Evolution_Of_Hip-hop

Evolution Of Hip-hop When you hear the phrase “hip-hop” often music, dancing and rapping come to mind. Hip-hop is all of that and much more. Hip-hop is a culture. When you look up culture in the dictionary it is defined as “the concepts, skills, arts, instruments, etc. of a given people in a given period.” To be more specific hip-hop is a combination of graffiti, break dancing, DJing, and rapping (also known as MCing) that creates its own lifestyle and is continuously evolving. Most of these forms of art were originated in New York City. In the early 1970’s hip-hop was born on the crime-ridden streets of south Bronx. Gifted teenagers with plenty of imagination but little money began to forge a new style. Hip-hop back then was a product of pure ingenuity; extracting rhythms and melodies from existing records and mixing them up with poetry chronicling hip-hop, style, bronx, new, york, south, own, kool, herc, given, dj, culture, west, streets, rapping, people, over, dancing, ballroom, yet, wild, whole, teenagers, taking, t-connection, subways, started, spread, sporting, specific, songs, skills, scene, savoy, roxy