Jumat, 11 Juli 2014

Overview Of Hip Hop Producers At The Beginning Of Hip Hop

By Jeff L. Robertson


Hip Hop originated in New York in the 70s. DJ Afrika Bambaataa first identified the five pillars of Hip Hop culture: mcing, DJing, breakdancing, graffiti and knowledge (Hip Hop philosophy). Other elements include beatboxing, hip hop fashion and slang. Originating in the South Bronx in the 1970s, Hip Hop has become part of youth culture in many countries. Hip Hop producers in Los Angeles have grown in numbers to match its popularity.



The main parts, also called the four elements of hip hop culture are MCing, DJing, graffiti and break dancing. The term Hip Hop was created by rappers and DJs. With its origin from socially marginalized groups, the subculture is spontaneously non-conformist in relation to the Western values. People who consider themselves to be part of hip hop subculture may engage in rap, graffiti and break dance.

Baggy clothes started in prisons of New York, where they only had one-size uniforms. This led to medium built prisoners to wear over-size outfits. The baggy look gradually became more and more fashionable and mainstream. Around the late 1980s, gangsta rap style emerged in America, led by groups like NWA, which dominated the U. S. West coast. Previously, hip hop had been reserved for New Yorkers, and a strong grouping occurred with west coast rappers on one side and east coast rappers on the other side .

The task of composing includes DJ rhythm on a drum machine, sampling (use of fragments of other songs, particularly bass and synth), manipulation of vinyl records and sometimes beatboxing (vocal imitation). Currently, hip hop is one of the most commercially successful forms of modern music, stylistically represented by numerous characters within the genre.

Hip Hop concept of subcultural contexts started in the 1970s when the Jamaican -born Clive Campbell known as DJ Kool Herc, moved to New York. He tried to make rhymes of his Reggae beats to Block Parties. Contemporary New Yorkers were not so crazy about reggae so Kool Herc had to try something new. He began using small instrumental bits of contemporary hit songs as he repeated (looped) indefinitely by use of a mixer and two turntables with the same plate.

The word hip used in African American dialect meant moving parts of the human body. The word hop points to the movement (jump). According to philosophy behind the subculture, this means intellectual movement. Rapper Keith Wiggins, with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are linked to the formation of hip hop. When teased by friends who were drafted into the army, they sang in a jazz manner of speech, thus simulating the rhythm of marching soldiers. Keith later developed a rhythm of hip hop as part of his stage performance.

In early autumn 1979, her studio released the single, Rapper's Delight performed by The Sugarhill Gang, which produced a sensation in the U. S. Market. The single is considered the first rap record despite the fact that some earlier entries contested championship glory. But thanks to this 11 minute track, the American public and the media learned about the hip hop phenomenon. However, despite the popularity of this song (sold 8 million copies), some people agreed in opinion that it was a musical joke of which nothing happens further.

Hip Hop was the first music genre that best embodies the ideology and identity of contemporary African-American culture. This ideology was built on the antagonism towards white Anglo-Saxon culture. Over the past decades, its style emerged as radically different from the traditional style of the white population. The subculture cultivated its own jargon, manner of pronunciation, dance styles, graphic art (graffiti - images made with aerosol sprays or special markers). As the genre of music moves forward, there are many underground hip hop producers in Los Angeles and New York moving the art form into the future.




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