Hip Hop Stories (for the Record)

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On Hip Hop Music Culture, Past and Present

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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Contents at a Glance

Histories
Hip Hop Music - The Wikipedia Story
Beat This! A Hip Hop History - Various Videos

Freedom of Expression
Hip-Hop Playlists
Classic Hip Hop Tracks

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Histories

roots, genesis

Hip Hop Music - The Wikipedia Story

Hip hop is a musical genre which developed alongside hip hop culture, and is commonly based on concepts of looping, rapping, freestyling, DJing, scratching, sampling and beatboxing. The music is used to express concerns of political, social, and personal issues. Hip hop began in the Bronx in New York City in the 1970s, primarily among African Americans, with some Jamaican immigrant influence. The term rap is often used synonymously with hip hop, however, the latter denotes the practices of an entire subculture.Hip hop.(2003). In The Harvard Dictionary of Music. Retrieved from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/harvdictmusic/hip_hop

Rapping, also referred to as MCing or emceeing, is a vocal style in which the artist speaks lyrically, in rhyme and verse, generally to an instrumental or synthesized beat. Beats, almost always in 4/4 time signature, can be created by looping portions of other songs, usually by a DJ, or sampled from portions of other songs by a producer.WhoSampled - a database of sampled music Modern beats incorporate synthesizers, drum machines, and live bands. Rappers may write, memorize, or improvise their lyrics and perform their works a cappella or to a beat.

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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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Hip-Hop Playlists

Playlists are the Internet version of mixtapes. Use this Plexo to share links to hip-hop tracks and mixes.

Hip Hop Stories (for the Record)

On Hip Hop Music Culture, Past and Present

Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

Histories

Hip Hop Music - The Wikipedia Story

Beat This! A Hip Hop History - Various Videos

Freedom of Expression

Hip-Hop Playlists

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Classic Hip Hop Tracks

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Jam-Master Jay

Hip Hop Films

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Hip Hop Portals

Book Spotlight

Hip Hop Books

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Remix Culture

Talking about Sampling

Remix Stories

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Sampling Resources

Social Media

Delicious Hip-Hop

eBay - Hip Hop Culture

Blog Buzz

Hip Hop Blogs

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Bling for Blogs

Twitter Posts

Hip Hop tweets

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YouTube Videos

Hip-Hop Videos

Beatmaking Videos

Breakdancing Videos

DJ Videos

Viral Videos

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