Afrika Bambaataa

(Hip-Hop Evolution). Graffiti comes in as an expression of urban art. Because of Kool Herc’s great accomplishments, many other DJs followed in his footsteps and went on to mimic his sound such as Afrika Bambaataa. In an interview, Grand Wizzard Theodore of the Fantastic Five talks about Afrika Bambaataa saying, “when he formed the Zulu Nation, it was a melting pot of different gang members and people wanting to straighten their lives out and the…

Hip Hop became really popular in the mid to late nineteen hundreds and still is very popular to this day. Hip Hop has developed an art that reflects culture as well as express social, political and economic situations in many peoples lives, especially the youth. Music started off with drumming. Through drumming, communities were able to communicate, and the use of drums was also utilized in ceremonies and rituals in African American lives. Drumming was the base of African music in the Diaspora.…

street gangs by the names of Black Spades, Savage Nomads, Seven Immortals, Savage Skulls. In the streets the organization that was initially spanned from The Organization became a musical wave of warriors of hip hop for peace as led by “brother” Bambaataa. This wave of DJing and MCing became one of the first families in hip hop culture that unified many that had succumbed to gang life, but were now preachers of peace, love, and unification through the elements of hip…

Maria Figueroa Tina Marie Skiles ENG 101 - 27416 Oct. 12, 2017 Reality X: The cause and effect of Hip-Hop music In the beginning there were many different genres of music dealing with social issues, these songs were primarily written about war and injustice. They were given a proper place in our history and were remembered as lyrical, musical achievements of their time. This excluded many injustices, including the war against African-Americans. In the 1970’s, was when the music of…

Twerk, Bling, Phat, Dope, these are all words found in the Oxford Dictionary. These words also stem from hip-hop. For decades, hip-hop has been influencing American culture, with “Rapper 's Delight” in the 80 's, Gangster Rap in the 90 's, to the mainstream Rap of today. Created in the 70’s, hip-hop is a culture that is most associated with music, but also encompasses, art, dancing and fashion. The history of hip hop started in New York. In the 70’s DJ Kool Herc started to use two turntables to…

This as well as DJing and rap were spreading all across New York when Afrika Bambaataa creates Universal Zulu Nation. He describes it as having the four elements of hip hop culture, which he believes, are DJing, break dancing, graffiti, and MCing. Meanwhile, DJ Grand Wizard Theodore unknowingly invents “scratching” which is when…

Which In America is more popular Rock or Hip Hop music. Research dissected the musical elements of the songs, 23% of the population were rock fans and 25% were already Hip Hop fans of early 90’s, some artists altered, the change in popularity, Hip Hop and Rap influenced pop music more than the Beatles over the last 50 years and leading into early 90’s Hip Hop became the more popular types of music. From 1960 till 1990 it was Rock and Roll that was more popular types, but by 2000 40% of fans…

Angela Conner Class 78537 Professor C. Robinson 10 October 2015 Essay 1 Dr. Renford Reese, did and article back in the summer of 2000 on popular culture review. The title of the article “From the Fringe: The Hip Hop Culture and Ethnic Relations”. Reading this article I felt very enlightened, because I knew about Hip Hop music but not the background of Hip Hop music. The quote that enlightened me was, According to Geneva Smitherman, the foundation of rap music is rooted in “Black oral…

South to form one of the most dynamic cultural movements in history. It is widely known that hip hop consists of four fundamental elements. They are DJing, break-dancing , graffiti and rapping. However, there is a fifth element according to Afrika Bambaataa that is often overlooked by hip hop aficionados. It is the thing that KRS has told us that reigns supreme over nearly everyone--knowledge.…

spoken expression of self they channel themselves through their music they rap what is real try to stay away from defining rap because it doesn't need to be defined it’s what you want it to be, there are a lot of influential rappers such as DJ Afrika Bambaataa, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, Nas, J.cole, Kendrick Lamar, Tyler the Creator and Joey Bada$$. Lastly you have breaking/dancing there are a lots of different dances and a lot of them have different meanings but again it’s an physical expression self…