History

In the 1970s, an underground urban movement known as "Hip Hop" began to develop in the South Bronx in New York City. It focused on rap music (or MCing), break-beats, and house parties. Jamaican-born DJ Clive "Kool Herc" Campbell is the main creator of hip hop music or we can say the father of hip hop music. Beginning at Kool Herc's home in a high-rise apartment, the movement later spread across the entire borough.

                                    Rap—the rhythmic spoken delivery of rhymes and wordplay, delivered over a beat or without accompaniment is derived from Jamaican-style toasting. The basic contents of hip hop music is boasting raps, rival posses, uptown throw-downs, and political commentary. These were all present in Trinidadian music as long ago as the 1800s, though they did not reach the form of commercial recordings until the 1920s and 1930s. When rock steady and reggae bands looked to make their music a form of national and even international Black resistance, they took Calypso's example. Calypso itself, like Jamaican music, moved back and forth between the predominance of boasting and toasting songs packed with 'slackness' and sexual innuendo and a more topical, political, 'conscious' style.

                            Street gangs were prevalent in the South Bronx who were below poverty, and much of the graffiti, rapping, and b-boying at these parties were all artistic variations of the competition and ones upmanship of street gangs. Sensing that gang members' often violent urges could be turned into creative ones, Afrika Bambaataa founded the Zulu Nation, a loose confederation of street-dance crews, graffiti artists, and rap musicians. By the late 1970s, the culture had gained media attention, with Billboard magazine printing an article titled "B Beats Bombarding Bronx", commenting on the local phenomenon and mentioning influential figures such as Kool Herc.

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