A Brief History
of Hip-Hop Culture
A brief history of hip hop and the four elements that fuse to create it:
emceeing, deejaying, breaking and graffiti. A good place to start for a 5 minute
crash course on hip hop culture.
The History Of Rap/Hip Hop
Indepth look at the history of rap and hip hop and describes how it's related to
other forms of expression. Includes Definition Of Hip Hop from Afrika Bambatta,
Grandmaster Flash and Kool Herc, as well as essays from Davey D and guest
columnists on "What is Hip Hop", "What is Rap", "The
History of Hip Hop", "Why is Rap So Powerful" and more. From
daveyd.com
Hip-Hop: Its Roots
and Its Future
Perspective on the roots and future of rap and hip hop with emphasis on
the effects of Grandmaster Flash, Kurtis Blow, the emergence of Gangsta Rap, NWA,
Snoop Dogg, and ties in the killings of Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. From
mrblunt.com
Life
of Notorious Big
Real Audio/Video commentary on how Biggie's life and death affected the rap
community. From Beatminerz Radio on 88 Hip Hop. This is one of those links
that jumps around, so if you're able to peep it, bookmark it, or better yet,
download it.
Professa
Rap's Working Hip-Hop Chronology
...with key dates in the overall history of African-American music and themusic
industry in general.Compiled by Russell A. Potter, Ph.D. -- a.k.a. Professa RAP.
Rap Music
Breaks rap down into the following categories - What Rap Is, The History Of Rap,
The Future Of Rap, Eazy-E: A biography of the Hip-Hop Gangsta's life.
All of these links will be archived here. If you know of any hip hop history links I should add, please forward the title, url and description.
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