Hip hop or hip-hop is a subculture and art movement developed in South Bronx in New York City during the late 1970’s. While the term hip hop is often used to refer exclusively to hip hop music (also called rap), hip hop is characterized by nine elements, of which hip hop music is only four elements (rapping, DJ’ing, beatboxing and breaking). Afrika Bambaataa of the hip hop collective Zulu Nation outlined the pillars of hip hop culture, coining the terms: “rapping” (also called MC’ing or emceeing), a rhythmic vocal rhyming style (orality); DJing (and turntablism), which is making music with record players and DJ mixers (aural/sound and music creation); b-boying/b-girling/breakdancing (movement/dance); and graffiti art. Other elements of hip hop subculture and arts movements beyond the main four are: hip hop culture and historical knowledge of the movement (intellectual/philosophical); beatboxing, a percussive vocal style; street entrepreneurship; hip hop language; and hip hop fashion and style, among others.
Culture
DJ’ing and turntablism, MCing/rapping, breakdancing, graffiti art, and beatboxing are the creative outlets that collectively make up hip hop culture and its revolutionary aesthetic. Like the blues, these arts were developed by African American communities to enable people to make a statement, whether political or emotional and participate in community activities. These practices spread globally around the 1980’s as fans could “make it their own” and express themselves in new and creative ways in music, dance and other arts.
DJ’ing
DJ’ing and turntablism are the techniques of manipulating sounds and creating music and beats using two or more phonograph turntables (or other sound sources, such as tapes, CDs or digital audio files) and a DJ mixer that is plugged into a PA system. One of the first few hip hop DJ’s was Kool DJ Herc, who created hip hop in the 1970’s through the isolation and extending of “breaks” (the parts of albums that focused solely on the percussive beat). In addition to developing Herc’s techniques, DJ’s Grandmaster Flowers, Grandmaster Flash, Grand Wizzard Theodore, and Grandmaster Caz made further innovations with the introduction of “scratching”, which has become one of the key sounds associated with hip hop music. There are many DJ’ing championship one of very famous is DMC World DJ Championship
MCing
Rapping (also known as emceeing, MC’ing, spitting (bars), or just rhyming) refers to “spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment”. Rapping typically features complex wordplay, rapid delivery, and a range of “street slang”, some of which is unique to the hip hop subculture. While rapping is often done over beats, either done by a DJ, a beatboxer, it can also be done without accompaniment. It can be broken down into different components, such as “content”, “flow” (rhythm and rhyme), and “delivery”. Rapping is distinct from spoken word poetry in that it is performed in time to the beat of the music. The use of the word “rap” to describe quick and slangy speech or witty repartee long predates the musical form. MC’ing is a form of expression that is embedded within ancient African culture and oral tradition as throughout history verbal acrobatics or jousting involving rhymes were common within the Afro-American community. Many Rappers have world record in different category where Eminem hold the Guinness world record for fastest rap
Graffiti
Graffiti is the most controversial of hip hop’s elements, as a number of the most notable graffiti pioneers say that they do not consider graffiti to be an element of hip hop, including Lady Pink, Seen, Blade, Fargo, Cholly Rock, Fuzz One, and Coco 144. Lady Pink says, “I don’t think graffiti is hip hop. Frankly I grew up with disco music. There’s a long background of graffiti as an entity unto itself,” and Fargo says, “There is no correlation between hip hop and graffiti, one has nothing to do with the other.” Hip hop pioneer Grandmaster Flash has also questioned the connection between hip hop and graffiti, saying, “You know what bugs me, they put hip hop with graffiti. How do they intertwine?
The relationship between graffiti and hip hop culture arises both from early graffiti artists engaging in other aspects of hip hop culture, Graffiti is understood as a visual expression of rap music, just as breaking is viewed as a physical expression.
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Breakdancing
Breaking, also called B-boying/B-girling or breakdancing, is a dynamic, rhythmic style of dance which developed as one of the major elements of hip hop culture. Like many aspects of hip hop culture, breakdance borrows heavily from many cultures, including 1930’s-era street dancing, Brazilian and Asian Martial arts, Russian folk dance, and the dance moves of James Brown, Michael Jackson, and California funk. Breaking took form in the South Bronx in the 1970’s alongside the other elements of hip hop. Breakdancing is typically done with the accompaniment of hip hop music playing on a boom box or PA system. There are four sub-elements of B-boying Top-rock, Bottom-rock, freeze and Power moves by combining these four a dancer said to be a B-boy. Many championship around the world which do promote Breakdancing and the very famous is BOTY (battle of the year)
Beatboxing
Beatboxing is the technique of vocal percussion, in which a singer imitates drums and other percussion instruments with her or his voice. It is primarily concerned with the art of creating beats or rhythms using the human mouth. The term beatboxing is derived from the mimicry of the first generation of drum machines, then known as beatboxes. It was first popularized by Doug E. Fresh. As it is a way of creating hip hop music, it can be categorized under the production element of hip hop, though it does sometimes include a type of rapping intersected with the human-created beat. It is generally considered to be part of the same “Pillar” of hip hop as DJ’ing—in other words, providing a musical backdrop or foundation for MC’s to rap over.
Beatboxers can create their beats just naturally, but many of the beatboxing effects are enhanced by using a microphone plugged into a PA system. This helps the beatboxer to make their beatboxing loud enough to be heard alongside a rapper, MC, turntablist, and other hip hop artists. Beatboxing was popular in the 1980’s with prominent artists like the Darren “Buffy, the Human Beat Box” Robinson of the Fat Boys and Biz Markie displaying their skills within the media. It declined in popularity along with b-boying in the late 1980’s, but has undergone a resurgence since the late 1990’s, marked by the release of “Make the Music 2000.” by Rahzel of The Roots. Beatboxing is major element of Hip-Hop culture many organisation do promote Beatboxing by organizing underground championships and also international championship
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