In the late 80s, a new style of political hip hop developed when groups like Public Enemy began demanding political change and an end to injustice and racism. & Rakim released Paid In Full, one of hip hop's finest albums on which Rakim raps over Eric's sample-heavy beats. It had a slow funk groove with melodic synthesizer riffs and the raps were about social issues like poverty, crime and the stress of living in a dangerous city.īy the late 80s, many hip hop beats were being made in a studio with drum machines, synthesizers and samples from old funk and disco records. Most of these songs were about having fun, but in 1982 Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five released The Message, an early example of socially-conscious hip hop. Hip hop music was only performed live at first, but in 1979 a hip hop single called Rapper's Delight by The Sugarhill Gang was released, and to everyone's surprise it became a top-ten hit worldwide.Īfter the success of Rapper's Delight, many other hip hop records were released like Kurtis Blow's The Breaks and Afrika Bambaataa's Planet Rock. MCs also began improving their raps by using more complex rhymes and by developing flow, or the ability to rap with a good sense of rhythm and a natural flowing style. As the competition grew, DJs began improving their beats by using techniques like sampling short drum breaks and scratching. Carus / CC BY-SA 3.0 Old School Hip HopĪs rapping became more popular, more DJ and MC duos formed. Image: New York rapper Joey Badda$$ performing at Splash! festival 2013. Some MCs tried to be more entertaining by talking in time to the beat of the music and using rhymes, and by doing this they invented rapping. The MC would introduce the DJ and encourage everyone to dance and have a good time. Sometimes they'd also deejay at free block parties in their neighbourhoods where they'd play funk and disco tracks non-stop and ask a friend to act as their MC. Many of these young people were unemployed, but some found work as DJs in discos where they learned deejaying techniques like how to use two turntables and a DJ mixer to play records non-stop. It was created in the poorest districts of New York City by African American and Latino teenagers as part of a hip hop scene that also produced breakdancing and graffiti art.
When hip hop music first developed in the late 1970s, not many people knew about it. For other genres see Popular Music Genres.
This page looks at the vocabulary of Hip Hop Music through its history, people and songs.
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