Of course, towards the mid-1980s the new school or the golden age of Hip hop was brought into the light. At the time when Hip hop was developing in the 70s almost every graffiti artist was either in a gang or group and they were trying to mark their territory or promote their group. Graffiti is a certain style of art that was painted with spray paint and is illegal in most areas because it is vandalizing private property. There was different forms of graffiti one was a tag. According to Michael DeNotto, “A tag is a graffiti artist’s signature. Tags are text based and largely indecipherable by those outside the graffiti community. The intention behind a tag is the rebellious proliferation of the artist’s signature, akin to brand name advertising”
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Teen and young adults also participated in what was known as B-boying or breakdancing in which they would dance within a circle with a street style type of dance. According to Kevin Powell, “And people don’t realize it gave name to those kids who were dancing because they became known as breakdancers because they were dancing to those breakbeats” (Powell). Powell’s point is that the all the kids that were having dance battles to the music were dancing to the breaks in the song that kept being played. So the breakdancers essentially created a new style of dancing, but it had started to die down towards the era of new school hip hop because what was becoming popular was a lot of different fads that were dances that tended to also die off. In Jeff Chang’s book, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, he states, “B-boying, a dance style that had already died once in New York, disappeared again, to be replaced by a succession of fad dances. Steps like the Whop, the Reebok, the Cabbage Patch and countless others got everyone back on the dancefloor. But each one disappeared faster than b-boying ever had” (Chang …show more content…
Before gangsta rap took over the Los Angeles area techno was the big thing that was played across the whole city, some of the first rappers were getting tired of this techno music that they were playing. So with Hip hop spreading across the country they decided to make their own style of rap which was gangsta rap. Gangsta rap was either made but people in gangs or people who were gang affiliated, they rhymed about how they would kill other gangs that stepped on their turf or how much drugs they were selling and who was selling the drugs. Gangsta rap was a more serious type of rap were they would rap about how the police would kill and sometimes arrest black people for no reason at all. Most of the rappers in the gangsta rap era were inspiration came from what was going on throughout the streets of L.A when crack was introduced. The streets were getting even more dangerous than before so the rappers were rapping about their reality and people loved to listen to that. From the streets of Compton there formed a supergroup of rappers who called themselves N.W.A. their rhymes were really explicit and violent. N.W.A. wouldn’t be what it is known as today if it wasn’t for Eazy E, According to Jeff Chang, “He delivered the rap in a deadpan singsong, a voice perhaps
Teen and young adults also participated in what was known as B-boying or breakdancing in which they would dance within a circle with a street style type of dance. According to Kevin Powell, “And people don’t realize it gave name to those kids who were dancing because they became known as breakdancers because they were dancing to those breakbeats” (Powell). Powell’s point is that the all the kids that were having dance battles to the music were dancing to the breaks in the song that kept being played. So the breakdancers essentially created a new style of dancing, but it had started to die down towards the era of new school hip hop because what was becoming popular was a lot of different fads that were dances that tended to also die off. In Jeff Chang’s book, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, he states, “B-boying, a dance style that had already died once in New York, disappeared again, to be replaced by a succession of fad dances. Steps like the Whop, the Reebok, the Cabbage Patch and countless others got everyone back on the dancefloor. But each one disappeared faster than b-boying ever had” (Chang …show more content…
Before gangsta rap took over the Los Angeles area techno was the big thing that was played across the whole city, some of the first rappers were getting tired of this techno music that they were playing. So with Hip hop spreading across the country they decided to make their own style of rap which was gangsta rap. Gangsta rap was either made but people in gangs or people who were gang affiliated, they rhymed about how they would kill other gangs that stepped on their turf or how much drugs they were selling and who was selling the drugs. Gangsta rap was a more serious type of rap were they would rap about how the police would kill and sometimes arrest black people for no reason at all. Most of the rappers in the gangsta rap era were inspiration came from what was going on throughout the streets of L.A when crack was introduced. The streets were getting even more dangerous than before so the rappers were rapping about their reality and people loved to listen to that. From the streets of Compton there formed a supergroup of rappers who called themselves N.W.A. their rhymes were really explicit and violent. N.W.A. wouldn’t be what it is known as today if it wasn’t for Eazy E, According to Jeff Chang, “He delivered the rap in a deadpan singsong, a voice perhaps