What is Hip Hop?

Answer 1

now a days? crap. sorry, but thats what it is.

Answer 2

Hip hop is a cultural movement that began among urban African Americans in New York City in the early 1970s, and has since spread around the world. Some consider beatboxing the fifth element of hip hop; others might add political activism, hip hop fashion, hip hop slang, double dutching (an urban form of rope skipping) or other elements as important facets of hip hop. The term has since come to be a synonym for hip hop music and rap to mainstream audiences. ...

Answer 3

hip hop is a culture that began in the bronx, ny. when a jamaican immigrant named hercules...aka...kool herc, started DJing out in the parks ina similar fashion as what jamaicans called toastin, where you talk over a beat or as it would later be known...to MC. It was mainly created because at that time there was no genre of music that spoke to the hearts and ears of those in the inner city, disco sucked and blues and jazz was dead, and rock was definitely not for them. hip hop consist of four elements: MCing, Djing, break dancing, and graffiti art. beat boxing is als considerdd the fifth physical element. Pioneers like grandmaster flash invented the mixer when he was trying to figure out a way to relay two turntable back and forth in order to reapeat a "break" or instrumental part of a record so MCs could rap or do battle amongst one another. Grand Wizard Theodore invented scratching. hip hop has mutated into what it is today now that corporate america has taken what is profitable from it and left everything else on the cutting room floor.

Answer 4

welll...ppl veiew hip hop as something bad..thats what its turning into..bbut back then all the old skool rappers never talked about any of this stuff that the new rappers talk about.. old skool rappers talked bout real things and mad it sound good...listen to De La soul or wutang clan, Notorious B.I.G., or 2pac, there all good 2

Answer 5

music, largely inspired by new york music scene origionaly, made by a dj playing two, or more records on turntables using a mixer, accompanied by one or more lyricist(S) using microphones, who rhyme lyrics over the top of the music produced by mixing and scratching the records.