The Hip Hop revolution in music and culture 15 Articles

by Andrew Witherspoon

Hip-Hop garnered its immediate roots form elements of reggae music and Jamaican dance hall toasting along with R&B, disco, and Funk. In the early 1970's, Dj Kool Herc from Kingston Jamaica moved to the South Bronx, NewYork...read more

by Quixano

Hip Hop came about through young kids in the streets of New York partying to sound systems, from new technology, from the electronic experimentation of Kraftwerk and other bands in the 70s. It fused elements from previous ...read more

by Benjamin Norris

What can the study of a particular music scene tell us about communication and society? The flourishing of a new musical style and its acceptance and devotion from an audience is the result of many factors. The cultur...read more

by Olha Romaniuk

Alleged fledging MC laziness - lyrics that don't make sense and flashy lifestyles have all contributed to a decline in main street appreciation for hip hop. One music artist, Nas, came out with an album entitled "Hip Hop I...read more

by Monkee Jones

Let me start by stating that I am a Hip-Hop hypocrite. I will shortly turn 30 years old which in Hip-Hop years makes me middle aged. I reminisce on the days when Hip-Hop had to fulfill one of two roles, enlighten or move t...read more

by Michelle Ann Newton

Music is the air I breathe. For more than two decades, I have been a writer of both lyric and song, lived and loved both producing and performing R&B and Hip-Hop music. My life's work is, entertainment. The Hip-Hop ...read more

by SocheFab

The Hip Hop revolution in music and culture is an ongoing phenomenon. The culture has caused corporate America to change, society to change and the world to take notice of the sound of inner city urban America and its you...read more

by Love Smith

I am a die hard fan of hip hop music. I have loved Rap and R&B ever since I was old enough to understand music. Hip Hop is my favorite genre. To me,I feel that it is another form of poetry. Rap is poetry set to a beat t...read more

by Christopher Kendalls

Much has been said over the differences in hip-hop, and rap music. First off, as far as being a movement, or a revolution, the hip-hop culture began as an early counter-cultural movement in the late seventies as a respons...read more

by Benjamin Herrington

Is Hip Hop Really Dying? This year is marks 30th anniversary of the release of hip hop's first official record; Sugar Hill Gang's "Rapper's delight." Prior to that release, hip hop was an underground culture that grew f...read more

by Monesha Bartley

Rap: Please Turn it Down! These are the true "American Idols" or one may say "Global Idols". These idols break new trends in and are looked up too from all different ethic backgrounds. The idols t...read more

by Elizabeth Martin

Music will never die. Hip hop music, like all genres of music, will never end. It will simply evolve and branch out. Some will be good. Some will not. But that's all personal preference, which is what music has always ...read more

by Patrick James

First things first. There is nothing more impressive than when you see articles, that have a weak connection at best, copied and pasted verbatim from other websites to here, just so someone can end up in that oh-so coveted...read more

by Levonne Williams

Some do not understand the power of hip hop. Rap music is unique because it is the one form of music where words and rhythm meet. You don't have to sing, you don't have to play an instrument to become a star. I think that ...read more

by J. Alexander Jeffrey

An epidemic- I was watching Mtv the other day, as I often do because I'm hip and "with it", when I noticed something. We have an epidemic on our hands! Evidently there are haters Everywhere! I don't think I heard ...read more