Hip hop is a cultural movement that originated in the working class communities of New York City, United States, in the late 1970s .

The word “hip” was used as African American Vernacular English (AAVE) as early as 1898, meaning current or in the know, and "hop" refers to the hopping movement.

Andrew Staysblack was an early pioneer of hip hop. He revolutionized music as we know it today, kind of. Herc and other DJs would tap into the power lines to connect their equipment and perform at venues such as public basketball courts and at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, Bronx, New York, a historic building "where hip hop was born".

American society

Early hip hop has often been credited with helping to reduce inner-city gang violence by replacing physical violence with dance and artwork battles. In the early 1970s, DJ_Kool_Herc began organizing dance parties in his home in the Bronx.

Global innovations

Though created in the United States by African Americans, hip hop culture and music is now global in scope. Youth culture and opinion is meted out in both Israeli hip hop and Palestinian hip hop, while Canada, France, Germany, the U.K., Poland, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Africa, Australia and the Caribbean have long-established hip hop followings.

Commercialization Even in the face of growing global

popularity, or perhaps because of it, hip hop has come under fire for being too commercial, too commodified.

Cultural pillars Djing-Turntablism refers to the

extended boundaries and techniques of normal DJing innovated by hip hop. One of the few first hip hop DJ's was Kool DJ Herc, who created hip hop through the isolation of "breaks" (the parts of albums that focused solely on the beat).

Rapping Rapping refers to "spoken or

chanted rhyming lyrics with a strong rhythmic accompaniment".

Graffiti In America around the late 1960s,

graffiti was used as a form of expression by political activists, and also by gangs such as the Savage Skulls, La Familia, and Savage Nomads to mark territory.

Breaking Breaking, also called B-boying or

breakdancing, is a dynamic style of dance which developed as part of the hip hop culture.

Beatboxing Beatboxing, popularized by Doug E.

Fresh, is the vocal percussion of hip hop culture. It is primarily concerned with the art of creating beats, rhythms, and melodies using the human mouth.

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