Hip Hop Artist - Find Out The Four Elements Of Hip Hop

Just before your favorite hip hop artist became famous, he or she must've studied the hip hop culture. After all, famous hip hop artist use the music industry as their career, it is sensible to know the history. Hip hop was born in Bronx, New York during the 1970's. The people who appreciated this kind of music were the minorities. During those days, the hip hop music were performed and listened from the underground. Then eventually hip hop was introduced to the world which turned into mainstream music.

To be able to create hip hop you must have the four elements of hip hop culture, which is DJing, MCing or rapping, graffiti and breakdancing; all these elements has influenced the culture at large in specific ways.

Hip hop DJs were very popular back then and even now. But the difference is back then DJs used a turntable as an instrument, it is a flat circular instrument that moves a record back and forth under a needle to listen to music. But DJs did not only use this instrument to listen to music they also use it to create scratches. The scratch sound was a popular hit in the hip hop industry that other genre such as jazz started use scratches on their music. Pop, rock and electronic music have all borrowed scratching from hip-hop. MCing is the art of vocalizing over the seamless grooves created by the DJ. Initially, the MC provided simple rhythmic chants to accompany some of the grooves implemented by the DJ. As the hip-hop culture developed, MCs began to create more complicated content, eventually leading to the creation of full song lyrics. The art of MCing eventually led to the creation of the modern rapper. Several non-hip-hop music genres have borrowed the rap style of lyric performance. Electronic producers mixed rap with house music to make hip-house; rockers appropriated rapping to create rap-rock.

Many public officials might consider graffiti only as a nuisance but it has evolved into an established art form in its own right. Graffiti is the term given to the visual art form that is associated with the hip-hop cultural movement. Usually composed of intricate stenography and imagery, graffiti is a public art form and was originally found almost solely on the sides of subways cars, buildings and other places of public display in urban areas. Graffiti pieces usually memorialize the artist, or their crew, and are consequently sometimes called tagging. Tags are also created in recognition of various social moments, events and people.

Breakdancing is how your favorite hip hop artist dance on films, TV shows and even video games. Like the other aspects of hip-hop, breaking was a form of public artistic performance and, as a result, was often regarded as a less formal kind of dance. Additionally, it influenced other styles of dance; European clubbers, for example, mixed punk, house as well as breakdance styles to create Tecktonik. The baggy pants, running shoes and stocking caps that is usual for breakdancing fashion have also become popular among non-breakdancers.