Hip-hop or rap music is an admired and famous style or genre of music in the US This well-known musical genre is made up of two components, rap and scratching. Rapping is also known as MCing and DJing, which is meant by audio mixing. These two main components combined with graffiti and break dance form the four core elements of hip-hop.
Hip-hop was started as a cultural movement by poor neighborhood youth, mostly Latino, Hispanic, and African American in New York City in the early 1970s. The word “rap” was derived in the sixties, from a slang word that meant conversation.
Hip-hop has two main historical eras, the old school hip-hop era of 1970-1985 and the golden age hip-hop era of 1985-1993. The golden age of hip-hop began only when it entered the mainstream of music and cemented the sounds of the West Coast and East Coast.
The origin of hip-hop music is from African American and West African music. The contributions of griots like The Last Poets, Jalal Mansur Nurriddin, and Gil Scott-Heron were important to the advent of hip-hop in the 1960s. Hip-hop had originally started in the Bronx. Funk and soul music was played a lot in blocky parts. At first, the DJs at these parties began to separate the drum breaks from the hit songs. They began to realize that these breaks were more entertaining and fun. This technique had become widespread in Jamaica and had spread considerably in the New York community through Jamaican immigrants.
Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash were the pioneers in the hip-hop industry and other DJs had extended the brief percussion interludes of funk records and created a more danceable sound. As a result, remixes became popular with the advent of mixing and scratching techniques. Many styles of hip-hop had developed in the golden age of hip-hop.
Today, hip-hop is enjoyed all over the world. Despite all the controversies created by hip-hop artists, they continue to grow in number. Hip-hop music is sold all over the world in stores and even online.