Hip Hop

Hip hop culture (or hip-hop) is a cultural movement that formed during the late 1960s among African American youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City. It is characterized by four distinct elements: rap music (oral),  "DJing" (electronic), b-boying (physical) and graffiti art (visual). These four are the foundation elements of hip hop culture. The term is often used in a restrictive fashion as synonymous only with the oral practice of rap music.
                           The origin of the hip hop culture stems from the block parties of the Ghetto Brothers, when they plugged in the amps of their instruments and speakers into the lampposts on 163rd Street and  used music to break down racial barriers, and from DJ Kool Herc at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, where Herc mixed samples of existing records with his own shouts to the crowd and dancers. Kool Herc is credited as the "father" of hip hop.
                             Hip hop is simultaneously a new and old phenomenon; the importance of sampling to the art form means that much of the culture has revolved around the idea of updating classic recordings, attitudes, and experiences for modern audiences—called "flipping" within the culture. It follows in the footsteps of earlier American musical genres like blues, salsa, jazz, and rock and roll in having become one of the most practiced genres of music in existence worldwide, and it also takes some inspiration  from soul music, funk, and rhythm and blues.