Hip Hop
February 1, 2009 by The Art Fanatic
Filed under Entertainment
Hip-hop may truly be seen as a type of poetry. Things that make what hip hop is more than just music, it is a form of expression, spoken words, a lifestyle and a mind set. Self-expression and being a part of a community at the same time can intersect with each other through slang, music, dress, and a world view.
Hip-hop has four essential elements: break dancing, graffiti, emceeing (rapping) and DJ-ing. These elements have been the cornerstones of the hip-hop movement since its inception in the late 1970s, and they are absolutely immovable.
The roots of Hip-hop dance can be found in African influenced musical arrangments. Gospel, folk, blues, jazz as well as R&B music occupy a branch of the tree, along with calypso, salsa, soca, ska, reggae as well as other Afro-Caribbean forms. The beats, whether instrumental or a repeated chorus, are the bedrock with the main voice rapping over it. Mixing and scratching methods on vinyl records was a product of extended drum breaks. Hip-hop has hungered after commercial feasilibility right from the middle 90s.
As long as there are male youth around there will always be hip-hop music. The existance of people and their expressions towards the beat, the hip-hop form will remain as it is. You cannot blame Hip-Hop when people live their lives the way they want to. Where on the contrary the vast load of violence on tv and in movies does’t get any blame. Hip hop may be or may not be a subculture but when people feel they have no place in the main culture of their community, they develop their own identity and music such as hip hop.
Hip-hop has to be “hard,” it has to be “from the streets”; it’s about beats, not melody, about sampling and reconstituting music, not composing it from scratch. Above all, it has to be built around its vocal component, rapping, and the basic motifs to which all rappers return — boasts, disses, clever analogies.
Men have traditionally been the main force in the hip-hop genre. As it is a mirror of city life and struggle, old hip-hop artists were forced to keep a specific amount of chauvanism so as to let urban communities accept them.
Hip-hop culture has the unique ability to unify along with entrepreneurship, activism, creativity and innovation that draws young people from all over the world. Barak Obama went beyond race and politics to exhibit a deep, heartfelt connection with the ideals of the hip-hop culture. America will take hip-hop as their inevitable form of music. The well known in music along with rappers and dj’s will be together. A general worldview can be seen through the eyes of hip-hop, from the shoes you wear to your voting choices or your thoughts on race.
Even rap has detectable features that are always present in any rap music, but though there are common elements between rap and hip-hop during DJ-ing as well as in emceeing, rap has introduced new features that are unique. In rap videos and songs, crime and violence have become staples. Rap is considered to be a part of hip hop which frankly speaking is nothing but selling out and shitting on it as well. Rapping evolved from hip-hop but it was not an easy process with the fans.
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