Hip Hop
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Hip Hop or Rap is a cultural and musical movement popular among Afro-americans. Wiggers and Hispanic Mestizos have taken up this culure. It started in New York City in the 1970s.
[edit] Elements of Hip Hop
- Rapping
- Breakdancing
- Graffiti
[edit] Rap Music
Typically, hip hop music consists of one or more rappers who chant semi-autobiographic tales, often relating to a fictionalized counterpart, in an intensely rhythmic lyrical form, making abundant use of techniques like assonance, alliteration, and rhyme. Though rap may be performed a capella, it is more common for the rapper to be accompanied by a DJ or a live band providing an appropriate beat. This beat is often from the percussion of a different song, usually rock, funk, or soul, and is sometimes sampled. In addition to the beat, other sounds are often sampled, synthesized, or performed. Though rap is usually an integral component of hip hop music, instrumental and non-rap Electro acts such as Planet Patrol are also defined as hip hop music groups.
Hip hop arose in New York City when DJs began isolating the percussion break from funk or disco songs. The role of the emcee (MC) arose to introduce the DJ and the music, and to keep the audience excited. The MCs began by speaking between songs, giving exhortations to dance, greetings to audience members, jokes and anecdotes. Eventually, this practice came to be more stylized, and was known as rapping. By 1979, hip hop had become a commercially recorded music genre, and began to enter the American mainstream. And also began its spread across the world.
Gangsta rap is a subgenre of hip hop, which developed during the 1980s. After the popularity of Dr. Dre's The Chronic in 1992, gangsta rap became the most commercially lucrative subgenre of hip-hop. The subject matter inherent in gangsta rap has caused a great deal of controversy. Criticism has come from both right wing and left wing commentators, and religious leaders, who have accused the genre of violence, anti-white violence, profanity, promiscuity, misogyny, and materialism.
Gangsta rappers often defend themselves by claiming that they are describing the reality of inner-city life, and that they are only adopting a character, like an actor playing a role, which behaves in ways that they may not necessarily endorse. Some Afro-american commentators have criticized it as analogous to black minstrel shows and blackface performance, in which performers – both black and white – were made up to look African American, acted in a stereotypically uncultured and ignorant manner for the entertainment of white audiences.
Hip Hop is often considered decadent and degenerate because many Hip Hopers openly propagate consumation of drugs and low moral standards. Black Hip Hopers also often snub White people, or even suggest their extermination.
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