American Roots Hip Hop

 American Roots Big Blog No. 1

    As we know today Hip Hop is one of the most of many genres that are played in the United States Today. Hip-Hop has spread in many different countries and is now being played in many different parts of the world. Hip Hop has not also been this popular as in many things, great things always have small beginnings and by the end of this blog, you will have a deeper meaning and connection in which Hip Hop has come from.

    Hip Hop started bringing itself to the scene in the 1970s. Hip Hop started breaking into The Bronx which is a city in New York. In New York City The Bronx is known for its high crime rate and rising poverty with young people in the Bronx started creating cultural expressions about their experiences and the way they were living during that time through not just music but dances also. While Hip Hop was starting to grow in that area artists had now gained attention from fans and started performing at venues that were public parks and recreational areas in the Bronx. Hip Hop started to emerge and now DJs will start to assemble beats and will have MCs rap on their beats for entertainment at shows.

    At the beginning of Hip Hop, the music originated from DJs and MCs while most of the most popular DJs and MCs came from New York.  During this time there was a popular DJ named DJ Kool Herc who was great at mixing beats with popular dance songs at that time. With the influence that other DJs received from DJ Kool Herc other DJs started to develop more skills being a DJ which also helped make rapping more popular. As DJ Kool Herc's era was coming to an end Hip Hop started to earn more popularity and national recognition with a song named Rapper Delights which was made by the SugarHill Gang gained a lot of popularity and started many people around the world to this Hip Hop style of music. 

    As Hip Hop started to gain more their were many Artists that have started to involved as the artists Run-D.M.C, LL Cool J, and the Beastie Boys which has helped form Hip Hop as we know it today.  D.M.C started bringing Hip Hop to the television scene where he started making live Hip Hop performances on National Television. LL Cool J and Public Enemy were artists that brought different themes to Hip Hop music as they expressed their feelings through music. As Hip Hop continues to grow it expanded past its region in California a rap group Straight Outta Compton became one of the biggest rap or Hip Hop groups to emerge to the Hip Hop scene which wasn’t from New York. You will think this will be great to see Hip Hop expand but this started to cause conflict between the East and The West in the United States which led to the unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. Hip Hop has now become a world influence as it started to receive audiences from China, Tokyo, Paris, and London. Hip Hop became one of the best-selling music genres in the United States.

    Today, Hip Hop music comes from many different cities in the United States like Atlanta, Detroit, New Orleans, and Jacksonville to name a few. Hip Hop has spread all over the world and is one of the most selling genres of music in the world today.