Five Elements Of Hip Hop

Hip Hop in society is anything but a word. It is a living thing that grows, changes, and expresses itself as it goes through this. No matter how it may change though, it has always had one single meaning for its existence: peace; and with this meaning for existence, there must always be nine elements that are presence in order for Hip Hop to fulfill its purpose. The first element of Hip Hop, is dancing. Usually those who dance in Hip Hop are considered either the B-boy or the B-girl, and they dance for a variety of reasons. When it comes down to the origins of Hip Hop, they had danced for mostly one reason (even though other reasons were present). During the origin of Hip Hop, dancing was used as an alternate battling method when it came …show more content…
Street entrepreneurialism is someone, who has nothing, they may have a dead end job and a small apartment, but besides that they have nothing. The one thing that they have though, that can make all the difference, is creativity. It’s the art of taking that nothing, and turning it into something to become someone in life. This can take form from most of the other elements, whether it’s as an MC, B-boying/B-girling, being a graffiti artist, or being a DJ (even though that one will need a lot of money invested into it). There are even examples of street entrepreneurialism though that are outside the nine elements; one of the not-so-good examples could be dope dealing, or becoming a pimp. These are examples though because you’re taking nothing and turning it into …show more content…
Racism can be described as prejudice plus power, saying that the person feels a certain way about another individual, and has the power to degrade them. This has been happening for a long time throughout human history, but what really sparked the start of Hip Hop was around the time when segregation arose after the civil war, and slowly escalated from there on. There have been many things that we’ve talked about in class, from tar and feather punishments, to lynching’s, to the poor boy by the name of Emmitt Till. One of the closest events to the start of Hip Hop I can recall though is the burning of the Bronx. During the 1970’s, the Bronx was literally burning down, with thousands of buildings being burnt each year in the Bronx. This caused the area to become poverty stricken, gang ridden, and overall to just have a horrible economy. When the mayor of New York was asked about the problem of the Bronx burning, he had replied simply with (not exact wording) “well if they really wanted homes, they wouldn’t be burning all them down.” This is important because it feeds into that racist mentality, as when he refers to they, he more than likely is referring to the black community as a whole in the Bronx. The Bronx of course is where Hip Hop first originated, and it was mainly because of all the gang violence that was