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Documented stories of Hip Hop music as told by various artists, producers and researchers in the field. Explore the origins and evolution of Hip Hop culture through a media-mashup of texts, audios, videos, books and web resources.

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Histories

roots, genesis

Breaks and Beats 

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Hip Hop Music - The Wikipedia Story 

Hip hop music is a musical genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rap which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latin Americans. The term rap music is often used synonymously with hip hop music.

Rapping, also referred to as MCing or emceeing, is a vocal style in which the performer speaks rhythmically and in rhyme, generally to a beat. Beats are traditionally generated from portions of other songs by a DJ, or sampled from portions of other songs by a producer,[http://www.samplesdb.com/ SamplesDB - Internet's Largest Music Samples Database] though synthesizers, drum machines, and live bands are also used, especially in newer music. Rappers may perform poetry which they have written ahead of time, or improvise rhymes on the spot with or without a beat. Though rap is usually an integral component of hip hop music, DJs sometimes perform and record alone, and many instrumental acts are also defined as hip hop.

Beat This! A Hip Hop History - Various Videos 

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Freedom of Expression 

Hip-hop thrived in the 1970s long before the record industry paid attention; this also had a lot to do with the recent affordability of cassette recorders. During this time, the only way to hear hip-hop music was at live performances in South Bronx parks, public-school gyms, small nightclubs, or on boom boxes. DJs and crews sold dubbed copies of their live performances, and their fans copied these cassettes-passing them on from friend to friend, acquaintance to acquaintance. "Around 1977," said DJ Disco Wiz, "we used to record all our battles. Every party we had we always had a boom box on the side, and we used to record what we did and who we did it to. And those things used to sell-we used to sell them in high school." Jazzy Jay, an MC in Afrika Bambaataa's Soulsonic Force, boasted, "I mean, we had tapes that went platinum before we was even involved with the music industry." An exaggerating Grandmaster Flash said that tapes of his performances sold at "a buck a minute."

Hip-hop prospered because of the wide diffusion of bootlegged tapes. This is true for hip-hop even today, because record companies frequently leak exclusive tracks to popular DJs who make and sell illegal mix-tapes. Giving away tracks that float around the underground mix-tape circuit is a way of promoting up-and-coming artists and building buzz for an established act's new record. "At first," said Rob Love, an executive at the seminal hip-hop label Def Jam, "I was anti-mix-tape, because I thought it was stealing and I thought that the resale of [the recordings] did not benefit the artist." But Love changed his mind when he realized mix-tapes were extremely effective promotional tools; the success of mix-tape favorite (and others) demonstrates this. Even Metallica, in the early 1980s, directly benefited from the unauthorized trading of their tapes, an irony that would rear its ugly head years later.

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Classic Hip Hop Tracks 

Recommended Hip Hop music on CD and MP3.

Raising Hell

Raising Hell

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Run-D.M.C.

Run-D.M.C.

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The Last Poets

The Last Poets

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Jam-Master Jay 

Jason Mizell Founder and DJ of Run-D.M.C.

Jam Master Jay (RUN DMC) @ United DJ Mixing School Sydney, 1998.

This video was upload in tribute and to carry the legacy of one of the first DJs that showed to the 'world of pop music' that a DJ is a band and the turntable is a musical instrument. Jam Master Jay Lectured at our United DJ Mixing School in Sydney, 1998 and 3 years later formed the scratch academy in N.Y.C (The first DJ School in the U.S). He was fatally shot dead at his studio in Queens 2002 for reasons yet unresolved. RUN DMC and Jam Master Jay (R.I.P) was inducted into rock and roll hall of fame on 4th April 2009!! Please pay tribute and listen to his lecture on history of Hip Hop.. We will upload more segments of the lecture very soon.. email us at admin@djsunited.com.au with any feedback. One Love!

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Hip Hop Films 

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Scratch: Hip Hop DJ Documentary (DVD)

Scratch: Hip Hop DJ Documentary (DVD)

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The Freshest Kids - A History of the B-Boy (DVD)

The Freshest Kids - A History of the B-Boy (DVD)

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Beat Street

Beat Street

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Style Wars: Graffiti (DVD)

Style Wars: Graffiti (DVD)

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Tupac - Resurrection (Full Screen Edition DVD)

Tupac - Resurrection (Full Screen Edition DVD)

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Hip Hop Portals 

Encyclopedias and databases.
History of Hip Hop - Mahalo
Hand-selected links to articles and media focusing on historical developments, timelines, people, etc.
Hip-Hop Categories - Mahalo
Mahalo is a human-powered search engine. This page provides access to all categorized "Hip-Hop" search results. (Links to popular artists).
The Hip Hop Portal - Wikipedia
A useful entry-point to Wikipedia content on Hip Hop music and culture including articles, images and media.

Book Spotlight 

Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists

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Anthology of Hip Hop history with facts, trivia and lists for everything imaginable.

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Hip Hop Books 

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Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-hop Feminism Anthology by Gwendolyn D. Pough

Home Girls Make Some Noise!: Hip-hop Feminism Anthology by Gwendolyn D. Pough

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Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc

Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang, D.J. Kool Herc

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Remix Culture

sampling arts, cultural trends

Talking about Sampling 

Copyright Criminals Trailer

Copyright Criminals, a documentary about digital samplings head-on collision with copyright law, features many of hip-hop musics celebrated figures—including Public Enemy, De La Soul, the Beastie Boys, and Digital Underground—as well as emerging artists from record labels Definitive Jux, Rhymesayers, Ninja Tune, and more. The documentary also provides an in-depth look at artists who have been sampled, such as former James Brown drummer Clyde Stubblefield, as well as commentary by another highly sampled musician, funk legend George Clinton.

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Sampling Resources 

Social Media

auctions, blogs, bookmarks, tweets

eBay - Hip Hop Culture 

Current auctions for all kinds of hip=hop related items, some new, some rare. Updated continuously 24/7.

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Blog Buzz 

Fresh hip-hop conversations in the blogosphere...
Jay-Z Crowned Highest Earning Hip-Hop Star
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And now her husband, rapper Jay-Z, is sitting at the top of the ?Hip-Hop Cash Kings List,? earning an estimated $35 million over the past 12 months. A far cry from the $82 million he pulled in last year, but still pretty damn good, ...
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July 9, 2009 - Dr. J-Water EverPresent Ink Records is an independent label out of New York. Their artists record music in the Hip-Hop, R&B , Reggae, and.

Bling for Blogs 

Hip Hop Tweets 

Twitter comversations via Summize, updated hourly.

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Twitter Music Lenses 

YouTube Videos

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Hip-Hop Videos 

TimeTube: Hip Hop Timeline <- Click to view videos as events on a timeline.
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Dead Prez "Hip Hop"

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Beatmaking Videos 

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Breakdancing Videos 

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Breakdance

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DJ Videos 

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Viral Videos 

Images

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Hip-Hop Images 

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Rapper Images 

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Brithop

British developments

Ruthless Rap Assassins 

Manchester's Ruthless Rap Assassins were one of the first British hip hop crews to sign a major label record deal with EMI in the late 1980's. Under the guidance of DJ/producer Greg Wilson

Ruthless Rap Assassins - Justice (Just Us)

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British Hip Hop - The Wikipedia Story 

British hip hop is a genre of music, and a culture that covers a variety of styles of hip hop music made in the United Kingdom. It is sometimes known as Brithop, and is generally classified as one of a number of styles of urban music. British hip hop was originally influenced by the New York hip hop scene, with British rappers often adopting American accents in the early years.

In 2003, The Times described British hip hop's broad ranging approach:

"...UK rap' is a broad sonic church, encompassing anything made in Britain by musicians informed or inspired by hip-hop's possibilities, whose music is a response to the same stimuli that gave birth to rap in New York in the mid-Seventies.''

Monie Love 

Monie Love was one of the first British female rappers to emerge during the 1980's. She developed a succesful career as a musician and radio presenter in the USA.

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British Hip-Hop Slang 

Dizzee Rascal's lessons in British hip-hop slang. Learn the meaning and use of words like Bubbles, Blix and Moot...

The DL: Hip Hop Slang Dizzee Rascal - Lesson 1

In our ongoing effort to advance international diplomacy and understanding, we at the DL Show are proud to bring you the first in a series of videos to help you communicate more effectively with our Briton brethren. Put your learning caps on, because class is now in session with Professor Dizzee Rascal. Sit up straight and take the gum out of your mouth -- it's time for your first lesson in British hip-hop slang.

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