As the DJ would scratch and spin their records, you would have “wordsmiths,” which are known today as an MC, would step up to the microphone and begin rapping to either get the crowd hype or get a message across. Hip hop started underground due to the audience it initially attracted, until The Sugar Hill Gang made “Rappers Delight,” which allowed hip hop to spill into mainstream and commercial radio. This track became an anthem in dance clubs everywhere for the next year. More than just a novelty, the track became hip hop genres first top 40 hit on Jan. 5, 1980 (Frost 5). Now that hip hop was finally gaining momentum and beginning to reach every demographic, a culture was starting to evolve and that evolution expanded and grew to where it now
…show more content…
Many in the hip hop community say the real fashion of hip hop started with Dapper Dan, a tailor from Harlem, NY, whom choice of fashion and style caught rappers’ attention (Donaton 3). Dapper Dan would expand the size of luxury brand logos and print them on any type of clothing you could think of. Now by flaunting and showing off these fancy brands of clothing it made a way for rappers to express both aspirations and critiques of social mobility in the US (Frost 18). Rappers then realized that they could create their own clothing brands, appealing to their fan base and other people who were interested in fashion trends of hip hop, having a new outlet to go to instead of wearing luxury brands. A few hip hop artists that went this route were Kanye West, Jay-Z, Pharrel Williams, MC Hammer, OutKast, Sean Combs, and Tyler the Creator. The fashion in hip hop just wasn’t something that was a phenomenon in the United States, the culture of hip hop influenced countries overseas. Some of the countries that took to this hip hop culture and style were China, England, Norway, Australia, Korea, Brazil, Columbia, and France (Powell 56). They tried to mirror and dress as the artist they were seeing in hip hop. Fashion is a key part to the hip hop culture, …show more content…
Music has a way to influence and inspire, but when a genre is responsible for influencing various age groups, demographics, and countries then it’s hard to deny that hip hop has will continue to influence our
Many in the hip hop community say the real fashion of hip hop started with Dapper Dan, a tailor from Harlem, NY, whom choice of fashion and style caught rappers’ attention (Donaton 3). Dapper Dan would expand the size of luxury brand logos and print them on any type of clothing you could think of. Now by flaunting and showing off these fancy brands of clothing it made a way for rappers to express both aspirations and critiques of social mobility in the US (Frost 18). Rappers then realized that they could create their own clothing brands, appealing to their fan base and other people who were interested in fashion trends of hip hop, having a new outlet to go to instead of wearing luxury brands. A few hip hop artists that went this route were Kanye West, Jay-Z, Pharrel Williams, MC Hammer, OutKast, Sean Combs, and Tyler the Creator. The fashion in hip hop just wasn’t something that was a phenomenon in the United States, the culture of hip hop influenced countries overseas. Some of the countries that took to this hip hop culture and style were China, England, Norway, Australia, Korea, Brazil, Columbia, and France (Powell 56). They tried to mirror and dress as the artist they were seeing in hip hop. Fashion is a key part to the hip hop culture, …show more content…
Music has a way to influence and inspire, but when a genre is responsible for influencing various age groups, demographics, and countries then it’s hard to deny that hip hop has will continue to influence our