Hip Hop music
Elements of hip hop :
Rapping, DJing, breakdancing, graffiti

Hip hop music is a style of popular music. It is composed of two main elements : rapping (also known as MC’ing) and DJing ; along with breakdancing and graffiti, these are the four components of hip hop, a cultural movement which began among African Americans and Latinos in New York City in the early 1970s. The term rap is sometimes used synonymously with hip hop music, though it is also used to refer specifically to the practice of rapping, which is just one component of hip hop.

Most typically, hip hop 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. Along with the rapper a DJ or a live band plays a 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.

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.

It also began its spread across the world. In the 1990s, a form called gangsta rap became a major part of American music, causing significant controversy over lyrics which were perceived as promoting violence, promiscuity, drug use and misogyny. Nevertheless, by the beginning of the 2000s, hip hop was a staple of popular music charts and was being performed in many styles across the world.

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hip hop, by erick diaz aka aby tbb [2010-01-07 17:10:41]

peace love & respect !!! the word break dancing is not the true name of our dance !!! our dance original name is rocking them b.boying ...break dancing consist of the following dance.. popping , locking , rocking/b.boying & free styling.. my name is aby the original concrete rocker of the bronx boys rocking crew est.1975 for more true history hit me up !! it would be an honor !! the 4 elements of hip-hop in order is as follow graffiti,d.jaying,rocking & mceeing....

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