Sabtu, 07 Juni 2014

A History Of Underground Hip Hop And Popular Music

By Todd S. Braun


Hip Hop music has its roots in the black funk and soul music of the 70's. Rap originated from the R&B tradition of which is complemented by the sampling and scratching which began in black ghettos of the United States. Hip Hop refers to not only a musical genre, but also the youth culture characterized by elements of rap (MCing), DJing, breakdancing, graffiti writing and beatboxing.



A building located on 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx is often referred to as the birthplace of Hip Hop because the pioneer Kool Herc worked there. Kool DJ Herc began working in 1973, he was the DJ who introduced the practice of repeating the beats of funk, soul and disco, instead of playing the whole piece and assemble two different beats (the so-called beat juggling). On his block parties, B-Boys appear as the new break dance outfit.

This was confirmed by top chart positions by artists such as K'naan, Kid Cudi, Drake or Nicki Minaj in the following years. Since the early 1990s, Hip Hop had spread internationally. Typical styles of each country have emerged, but overall the performers from the United States remain dominant. In Europe, Hip Hop was already falling on fertile ground around the 80s, in places such as Paris and Marseille. There also exist Hip Hop scenes in other countries (e. G, Germany, Poland, Belgium).

The strongest acts of the early 1990s on the East Coast were either intellectual formations, especially the Native Tongues Posse, such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Black Sheep, Jungle Brothers, and the Fu - Schnickens, or political acts such as Public Enemy or KRS-One. Although some very experimental or politically dedicated tones found strong favor with the critics.

Consolidation of Hip Hop as a separate style with its own techniques called mixtapes came in 1979, when the disco Fatback band together with the rapper King Tim III Personality Jock band released a single. A week later came the famous "Rapper's Delight" by Sugar Hill Gang, which was a huge success, to the surprise of all concerned, it sold over 8 million copies worldwide.

However, the major trailblazing rap star was Kurtis Blow, who had already been successful with his first single and it remained so with his subsequent albums until the mid-80s. After "Rapper's Delight", it was clear that money could be earned with Hip Hop, and the interest of music industry bosses turned to rap (the term Hip Hop was still uncommon).

Musically, it was in the second half of the 1990s that major innovations really happened. The beats became more complex, you could hear the influence of styles such as reggae and dancehall (raggamuffin Hip Hop), but also the old-school hip-hop and electro funk from the 80s. In addition, the style of Hip Hop continued to grow along with soul and R & B right through to the early 2000s, the influence again reached the normal pop music. Significant albums include Wyclef Jean (The Carnival, 1997) and Lauryn Hill (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, 1998).

In the same year as The Message and the second single of another DJ veterans of Block Party era, Planet Rock by Afrika Bambaataa appeared. The international hit "Trans Europe Express" was first produced with synthesizers. Fast drum machine beats and machine synthesizer riffs and arpeggios by Bambaataa, on the other hand, seemed influential for the genre of electro funk that gradually broke away from Hip Hop producers and experienced a revival in the late 1990s at the Technopark area.




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