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    The Hip-Hop Movement

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    people to other types of music. The Hip-Hop Movement will discuss‚ the people who started the Hip-Hop movement and whom is affected‚ the purpose of the movement and what it hopes to achieve. First off‚ it was started in 1973 by Grandmaster Flash‚ Afrika Bambaataa‚ and Run D.M.C. A few people/groups that were key in this movement were N.W.A. and Eazy-E‚ and Russell Simmons. Some more recent key artists include Eminem‚ Drake‚ Jay-Z‚ Beyoncé. Most people affected by this is movement teenagers and

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    the lampposts on 163rd Street and Prospect Avenue and DJ Kool Herc at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue‚ where Herc Herc would mix samples of existing records with his own shouts to the crowd and dancers. Kool Herc is credited as the "father" of Hip hop. DJ Afrika Bambaataa of the hip hop collective Zulu Nation outlined the pillars of hip hop culture‚ to which he coined the terms: MCing‚ DJing‚ B-boying and graffiti writing. Since its evolution throughout the South Bronx‚ hip hop culture has spread to both urban

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    made up rhythmic poems that gained in popularity and were the first raps. Others soon followed‚ and rap music was born. The genre has been written off many times as a fad by people who didn’t understand it‚ but it has refused to die. Afrika Bambaataa‚ one of the first rappers [source: Rolling Stone]‚ hoped to use hip-hop as a way to speak out against the violence culture that had developed among many poor inner-city groups.

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    rhythmic cadence of soldiers marching.[13] Cowboy later worked the "hip hop" cadence into a part of his stage performance‚ which was quickly used by other artists such as The Sugarhill Gang in "Rapper’s Delight".[13] Universal Zulu Nation founder Afrika Bambaataa is credited with first using the term to describe the subculture in which the music belonged; although it is also suggested that it was a derogatory term to describe the type of music.[15] The first use of the term in print was in The Village

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    The History of Hip Hop

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    Introduction Hip hop music is a style of popular music. It is usually composed of two elements: rapping (also known as emceeing) and DJing. When combined with break dancing and graffiti art‚ these are the four components of hip hop‚ a cultural movement which began in New York City in the 1970s‚ predominantly by African Americans and Latinos.[1] The term rap music is sometimes used synonymously with hip hop music‚ though it is also used to refer specifically to the practice of rapping. Origins

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    Over the past 30 years hip hop has grown and influences many ages‚ genders and races. Often hip hop reflects on the outlook on their life. The hardships‚ violence‚ struggles‚ economic and political problems. African american music was heard at every corner in all time periods. The genre of hip hop profoundly the voice of america and influencing the nation.It all started around the same man known as DJ kool herc. Jamaican Born and raised in the bronx new york created the blueprint for hip hop music

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    Are we being fooled by The Hip-Hop Industry? A lot of us today really enjoy hip hop music‚ maybe because of the catchy beats‚ addictive hooks‚ or glamorized artiste that write and perform the songs‚ but do we really understand the power behind the messages in these songs. About two years ago I was introduced to the teachings of Evangelist G Craig Lewis‚ he stated that Hip Hop really is not all it is cut out to be but instead a satanic religion used to sway the mass to serve and alternative master

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    Social Justice In Hip Hop

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    repressed urban African Americans for generations. By listening to the words of conscious hip hop artists‚ and identifying themselves with hip hop culture‚ we see a revitalization of the words spoken by political thinkers prior‚ within the lyrics of Afrika Bambaataa‚ Common‚ Killer Mike‚ and countless others. Social Justice theory is an incredibly broad and extensive field‚ in which anybody can get lost for years studying‚ Because of that and for the sake of this paper‚ we will only be examining the works

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    Harlem Renaissance

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    Maxwell Wright HIST557 C001 September 23‚ 2012 The Harlem Renaissance and a Hip Hop Culture In the 1920’s a group of African-American intellectuals decided to come together and construct the New Negro Movement‚ later called the Harlem Renaissance. It was a time when black poets‚ novelists‚ and artists set out to disprove the negative stereotypes and prove that black people were not inferior to white people—they felt that they deserved respect. “The

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    The Origins of Hip Hop

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    The Evolution of Hip-Hop and Transformation of Rap Music Hip-hop‚ not to be confused with the musical genre‚ is a form of musical demonstration and artistic culture that has remained popular since its emergence in the 1970s. It can be categorized as a cultural movement that includes four primary elements: Disk jockeying (DJing)‚ rapping (emceeing)‚ break dancing‚ and graffiti art. It gave birth to a new musical genre known as “rap‚” a rhythmic style in which lyrics are spoken or chanted. Over the

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