HIP HOP CULTURE
Hip hop culture is a lifestyle consisting of music, fashion, dancing, art, etc, which has its own lingo, dress code, etc…
Hip hop culture can be divided into:
· Hip hop Music
· Hip hop Art (GRAFFITI)
· Hip hop Dancing (BREAK DANCING)
· Hip hop Fashion, etc…
HIP HOP MUSIC :
Hip hop music is a music genre and is one of the most popular genre of today’s world. Hip Hop music usually consists of DJ & MC with backing beats.
(DJ means “Disc Jockey”. A hip-hop disc jockey is a DJ that selects, plays and creates music with multiple turntables as a hip-hop artist or performer, often backing up one or more MCs.)
(MC means “Master of Ceremony” or a hip hoper or a rapper hosting a jam & rhyming on the Mic.)
HIP HOP ART (Graffiti) :
Graffiti or Tagging is the spray-painting graffiti art usually having the stylized signature of the graffiti artist at the bottom and was mostly done on the walls.
It got started in Philadelphia during the 1960s. And by 1970 the graffiti art was seen in New York. The graffiti art started moving from the streets to the subways and quickly became competitive.
HIP HOP DANCE (Break dancing) :
Break dancing is a dance in a frenetic, distinctive style. Breaking is a hip hop dance.
The original name of “Break Dance” was “Bboy”. Bboy means Bronx boy, break boy or beat boy.
The “b-boys” and “b-girls” were only interested in the instrumental break of a song and teenagers who partied at “Kool Herc” parties, evolved this stylized manner of dancing along with the inspiration from James Brown.
Hip Hop Fashion :
Hip hop has bring about a fashion mostly to the young teenagers after the seventies(1970’s).
Hip-hop fashion was and is mostly about baggy clothes but several others accessories are included like caps (mostly baseball & matching leather caps), custom sneakers, stunner shades , earrings (mostly diamonds , gold necklaces (both white & yellow),multi-fingered rings, , huge watches (gold or other), grillz made of gold, etc…