Hip-hop has impacted everything: Art, culture, fashion, community, social justice, politics, sports, business.
The four foundational elements of hip-hop -- DJing, MCing, B-boying and graffiti "writing" -- emerged from the Bronx in the 1960s and 70s.Hip-hop was born in the break - that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage.
In hip-hop, "when someone does it, then that's how it's done. When someone does something different, then that's a new way," says Babatunde Akinboboye, a Nigerian-American opera singer and longtime hip-hop fan in Los Angeles, who creates content on social media using both musical styles.Those looking for a starting point have landed on Aug. 11, 1973, when Clive Campbell, known as DJ Kool Herc around the Bronx, deejayed a party.
And Guy "Master Gee" O'Brien says, "If you couldn't sing or you couldn't play an instrument, you could recite poetry and speak your mind. And so it became accessible to the everyman." And Public Enemy's "Fight the Power" became an anthem when it was created for filmmaker Spike Lee's 1989 classic "Do the Right Thing," which chronicled racial tension in a Brooklyn neighborhood.
As hip-hop spread, a host of voices have used it to speak out, like Bobby Sanchez, a Peruvian American transgender, two-spirit poet and rapper who has released a song in Quechua, the language of the Wari people that her father came from.
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