History of hip hop

Hip hop is often considered as consisting only of music and rapping. Well, that's not true. Hip hop is a modern cultural movement and it consists of DJing, rapping, breakdancing and graffiti making... Hip hop and rap as a part of it carry roots from Americans of Caribbean ancestry. The most important people from the early beginnings are Herc, D.J. Hollywood, and Afrika Bambaataa. Herc was the first to introduce scratching as a part of this music, and is considered to be the first to introduce the turntables as a musical instrument. The second more important artist from that period was inspired by tape recordings of Herc's parties - Afrika Bambaataa. These two artists often engaged in sound-system battles held in parks or local clubs. Afrika was the first to mix sounds from rock music and television shows into the style that Herc used. In the following years any type of music is considered to be usable in rap, and today you can hear music from various 80's pop artists in rap songs. Sampling of the various songs brought copyright issue questions to top. Some rap artists were considered challenging James Brown's (folk musicians') and other musicians' right to own, control, and be compensated for the use of their intellectual creations. Some of those artists that were sampled the most (such as funk musician George Clinton) released CD's with sound bites made specifically to facilitate sampling. The effect of rap to this music is that earlier artists such as Brown and Clinton were celebrated as cultural heroes and their older recordings were reissued and repopularized. As white musicians started embracing new style, in 1980s rap moved to the mainstream of the music industry. In those time "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" by the Beastie Boys and "Walk This Way" by Run-DMC and Aerosmith were extremely popular. The first female rap group is considered to be Salt-N-Pepa and one of their song "Push It" was among the top 20 charts. In the late 80s the political motives has risen in rap, and groups like Public Enemy embraced this style. With the political right gangsta rap arouse. Gangsta rap attempted to depict the outlaw style of life of sex, drugs and violence. In 1988 the first more important album of gangsta rap was released: Straight Outta Compton by the rap group Niggaz With Attitude (NWA). There were some attempts to censor gangsta rap, but these attempts only helped this music to gain momentum, and helped solo artists like Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E to get started. In 1990s many rap artists 'borrowed' music from jazz, and later this style evolved into trip-hop (main representatives of this style are Massive attack and Tricky). In these years gangsta rap gained even more momentum and pushed political rap outside. The most popular artist of gangsta rap are/were Geto Boys, Snoop Doggy Dogg and Tupac Shakur. Rap influenced culture in many ways, and till today it is a strong style, which is still growing.