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 should each occupy a branch of the tree, along with calypso, salsa, soca, ska, reggae along with other Afro-Carribean forms. The atrists of hip-hop put their own voices over redundant phrases in the music tracks. Mixing and Scratching methods were first introduced thanks to the invention of extended drum breaks. Hip-hop has been struggling to be accepted by the mainstream community since the middle 1990′s. The career of Jay-Z was built from looking for listeners in the mainstream like me, and it’s a pity that his music was harmed because of it.
Hip Hop is a young man’s game and by that nature can never cease to exist. As long as their are people and something to say over a beat, hip hop will exist. Hip hop is not the blame for anything as people live their lives the way they choose to; their is a shit load of violence in movies and tv, but that never gets the blame. Hip hop is not necessarily a subculture. The reason for distinguishing hip hop as a surrogate culture is because it substitutes many of the elements ineffectively provided by the dominant society.
Hip-hop has to be “hard,” it ought to be “from the streets”; it’s about beats, not tune, it is the sampling and reconstituting of music, not composing it from scratch. Hip-hop music has many elements but the music is all built around the rapper’s voice and his themes-using imaginative wordplay, establishing his territory, taking on the world.
Hip-Hop has historically existed as a male-dominated industry. Being a reflection of urban life and struggle, past Hip-Hop artists have been forced to maintain a certain level of masculinity in order to be accepted by their urban communities.
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.
Hip-hop music was the beginning and rap music has taken some of hip-hop’s basic elements, like DJing, but added its own unique traits to evolve into a separate genre. In rap videos and songs, crime and violence have become staples. Hip hop is the main genre but rap has become a problematic part of that genre.