What do you think hip-hop is?

Question

What is the defintion of hip-hop i know what it is I want to know do you know. I also want to know because hip-hop is dead and Nas is comin back to revive it from the dead, wit his song called Hip hop is dead.

Hip hop is dead album comin out 12/19/06 by NAS God's son.

Answer 1

I am a true hip hop fan for life. I had to do a report and this is what I thought:

Hip hop music, also referred to as rap or rap music, is a style of popular music which came into existence in the United States during the mid-1970s, and became a large part of modern pop culture during the 1980s. It consists of two main components: rapping (MCing) and DJing (audio mixing and scratching). Along with hip hop dance (notably breakdancing) and urban inspired art, or notably graffiti, these compose the four elements of hip hop, a cultural movement that was initiated by inner-city youth, mostly African Americans in New York City, in the early 1970s.

Typically, hip hop music consists of intensely rhythmic lyrical form making abundant use of techniques like assonance, alliteration, and rhyme. The rapper is accompanied by an instrumental track, usually referred to as a "beat", performed by a DJ, created by a producer, or one or more instrumentalists. This beat is often created using a sample of the percussion break of another song, usually a funk or soul recording. In addition to the beat other sounds are often sampled, synthesized, or performed. Sometimes a track can be instrumental, as a showcase of the skills of the DJ or producer.

Hip hop began in The Bronx, located in New York City, when DJs began isolating the percussion break from funk and disco songs. The early role of the MC was to introduce the DJ and the music and to keep the audience excited. MCs began by speaking between songs, giving exhortations to dance, greetings to audience members, jokes and anecdotes. Eventually this practice became more stylized and became known as rapping. By 1979 hip hop had become a commercially popular music genre and began to enter the American mainstream. In the 1990s, a form of hip hop called gangsta rap became a major part of American music, causing significant controversy over lyrics which were perceived as promoting violence, terrorism, promiscuity, drug use and misogyny. Nevertheless, by the beginning of the 2000s, hip hop was a staple of popular music charts and was being performed in many styles across the world.

Hip hop music is a part of hip hop, a cultural movement that includes the activities of breakdancing and graffiti art, as well as associated slang, fashion and other elements. The popularity of music has helped to popularize hip hop culture, both in the United States and to a lesser degree abroad.

And you ask "What is Hip Hop?

Answer 2

Good Question seeing some of the ignorant answers the question is much needed. Hip hop is a culture of fun loud music smiles and parties. Gangster rap is a reflection of America, these people insulting the art of music just hate to face the facts, these people are a product of which society has made them. Listen close before you judge.

Answer 3

Hip hop is what it means to you theres no definite definition to it other than that it is. All of the songs have meaning and self expression. Hip hop is not just the music...it is a culture and form of ground breaking music and self expression. It is the expression of the relationship between the artists and their environment.
Someone once said hip-hop is not what you do it is how you live.

Answer 4

Music

Answer 5

Hip Hop is a culture, and a culture cannot be dead.

I've lived it my whole life. It's not about these bubble gum rappers out there on MTV sounding the same. It's about DJs, grafitti, Lyricists, and most of all, originality.

Answer 6

Hip Hop = garbage with a beat

Answer 7

its just rythmic poetry. write down some words, and speak
them in time.. thats all.

Answer 8

A waste of time and should have been killed a long time ago.

Answer 9

hopless music.

Answer 10

trash