Sorry, brother. There was metal, funk, rap, disco, Happy Days and even Prince in the 70's. "Goin' to the hop" was an expression the Fonz used to describe a party. That hop *was* probably hip, brother. While rap music is only a form a of music, Chuck D said, hip hop is a term applied to black culture since 1975. "Hip hop is not a culture but a sub-culture of a people with a culture." http://www.onlinerecords.co.uk/History/HipHop.html There was no hip hop music in the '70's. Rapping was a way of mixing, old tunes with two turntables and a mic, born in the late seventies. Hip hop was a funky lifestyle in Brooklyn when TEE was kickin' it worldwide, brother. amir "..::=|X|=::.." wrote:
The new thing was called "rap" in NYC back in the '70's. Been there, done that! And "rap" was in Jamaica decades ago; D.J.'s called it "toasting." Hip Hop is a lifestyle from the freakin' 80's.
amir
okay brother, as you like to split hairs by now, then here we go: hip hop is indeed a lifestyle that contains rapping by the so called mc(s) (master(s) of ceremony), deejaying, breakdancing, beatboxing (which amazed kraftwerk so much that they decided in 1986 to do a track called "boing boom tschak" to open their "electric cafe" album!) and -last but not least- spraying or graffiti art. all of those parts that finally made up, what's called hip hop in general were already introduced "on the streets" on n.y.c. in the mid-70s and not just in the last 70s or early 80s. that's just another plain fact! go back and check your history, brother!
peace, y' all!
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