Hip Hop
Hip hop is a subculture and art movement developed in The Bronx in New York City during the late 1970s. Hip hop is characterized by nine elements, however only four elements are considered most necessary to understand hip-hop musically. The main elements of hip-hop consist of four main pillars. The 5th element is commonly considered either street knowledge, hip hop fashion or beatboxing however it is often debate. Afrika Bambaataa of the hip hop collective Zulu Nation outlined the pillars of hip hop culture
Although widely considered a synonym for rap music, the term hip-hop refers to a complex culture comprising four elements: deejaying, or “turntabling”; rapping, also known as “MCing” or “rhyming”; graffiti painting, also known as “graf” or “writing”; and “B-boying,” which encompasses hip-hop dance, style, and attitude, along with the sort of virile body language Graffiti and breakdancing, the aspects of the culture that first caught public attention, had the least lasting effect. Reputedly, the graffiti movement was started about 1972 by a Greek American teenager who signed, or “tagged,” Taki 183 (his name and street, 183rd Street) on walls throughout the New York City subway system.
The beginnings of the dancing, rapping, and deejaying components of hip-hop were bound together by the shared environment in which these artforms evolved.
Cesar Prieto and Joshua Magee
Grandmaster Flash
Kurtis Blow
Afrika Bambaataa