History Of Hip-Hop

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Hip-hop music or rap music is an admired and famous style or genre of music in the USA. This well-known music genre is made up of two components, rapping and record scratching. Rapping is also known as MCing and DJing, which comprises of audio mixing. These two main components combined with graffiti and break dancing form the four core elements of hip-hop.

History Of Hip-Hop

Hip-hop was initiated as a cultural movement by inner-city youth, mostly Latinos, Hispanics, and African Americans in New York City, in the early seventies. The word "rap" was derived in the sixties, from a slang word that meant conversation.

Hip-hop has two main historical eras, the old school hip-hop era from 1970-1985 and the golden age hip-hop era from 1985-1993. The golden age of hip-hop began only when it entered the mainstream of music and it consolidated the sounds of the West Coast and the East Coast.

The origin of hip-hop music is from African American and West African music. Contributions of griots like The Last Poets, Jalal Mansur Nurriddin, and Gil Scott-Heron were significant in a big way for the advent of hip-hop in the 1960s. Hip-hop had originally begun in the Bronx. Funk and soul music were played a lot in block parties. In the beginning, the DJs at these parties began separating the percussion breaks from hit songs. They started realizing that these breaks were more entertaining and groovy. This technique had become widespread in Jamaica and had spread considerably in the New York community via the Jamaican immigrants.

Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash were the pioneers in the hip-hop industry and other DJs had extended the short percussion interludes of funk records and created a more danceable sound. As a result, remixes had become popular with the advent of mixing and scratching techniques. Many styles of hip-hop had developed in the golden age of hip-hop.

At present, hip-hop is enjoyed all around the world. In spite, of all the controversies created by hip-hop artists they are still growing in number. Hip-hop music is sold all over the world in stores and even online.

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The Best Hip-Hop Album of April 2011 - Fat Boy Fresh Vol 1 by Big Pooh

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About 8 years ago I attended a new hip-hop artist showcase at the club called The Knitting Factory in Manhattan. Even a bit tipsy and still buzzed from having met Guru from Gang Starr a group of cats from North Carolina hit the stage and blew my mind. They called their group Little Brother, which was kind of odd to me at the time but I was certain they were destined for big things. I just knew these country boys were going to blow up.

The Best Hip-Hop Album of April 2011 - Fat Boy Fresh Vol 1 by Big Pooh

Little Brother went on to release six fantastic albums, the best two and hip-hop classics being Chitlin' Circuit Mixtape and The Minstrel Show, but the group never really caught on with the masses. Maybe it had to do with the two members, Phonte and Big Pooh, spreading themselves too thin with side projects and other groups or because we live in a time in which the masses are programmed to "like" certain artists. Whatever the reason in 2010 Phonte and Big Pooh decided to end the group and go their separate ways.

After the demise of the group Little Brother, Phonte easily transitioned into his other project, the group The Foreign Exchange. Many people didn't know what would happen to the other half of Little Brother, Rapper Big Pooh.

I feel that the end of Little Brother might have been the best thing that happened to Big Pooh's career as he can now shine on his on and not compromise on the harder edge he brings to hip-hop. An edge that had to take a backseat to an R&B sound in Little Brother because Phonte wanted to be an R&B singer more than an MC.

This month Phonte released what is actually his third solo album and has really found his sound and does it big for I choose as the best album of the month.

The Best Hip-Hop Album of April 2011 is Fat Boy Fresh Vol.1 by Big Pooh.

With a tremendous ear for beats and a clear love for old hip-hop Big Pooh does an amazing job producing a simple yet driving sound that stays true the genre without electronic gimmicks, out of tune hipster sung hooks and odes to tight jeans wearing punks looking for something cool to play while doing tricks on their skateboards. This is straight grown man hip-hop, like or hate it. I love it and can't get enough of it.

Big Pooh really made a daring move but only putting out a 42 minute 12 song album. Three or four bad songs could have really put an end to his career but the cat comes through like a champ and bangs from start to finish.

The song that I only give three stars out of five is titled Access and although its not a bad song it just seems to over produced and created to appeal to the popular southern sound as if he's looking for a hit instead of maintaining his integrity as an artist. Easy for me to say since it isn't my responsibility to sell his album but I have to be honest. Maybe it'll grow on me but it prolly won't. The rest of the songs are far and away the best hip-hop released in April.

Fat Boy Fresh Vol.1 by Big Pooh, get it today and take pleasure in people stopping to ask you "Who dat is?!?" when you bang it in your trunk.

Program your mp3 player with these tracks:1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,12

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