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Hip hop is a cultural movement and type of music that became popular in the United States in the 1980s. Hip hop music originated in the South Bronx region of New York City in the late 1970s. Hip-hop artists vocalize over beats and instrumental tracks, usually consisting of repeated phrases. The use of extended drum breaks led to the development of mixing and scratching techniques. The early DJs used this technique as hip-hop dance grew in popularity. Fans began to wear hip-hop clothing, which consisted of heavy gold jewelry in the 1980s to baggy pants in the 2000s. Hip hop and rap are sometimes thought to be interchangeable, but rap involves rhythmic wordplay, which is a component of hip hop...
Hip hop is a cultural movement and type of music that became popular in the United States in the 1980s. Hip hop music originated in the South Bronx region of New York City in the late 1970s. Hip-hop artists vocalize over beats and instrumental tracks, usually consisting of repeated phrases. The use of extended drum breaks led to the development of mixing and scratching techniques. The early DJs used this technique as hip-hop dance grew in popularity. Fans began to wear hip-hop clothing, which consisted of heavy gold jewelry in the 1980s to baggy pants in the 2000s. Hip hop and rap are sometimes thought to be interchangeable, but rap involves rhythmic wordplay, which is a component of hip hop. Its popularity grew over the years as hip hop music videos entered the mainstream media and fans clamored for the latest news on the artists.
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Homecoming dance helps special-needs students feel included
South Florida Sun-SentinelTo get ready for the Homecoming dance, Andrew DiMauro, 18, picked out new khaki pants, new socks and a new blue shirt. It was his first dance. "It's an opportunity my son wouldn't have had otherwise," said his mother, Carol DiMauro, who lives in...Tags: Dance
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New York hip-hop and electronica make waves
E-mail Ed Morales at sonidoslatinos@edmorales.net.New York Latin music fans have much nostalgia for the '70s, when salsa, an urban spin on Afro-Caribbean dance music, became all the rage. But at the same moment, literally across town, new electronic sounds were fusing with uptown street culture to create...Tags: Smashing Pumpkins, Gnarls Barkley, Jazz Music, Latin Music, Electronica
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Polo Ralph Lauren fits 88-Keys just fine
He wears many hats -- rapper, singer, producer for artists such as Mos Def and Macy Gray -- but 88-Keys, whose teasingly genre-bending debut "The Death of Adam" was released this month, insists that all his hats bear one label: Polo by Ralph Lauren....Tags: Rap, World War II, Raekwon, Kanye West, Mos Def
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Displaced by Katrina, pair develops raw hip-hop charm
Tribune criticFrom the get-go, the Knux stand apart from most hip-hop artists. Krispy Kream and Rah Almillio, Los Angeles-based siblings displaced from their native New Orleans when their home was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, function as a self-contained band. They...Tags: Eminem, MySpace
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Obama and hip-hop: Where will the president-elect stand on rap lyrics?
Barack Obama was in his last year of high school in 1979 when hip-hop broke out of the ghettos of New York on its way to becoming a national phenomenon. He is in many ways a child of hip-hop, but sometimes a reluctant one. Even as the president-elect...Tags: Al Sharpton, Rap, Bill Clinton, Kanye West, Racism
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Rapper is living up to the hip-hop hype
247-4732Lil Wayne, one of hip-hop's brightest rising stars, will headline a show at Hampton Coliseum Jan. 3. The concert will also include hit-makers T-Pain, Keyshia Cole, Gym Class Heroes and Keri Hilson. Tickets to the show, presented by Live Nation, go on...Tags: Rap, Pain, New York Times, Migraine, Hampton Coliseum
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Hip-hop veteran Common touts the Zune as Microsoft tries to mine its music player for hipness
AP Technology WriterSEATTLE (AP) _ A video for the title track on hip-hop veteran Common's forthcoming album, "Universal Mind Control," begins with a digital music player pulsing to the beat. The viewer is pulled through the screen into the gadget's guts, where the cool,...Tags: Rap, New Products, Apple Inc., Consumer Electronics Industry, Microsoft Corp.
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Def Jam executive dies from gunshot wound
The executive who succeeded Jay-Z as the head of hip-hop music label Def Jam Recordings died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound near Atlanta, police said yesterday. Executive vice president Shakir Stewart, 34, died on Saturday, his New York-based...Tags: Assault, Jay-Z, Injuries
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CD review: Q-Tip's 'The Renaissance'
The Renaissance
Q-Tip
[Universal Motown] ****
Within six years, Jonathan Davis, better known as celebrated rapper Q-Tip, bounced around five different labels. And although he recorded a wealth of material, none of it saw official release. Only one...Tags: Barack Obama
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Def Jam says exec who succeeded Jay-Z is dead
New York City-based Def Jam Recordings says that the executive that succeeded Jay-Z as the head of the legendary hip hop music label has died. The company said in a statement that executive vice president Shakir Stewart died on Saturday. The cause of...Tags: Jay-Z
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