During the 1980s three revolutions had taken hold of popular music: the emergence of disc-jockeys as a creative force (in particular in techno music), the advent of hip-hop (and therefore of the "rapper"), and the marriage of industrial music, heavy metal and hardcore (generically associated with the "cyber-punk" culture).

In Hip hop music, people individually and separately vocalize over beats, instrumental tracks, usually consisting of repeated phrases.

In the 1980s and early 1990s rap artists, like Public Enemy, KRS-One, X-Clan and Paris, reacting to the negative effects of the economic and political policies of the Reagan-Bush administrations, produced socially conscious songs like, "The Devil Made Me Do It."

Pressing poverty, political grievances, and a wide mixture of persons of African descent, including Haitians, US-born blacks, Jamaicans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans, contributed to the distinctive nature of hip hop culture, which allowed inner-city youth to establish individual and neighborhood identities in a competitive, largely nonviolent

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The hip hop world began in the Bronx in 1971. The founder of hip-hop was rapper and first break-beat deejay Kool Herc.

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Hip Hop music on record is born by Fatback Band's "King Tim III", Younger Generation's "We Rap More Mellow", and The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight" (Hip Hop legend Grandmaster Caz wrote the lyrics but never got credit).

I went through Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time and plucked out all the hip-hop ones in order.

In the terminology of rap music, Hip-Hop usually refers to the culture -- graffiti-spraying, breakdancing, and turntablism in addition to rapping itself -- surrounding the music.

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The circumstances of these two deaths were remarkably similar. Both young men were shot multiple times while sitting in the front passenger seats of their vehicles.

Hip-hop is the latest expressive manifestation of the past and current experience as well as the collective consciousness of African-American and Latino-American youth. But more than any music of the past, it also expresses mainstream American ideas that have now been internalized and embedded into the psyches of American people of color over time.

Rap is the most commodified element of Hiphop because it is easy to capture and sell, but Hiphop is much more than just that one expression.

This is not even close to a comprehensive review of hip hop and rap albums; it's just reviews of albums by the artists I'm familiar with.

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Founded in 2005, the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival is a series of free events celebrating Hip Hop music and culture and the borough of Brooklyn as a premier cultural destination.

The Trinity International Hip Hop Festival announces the schedule for its third annual event taking place at Trinity College April 4th, 5th and 6th, 2008.

Founded in 2000, The Hip-Hop Theater Festival continues to invigorate the fields of theater and Hip-Hop by: nurturing the creation of innovative work within the Hip-Hop aesthetic; presenting and touring American and international artists whose work addresses the issues relevant to the Hip-Hop generation; and serving young, urban communities through

Hip hop has been around for nearly a quarter of a century; it has thoroughly pervaded our culture; and it is one of the few things going on that we—the aging, white, middle-class portion of society, that is—not only permit ourselves to hate but openly encourage others to hate.

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