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How much up and down movement is involved in hip hop?

Hip hop is both a cultural movement and a genre of music developed in New York City in the 1970s. The four historic "elements" of hip hop are: MCing (rapping), DJing, urban inspired art/tagging (graffiti), and b-boying (or breakdancing). The most known "extended" elements are beatboxing, hip hop fashion, and hip hop slang. When hip hop music developed in the 1970s, it was originally based around DJs who created rhythmic beats by "scratching" a record on one turntable while looping the break (an upbeat drum and rhythm phrase of a song often found in soul and funk music) of various records on another, which was later joined by the "rapping" (a rhythmic style of chanting) of MCs.



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05-09-2008 09:44
jaxon8 wrote:

rapping

Contrary to popular belief, rapping did not start around 1970. When I was a youngster, the black kids did what they called jiveing. It was nothing but rapping. One of my black friends did the following a lot. " My name is Willie D, the girls all wild for me, when I goes to town, de all come around, just wanting to be, with the 1 and only Willie D. and he could go on forever with it. They would have friendly competitions to see who could come up with the funniest or the best. This was in the mid 50's and from what I understood from them it wasn't new then.

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