Influenced the World

Hip Hop has helped give the world a voice. Through hip hop peoples opinions and thoughts are being heard. Through the music people are living and fighting for what they believe in. Hip hop can be misunderstood as “trashy” music, which in some cases are true when they are about sex, drugs, crime, but in many other cases the music is about being heard by expressing themselves. It’s about listening to the message in the song, not so much about the beat and tone of voice. Hip hop unites people from all around the world. Hip Hop gives them something in common.

– Music – Fashion – Society (Dance, Art, Language) –

1970’s – Present

Hip Hop around the World

Music

Hip Hop originated in the 1970’s in South Bronx, New York City. Among Black and Latino ghetto. It was created to help keep kids off the streets.

The “father” of Hip Hop is DJ Kool Herc

• Hip Hop is characterized by four elements:
  Rap music (Oral)
  Turntablism or also called “DJing” (Aural)
  Breaking (Physical)
  Graffiti art (Visual)

A few world famous Hip Hop artists are:

• Nelly
• Jay Z
• 50 Cent
• Vanilla Ice
• Salt N Pepa
• Snoop Dogg

    

Fashion

Hip Hop has its own fashion trend and the hip hop fashion does not differ from country to country. If you are a true hip hopper you will be dressing as following: ž

• —Baggy Pant
• —Bright colors
• —Tee shirts
• —Caps
• —Gloves
• —Newest sneakers
• —Jersey’s
• —Coats
• —Flashy jewelry

This way of dressing influenced the fashion industry and spread around the world, between men and women.

žAlso, these hip hop trends have influenced societies around the world and in particular Latin/Hispanic societies (they are quite big on hip hop culture).

Society

Hip Hop has influenced many things in our society and the rest of the worlds society, such as language, dance and art.

Hip hop has changed the way people talk and use different slang.

A few of these slang words are:

– Cheese = Money

– Bounce = Leave, go

– Biscuit = Gun

– Whip = Car, Automobile

Most people who are not in the “Hip hop culture” would probably not understand the definition of most words used, but it is their language among each other.

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Hip Hop has also influenced dance, back in the day younger people would dance facing each other at Clubs but now it is more common to see them dancing front to back (The girl dancing with her back towards the guys front), this is also known as “Grinding”.

Breakdance was born through Hip Hop as well and it is one of the bigger and more popular form of dancing in Hip Hop. Breakdancing and grinding is nothing unfamiliar to the world, but not everyone might know that it originates from hip hop.

In the hip hop world art is a big deal too, art that is called “Graffiti”. It is mainly street art, drawings or writings that have been scribbled, scratched or spray painted on a wall or other surface in a public place.

New York, USA

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Cape Town, South Africa

New Delhi, India

Reference

Jordan Simmons

http://jordansimm.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-evolution-of-hip-hop-has-influenced.html

žCodrington, R. (n.d.). In the Beginning: Hip Hop’s Early Influences. Oxford AASC:. http://www.oxfordaasc.com/public/features/archive/0806/essay.jsp

YouTube.com – Hip Hop Around The World: Discovering Cultural Identity In The Classroom

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