IN THE MID-1970 S rap music began to develop in New York City. At the time it was an unknown type of music that existed in one small corner of a great big city. It was played by DJs who traveled to local parks and community centers, stole electric power...

Hip hop music is a style of popular music typically consisting of a rhythmic style of speaking called rap over backing beats performed on a turntable by a DJ. Rapping and DJing are considered two of the four elements of Hip hop, a cultural movement...

George Yancy Philadelphia Tribune, The 12-16-1994 Tracing the origins of hip hop music. By George Yancy To fully engage hip hop culture, it is necessary to move in close to see and feel the cultural fluidity and syncopation. There are connections...

Musical INTO THE HOODS Novello Theatre LONDON ***** As with any good hip-hop show, the premise for success is really quite simple: the moves, whether taken from B-boy, old-school or modern influences, must pop with precision. Dancers should flow together in a...

If you had the opportunity to choose thirteen songs for a compilation, would you prevail or crumble under the pressure to produce? Suge Knight, CEO of Death Row Records, was faced with this same dilemma and prevailed with The Very Best of Death Row.This compilation...

Hip Hop music broke yet another barrier when Three 6 Mafia took home an Oscar for "Best Original Song". As ecstatic as Three 6 were, perhaps no one was more thrilled than Paul Stewart, a veteran film music supervisor who oversaw the music for Hustle...

In the following essay, Shusterman praises rap music as a postmodern form of high art that challenges such modernist aesthetic conventions as originality, autonomy, integrity, rationalization, and secularization.

The parallels between the culture of jazz and hip hop through music, the ghetto and language are significant. Although they are both musically and culturally quite different, each arising out of a particular historical moment with its own distinct musical and cultural practices, there exists enough similarities between that two that it seems a comparison is indeed beneficial in understanding and examining American society in general.

Discusses the growing hip hop music industry and how it has infiltrated popular culture. Describes how businesses use the Hip-Hop community to promote their products and appeal to their target audience.

Discusses the relevance of rap music. Examines its affects on listeners. Describes common misconceptions about the art form.