Hip Hop History

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Snoop Dogg once said that “hip hop is what makes the world go around.” When hip hop first started in the 70s, it was a very cultural. The 70s were full of civil rights and a difficult time for some people and music is where people could connect. One of hip hop's founders Grandmaster Flash said “it was never necessarily about black music or white music or foreign music it was just music.” Even though hip hop began in the 70’s its most popular time was in the 1990s. It became the best genre in the US in the late 90s. Although hip hop just started to became popular in the 90s, people may still have trouble figuring out where it started with deejaying, and how it transformed into old school rap and gangster rap. Deejaying was the start of hip …show more content…

In the 70s, hip hop involved the “early MCs and deejays who constituted rap’s old school style” (Britannica). The major old school rappers were Grandmaster Flash, and Kurtis Blow. During the beginning of hip hop there was a classical period, it was from 1979-93. It involved female rappers such as Queen Latifah and Salt-N-Pepa. During that time “female rappers offered an alternative to rap’s predominantly male viewpoint” (Britannica). Although hip hop was created in NYC, it expanded across the country, especially in California. Most of the response to the NY hip hop came from N.W. A and Ice-T. N.W. A had some amazing albums like “Straight Outta Compton” and the members of the group “led the way as west coast rap grew in prominence in the early …show more content…

Snoop dogg, Ice-T, Schoolly D were the rise of the genre known as gangster rap” (Britannica). Other well known rappers in the genre were the Wu-Tang Clan who were New York rappers and Diddy who was a well known producer who worked at Bad Boy Records in NYC. He gave way to artist such as Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, and another well known artist at the company The Notorious B.I.G. Another well known record company was Death Row Records located in Los Angeles, they had well known rappers like Tupac Shakur and Snoop dogg. Between the two studios, there was a rivalry between west coast Vs the east coast. Due to the rivalry, the two artists Biggie and Tupac, were put against each other. There is still talk today about which rapper is better. Today Tupac is known more for his persona and less for his music and Biggie is more known for his music and less for his persona. Even though there was rivalry “hip-hop became the best-selling genre of popular music in the US in the late 1990s”

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