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The story of Hip Hop music as told by various artists, producers and researchers in the field. Explore the origins and early development of Hip Hop through a mashup of hand-picked media resources including texts, videos, books, and websites.
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Kool Herc the Father of Hip Hop
Kool herc the origin of hip hop
Kool herc talking about the very early days of hip hop
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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."11Hip-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 50 Cent (and others) demonstrates this.12 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.
Reproduced from - Freedom of Expression: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity by Kimbrew McLeod licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Afrika Bambaataa and the Zulu Nation
Afrika Bambaataa - The beginning of the Zulu Nation
The man talks about the origin if his zulu nation
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Top Hip Hop Albums
Share great Hip Hop albums and vote for your favorites.
Jam-Master Jay
Jam Master Jay @ United DJ Mixing School (Sydney)
Jam Master Jay's Lecture at The United DJ Mixing School 1998
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Fresh Blog Posts about Hip Hop
- I Remember Hip-Hop
- note: Time to dig hip-hop. There is certain texture I like about hip-hop. The bare bone melody and c...
- disability and hip hop
- from leroy moore, fierce disabled hip hop artist and activist:. a. Krip-Hop will be apart of a docum...
- Above All Entertainment - Light Bar - May 16, 2008
- After Industrial Strenff was released with noizemob in 07 GUtta was quoted "The Rewind King" and ear...
- Video: Maino - Hi Hater
- New single from Maino's debut album, "If Tomorrow Comes" in stores September 30th!
Bling for your Blog
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Widget Finder - Find and Share Cool Gadgets for Desktops, Blogs, Mobiles and Social Spaces
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Feed your Space - Build your Blog - Pump up your PC - Widgets are tools that make it easy for you to customize your web page, desktop or mobile phone with cool new features. These mini-applications allow you to accessorize an...
Flickr Rappers
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Del.icio.us Hip Hop
- The Rub - Cosmo Baker
- YouTube - Design Coding
- http://www.jamphat.com/rap/
- GANGSTAGRASS
- Animal Pharm by Patrick Moberg
- kanYe West : Blog
- 2dopeboyz
- 6 Ways That Bloggers are Like Rappers | Copyblogger
- HipHopDX
- 100 Greatest Rap/Hip-Hop Songs
- Nah Right
- Baby Loves Hip Hop
- Kanye Travel Ventures
- Old School Hip Hop Party Flyers
- XXLmag.com | Hip-Hop On A Higher Level | » DMX Here I Am
Ruthless Rap Assassins
Ruthless Rap Assassins - Justice (Just Us)
The Mase remix. From SnubTV 1991
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Currently Trading on eBay
Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand by
Breaks and Beats
Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop
This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music -- a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. Nate Harrison's 2004 video is a meditation on the ownership of culture, the nature of art and creativity, and the history of a remarkable music clip.
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Remixing Art and Culture
Definitions, developments, tools and initiatives associated with the art of remixing.
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Freedom of Expression: Overzealous Copyright Bozos and Other Enemies of Creativity by Kimbrew McLeod
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Remix Theory
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The Genesis of Hip Hop - Big Think
Rising from an abandoned city, hip hop captured th more...0 points
Sampling and Remix Culture
Copyright Criminals : This is a sampling sport
(work in progress) as found on http://copyrightcriminals.com/
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Hip Hop Videos
DJ Videos
Music Creation Lenses
To find more music resources on Squidoo try my Squidoo Community Search tool. A Google custom search engine (CSE) dedicated to the Squidoo network. It's fast!-
Guitar Tools - Deals, News, Utilities & Webware for Guitarists
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Guitar Tools is a handy reference guide and web-mashup that connects guitarists with breaking news, online tools and top guitar resources. You can share great guitar sites, watch videos, listen to podcasts, learn about guitar recording tech...
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OpenSonics: Open Music Community News and Copyleft Media Resources
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OpenSonics focuses on news and developments within the Open Music community. Promoting awareness of freely available music, audio services, video and software. The latest community buzz and announcements are del...
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Unsigned Not Wasted - The DIY Music Marketing Hub for Indie Musicians and Fans
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A DIY music hub and media marketing platform for the new breed of Artist 2.0. Sharing social media tools that help musicians and fans to connect directly. Enabling easy communication, online interaction and new opportunities to build strong artist-fa...
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Museum of Sound Toys - Online Virtual Instruments, Interactive Music Guides, Digital Media Artworks
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A collection of links to web-based interactive works that allow you to explore the nature of sound, music creation and the history of music. The list of sound toys includes music games, music remixing tools, virtual instrumen...
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FreeSounds - Digital Audio Tools, Sound Sample Collections, Open Music Resources
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A guide to free sound solutions for creative audio editing and music making. Sharing free audio applications, royalty-free samples and loops, free music you can download, share, reuse and remix. Focusing on Copyleft, Creative Commons, Open Source an...
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