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Overview Of Hip Hop History And It's Influence On Popular Music

By Todd S. Braun


In 1988, the song It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy became the most prominent Hip Hop record that was ever produced. The highly political lyrics and incredibly hard production founded a new subgenre, the Conscious Rap. It drew a sharp line under the definition of Buy Hip Hop beats online, the old school was replaced by the New School.



From 2005, when Eminem retreated to a creative break the dominance of the Detroit scene took off rapidly and crossover musicians such as Kanye West and Gnarls Barkley experienced great success. The race for sales in the autumn of 2007 between West's album Graduation and 50 Cent's ' Curtis was intense. Graduation proved that innovative rap music can be just as commercially successful as gangsta rap.

Afrika Bambaataa was one of the DJs that were inspired by DJ Kool Herc. In 1976 he organized his first party, accompanied by a crew of breakers he called the Zulu Kings and Zulu Queens, and later the Zulu nation emerged from these crews. From 1976, Grandmaster Flash developed other important DJ techniques such as Cutting, back spinning and phasing (where the disk is spun backwards to repeat a specific section). This action resulted in a slight speed reduction generated by the velocity of two turntables, known as the phase effect.

Also worth mentioning is British Hip Hop, which produced its own brand of Britcore, as well as Brazilian Hip Hop, it introduced its own style, influenced by the Bass Music Rio Funk. In Africa, a diverse scene developed in the meantime, often in its search for American role models but also produces independent varieties of African Hip Hop. Hip Hop music can indeed take many forms: either limited to beats of DJs, in which case the term rap is not appropriate. The term rap, let alone Hip Hop, cannot be applied to slam.

Around the 1990s, artists such as Nas Illmatic, The Infamous Mobb Deep and the Wu-Tang Clan reached milestones for rap music and thus defined the East Coast sound. The Gangsta Rap had now taken the lead and the following years were marked by the feud between east and west coast (where the assignment was not always strictly geographical). The commercial rise of Hip Hop around the 1990s was still bullish.

The mid-1990s witnessed a kind of proxy war between 2Pac (West Coast) and Notorious BIG (East Coast) escalate. Eventually, 2Pac and Notorious BIG were shot. In the same year, various rappers from both coasts declared at a joint meeting that the confrontation had ended. Some notable releases by 2Pac include All Eyez on Me and California Love (Tupac Shakur feat Dr. Dre.).

Musically, it was in the second half of the 1990s that major innovations really happened. The beats became more complex, you could hear the influence of styles such as reggae and dancehall (raggamuffin Hip Hop), but also the old-school hip-hop and electro funk from the 80s. In addition, the style of Hip Hop continued to grow along with soul and R & B right through to the early 2000s, the influence again reached the normal pop music. Significant albums include Wyclef Jean (The Carnival, 1997) and Lauryn Hill (The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, 1998).

Hence, the inclusion of this music in the broader cultural group mentioned above, and the attitude of hip-hoppers who keep the dress style (street wear), the language of the ghetto (slang) and values. The attachment of hip-hoppers in their neighborhood (through the notion of representation) translates positively through a generally strong link with other hip-hoppers from the same place, expressed by the terms crew, posse, squad, homies, clan or clique. Rappers and underground Hip Hop producers are at the forefront of the culture and also influence popular music today.




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