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The Evolution Of Hip Hop When you hear the phrase Hip-Hop, music, dancing, rapping often come to mind. ... Hip-Hop is a culture. ... One artist defined Hip-Hop as a set of expressions in vocalization, instrumentation, dancing and the visual arts. More specifically, hip hop is a combination of graffiti, break dancing, djing and mcing (also known as rapping), that creates a lifestyle with its own language, style of dress, music and mind set thats continuously evolving. ... Major credit is given to a man named DJ Kool Herc who along with others started the Hip-Hop culture in the south Bronx. ... For example, art has been drawn on walls since the beginning of time, but a new type of graffiti wall art came of the hip hop culture in the late 1960s and early 1970s (when Hip-Hop was thought to have begun). ... Break dancing is another element that makes up the culture of Hip-Hop. ... Break dancing and graffiti have the lowest profit potential of any element of Hip-Hop, and therefore, in my opinion are the most pure forms of hip hop. ... Another element of the Hip-Hop culture is Djing. ... With the need for more beats, DJ Kool Herc was the first to DJ with two turntables It didnt take long for the DJ to become an important factor in the growth of Hip-Hop. ... Mcing (rapping) is a very large element of Hip-Hop (if not the largest). ... But they still work together to create a fresh product that the hip hop community will want to listen to. ... As time moves on, rap music continued to flourish the most within the Hip-Hop culture. ... this allowed hip hop to actually be seen all over the world. MTV plays Hip-Hop videos, and has prompted the creation of Hip-Hop and R & B based video channels such as BET. Since the birth of the visual aspect of hip hop, commercialization has played a large part in the evolution of rap and hip hop. Now more then ever the effects of Hip hop can be seen in everyday America. ... Everywhere that you look, you can see people of all ages wearing clothing inspired by hip hop and even the very way that we speak has been affected as slang becomes a more acceptable form of expression.
Approximate Word count = 1861
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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