Hip-Hop

• Hip-Hop


  A Black Urban Youth Culture comprising rapping, Djing, graffiti, beat boxing and break dancing
• Hip-Hop began in the New York City Harlem Ghetto


  Early 1970's
• Black Musical Form - Hip-Hop


  • Had its roots in the Black tradition of talking to music
• The Last Poets put rhythmic, rhyming speech against the funky sounds of Kool and the Gang


  1968
• Harlem Street Poets

  • Gil Scott-Heron
  • More politically conscious and laminated ghetto conditions
• Hip-Hop had spread to the urban centre across America


  Late 1970's
• Rapper's Delight


  First Hip-Hop record which were originally scraped into the Pop Top 40 but eventually sold over 2 millions copies
• Purist criticised the group as pre-fabricated and felt that Hip-Hop had lost its real characters after 'Rapper's Delight' altered the mainstream media to its existence
• Blondie's 'Rapture'


  • Lead singer Debbie Harry tried to be respectful of Hip-Hop, but Purists saw this as an example of white exploitation of black musical tradition