80s. 

They invented rap music which is just a portion of what hip-hop is. Rap battles have several purposes from stopping potential violence between different gangs just messing around. Hip-hop music also served as a response to what the then appropriated disco culture had become- to get down on Netflix gives good visualization of what the  hip-hop scene was like back in the day.

 Hip-hop music became more mainstream starting in the early 1990s. It changed and transcended the streets from where it was born and in the process it became a worldwide phenomenon. 

Hip-hop culture was expanded upon the invention of the internet and social media with rappers like Kanye West, Kid Cudi and even Drake rising to fame by utilizing Myspace. 

The invention of smartphone apps like instagram and snapchat showcase how people have been influenced by hip-hop. Social media increased the reach of hip-hop to those that otherwise would not be consuming.  

Young creatives express their abilities and motives with the expanded accessibility of various softwares. This rise in social media exposure for hip-hop culture also coincided with it becoming a hotbed for blatant consumerism with rappers becoming almost walking talking advertisements.

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