The Origin of Hiphop and How Music Has Changed
Hip-hop is one of the most popular genres of music in the world today. However, the hip-hop of today’s world is very different from the hip-hop that started it all. Hip-hop has simply evolved to a different type of music than the hip-hop that started it all. Hip-hop started in Brooklyn in 1973 at a block party with DJ Kool Herc, known as the father of hip-hop, mixing the beats. However, hip-hop has changed. There are the advances in technology to help make different sounds for songs. There is the fighting between artists and rappers because of their geographical backgrounds, meaning the areas that they are from. There are many artists making breakthroughs with new styles and different types of lyrics, many of whom set the bar for the prominent artists of today. Hip-hop is a game, but it has many more than one winner, and many more than one loser. First of all, a little bit of background information on the roots of hip-hop is needed. 1955 was a year of many events. The Scrabble board game debuted, Elvis Presley performed for the first time on TV, the first McDonald’s opened, “In God We Trust” was added to all the American coins, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, Rosa Parks took her stand against racism by not giving up her seat on a bus to a white person, and finally, Clive Campbell was born in Kingston, Jamaica.
Campbell spent his early childhood living in a city named Trenchtown, in the same public housing that produced many other prominent world figures such as Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Alton Ellis. Campbell’s father had a good job in Jamaica; a job that paid him enough money to be able to move to a house with their own front and back yard, but it was in the public housing in Trenchtown where Clive would get his first taste of the beats he emulated as a DJ in the Bronx, New York. Clive would spy through windows and holes in the walls of places that held adult dancing; modern day night clubs; just to be amazed at the DJs wheeling in the
Campbell spent his early childhood living in a city named Trenchtown, in the same public housing that produced many other prominent world figures such as Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, and Alton Ellis. Campbell’s father had a good job in Jamaica; a job that paid him enough money to be able to move to a house with their own front and back yard, but it was in the public housing in Trenchtown where Clive would get his first taste of the beats he emulated as a DJ in the Bronx, New York. Clive would spy through windows and holes in the walls of places that held adult dancing; modern day night clubs; just to be amazed at the DJs wheeling in the
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