Hip Hop became really popular in the mid to late nineteen hundreds and still is very popular to this day. Hip Hop has developed an art that reflects culture as well as express social, political and economic situations in many peoples lives, especially the youth. Music started off with drumming. Through drumming, communities were able to communicate, and the use of drums was also utilized in ceremonies and rituals in African American lives. Drumming was the base of African music in the Diaspora. After drumming, many other music styles started developing throughout Africa and then expanding around the world. Hip Hop is a music style from African American descent that has broadened universally over the years and brought many new customs into society
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Hip Hop is seen everywhere, in movies, shows, soap operas, fashion, works of art, and hundreds of other forms that have been embodied in modern society. According to Carl Taylor and Virgil Taylor in Hip Hop is Now: An Evolving Youth Culture, “Hip Hop culture has a proclivity towards violence and self destruction” (210-213) and they believe it is the most disturbing aspect of Hip Hop culture. The media and parents would see Rap and Hip Hop as if it was promoting gang, violence, drug use, and other negative things so they saw this music as a destructive influence on the young. At one point in history Hip Hop lingo did regard acts of violence, heard frequently in the streets by young individuals. As Hip Hop grew it started to become known as Rap. Rap music described many troubles that led to its growth and expansion. These problems involved police brutality, violence, teen pregnancy, and drug addiction (Michael Eric Dyson, 402). For example, N.W.A. (a popular Hip Hop group from Compton) music reflected the brutalities that most poor black youth in Los Angeles lived. These declarations reflected real life situations of many colored young people stuck in the drug game and in gangs. Alternative rap rises in popularity, with movies, associated with famous rappers and hip hop artists lives, hitting theaters
Hip Hop is seen everywhere, in movies, shows, soap operas, fashion, works of art, and hundreds of other forms that have been embodied in modern society. According to Carl Taylor and Virgil Taylor in Hip Hop is Now: An Evolving Youth Culture, “Hip Hop culture has a proclivity towards violence and self destruction” (210-213) and they believe it is the most disturbing aspect of Hip Hop culture. The media and parents would see Rap and Hip Hop as if it was promoting gang, violence, drug use, and other negative things so they saw this music as a destructive influence on the young. At one point in history Hip Hop lingo did regard acts of violence, heard frequently in the streets by young individuals. As Hip Hop grew it started to become known as Rap. Rap music described many troubles that led to its growth and expansion. These problems involved police brutality, violence, teen pregnancy, and drug addiction (Michael Eric Dyson, 402). For example, N.W.A. (a popular Hip Hop group from Compton) music reflected the brutalities that most poor black youth in Los Angeles lived. These declarations reflected real life situations of many colored young people stuck in the drug game and in gangs. Alternative rap rises in popularity, with movies, associated with famous rappers and hip hop artists lives, hitting theaters