Hip Hop History
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Hip-Hop History
Nowadays if someone to give a definition of "rap", they are likely to state that it's the reciting of rhymes to the best of music. It's a form of expression that finds its roots imbedded deep within ancient African culture and oral tradition. Throughout history here in America there has always been some form of verbal acrobatics or jousting involving rhymes with in the Afro-American community. Signifying, testifying, shining of the Titanic, the dozens of school yard rhymes, prison jail house rhymes, and double butch jump rope rhymes are some of the names and ways that various forms of rap that have manifested. Today I am going to tell where hip-hop started, how it got started, and who started it
Kool Herc, a young Jamaican who moved to the Bronx when he was a young DJ, originally started hip-hop. Other dj's/ performers that helped Kool Herc's new style get going were Lovebug, Hollywood, James Brown, George Clinton, Marvin Gaye, and Sly Stone. They started getting gigs in the local dance clubs and discos. Their styles began by having two copies of the same record then playing them on two different turntables. They would switch from one turntable to the other, repeating in a selective groove. The people they preformed for would yell out things like "Thro your hands in the air, and wav'em like ya just don't care"...