The birth of hip hop

Hip-Hop music, also known as hip hop or rap music, is a genre of music that developed in the United States of America in the 1970s. The music consists of a beat, with is a loop of music like a drum solo, it can be just a beat or there can be added a special form of singing to it called

Origins

The Hip-Hop music and culture formed during the 1970s when block parties became extremely popular in New York City, particularly among the young people in the Bronx. Where the DJs began taking vinyl discs and isolating breaks of the song and playing them in a loop, this technique was introduced into New York by immigrants from Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean, including DJ Kool Herc also known father of Hip-H short, Dj kool Herc and other DJs began using two discs instead of one, by doing this they could extend the break. DJs such as Grand wizzard Theodore, or Grandmaster Flash, refined and developed the use of breakbeats, including cutting and scratching. K H T U “ DJs were releasing records where they would rap to beats.

Rapping

Rapping, also known as MCing, is one of the five elements of Hip-Hop culture, the other four being: Bboying, Graffiti, DJing and Beatboxing. Rapping is a vocal style in which the artist speaks lyrically and thythmically, generally to an instrumental beat. DJ Kool Herc and Coke La Rock influenced rapping and therefore also overall Hip-Hop culture by rapping simple poetry verses over music breaks, or beats