Hip Hop and Rap Project

Hip hop is a cultural movement and music form that began during the 1970s in New York City from the multicultural exchange between African Americans and children of immigrants from countries in the Caribbean and attained widespread popularity in the 1980s and ’90s.

Natalie

Some of the pioneers of hip-hop include Grandmaster Flash, DJ Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa. These artists and the culture that they created were essential to the success of hip hop today

​Natalie

Flash and his group The Furious Five were hip-hop's greatest innovators, and over time, he developed a series of groundbreaking techniques

Grandmaster Flash

A DJ during the 1970s, he ascended to godfather status with "Planet Rock," the 1982 hip-hop classic that blended the beats of hip-hop w/ techno-pop futurism.

Afrika Bambaataa

The originator of breakbeat DJing & essence of hip-hop. By isolating and repeating the "breaks," Herc created the prototype for modern-day hip-hop.

DJ Kool Herc

​Cole

Rap is a musical style in which rhythmic and/or rhyming speech is chanted (“rapped”) to musical accompaniment. The first ever rap song recorded and released was in 1979 in NY

​Myreena

​Myreena

Rap’s early stars included Grandmaster Flash and the Furios Five, Run-D.M.C., LL Cool J, Public Enemy, and the Beastie Boys.​

​Myreena

The main differences between Hip Hop and Rap music are the artists’ intentions, the music’s focus, and the styles of delivery. Rap is more spoken word, while hip hop is more rhythmic.

​Lluvia

​How did Rap and Hip Hop Influence the World?

The global influence of hip hop & rap culture has shaped music styles, fashion, technology, art, entertainment, language, dance, education, politics, media, & more. To this day, hip hop & rap continues to be a global phenomenon, developing new art forms that impact the lives of new & old generations.

​Lluvia

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-Rap | History, Artists, & Facts | Britannica