The Hip Hop Culture

What is “Hip Hop”? In today’s society, Hip Hop is commonly referred as a style of popular music, rap. However, Hip Hop is not just a rap, but a culture where ‘rap’ is often used synonymously with it. The ‘Hip Hop’ culture is known to originate from the South Bronx of New York City in the early 1970s as a liberation movement in the form of a diverse culture. This culture has since grown continuously innovating various different forms of additional elements leading the tradition to grow worldwide; from music, beat-boxing, dance to fashion, styles and many more. It has also rapidly grown in the society to represent urban, rural, suburban and global communication for all age, genders, religious, economic classes, and different races, which has become an international, multibillion-dollar institution that has virtually changed the nature of the music and entertainment industries (Emmett, 2006: 1). Additionally, Hip Hop assembled energetic music, acrobatic dancers, passionate graffiti artists, and skilled wordsmiths into a combined aesthetic, in which it explains each in its own style expressive and a passion for the lifetime and a commitment to individual and collective expression.
Furthermore, as many are aware, Hip Hop is one of the internationally famous culture, well known outside America. It has inspired many different cultures of music and lifestyle therefore for my third chapter, I am writing about ‘Hop Hip in Japan’ as it is one of the most, Hip Hop culture influenced country. Japanese Hip Hop group are not involved only in transforming Hip Hop style to something purely original, but rather in reconfiguring in the culture politics of connection such that the issue does not turn mainly around separations of Japanese against other (Condry,