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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."11

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 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 

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Raising Hell

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Run-D.M.C.

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Jam-Master Jay 

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

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 

The buzz on the blogs.
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!

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Ruthless Rap Assassins 

Manchester's Ruthless Rap Assassins were one of the first hardcore UK hip hop crews to sign a major label record deal with EMI in the 1980's.

Ruthless Rap Assassins - Justice (Just Us)

The Mase remix. From SnubTV 1991

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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

Research by Eduardo Navas focusing on material rel more...0 points

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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 

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MEGA FESTIVAL DE HIP HOP

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Hip Hop Dance

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Hip hop dance competition

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Hip Hop Drummers

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Chamillionaire - Hip Hop Polic...

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Sabra and Dominic, Hip Hop

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Platinum (Hip Hop Dance Crew F...

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Jabbawockeez - Hip Hop Evoluti...

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Hip Hop Violin - Paul Dateh an...

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DJ Videos 

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DJ J-Riva R&B + Hip Hop Mix

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Crooked I Hip Hop Weekly Week ...

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Hip Hop 2008 Mix 1-Dj Plink

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Hip Hop Violin - Paul Dateh an...

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DJ Craze - Hip Hop, Drum 'n' B...

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DJ Tutorial, How to mix Hip Ho...

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Dj Zektore - Hip Hop Mix 2007 ...

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DJ T-Rock : Bomb Hip-Hop Europ...

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DJ Tomekk GZA Prodigal Sunn - ...

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David Holmes is a former sound engineer and indie studio manager based in the UK. David blogs at Dave's Imaginary Sound Space about sound and the social web including audio webware, online music, social media, creative commons, multimedia, podcasting, video, web startups, open source and free software tools. DISS is listed on Microsoft's Best of Windows Live Spaces website.


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