| The history of hip hop is one that was born upon the | | | | youth couldn't rap nor could they dance but they had |
| back of a group of silenced youth. Inner city youth | | | | to find an outlet or a way in which they can also be |
| felt that not only were they not getting a fair shake | | | | a part of this movement. What they did have was |
| at a quality life but that they weren't even being | | | | the ability to draw. This art form which to most is |
| heard. Our history shows that when expression is | | | | considered graffiti was now renamed "tagging" in the |
| suppressed something bad, usually aggressive is | | | | hip hop community. Whether you agree with the |
| about to follow. In the case of hip hop thankfully the | | | | way in which they went about showing off their |
| aggression wasn't expressed in the form of violence | | | | talent, no one can take away the fact that they |
| but rather in a movement that would change not | | | | truly were talented. Tagging was when the artist of |
| only the urban areas close to its birth but our society | | | | one clique or crew would create a symbol or phrase |
| as a whole!In the beginning, hip hop wasn't even | | | | that was now his group's logo and spray paint this on |
| regarded as hip hop. In the mid to late 70s young | | | | subway trains. Why subway trains and not just walls? |
| black and Latino youths from the Bronx were looking | | | | Well, the fact that the subway system ran |
| for a way to express themselves and started to | | | | throughout the city was advertisement of his crew |
| have open microphones at house parties which they | | | | to the other respective crews. It became a game in |
| would use to perform a type of poetry over any | | | | the sense that if you could place your tag over top |
| song that was currently playing. This was the | | | | another groups tag you would have essentially |
| creation of rap music. Although rapping may seem | | | | performed the hip hop version of a check mate!So |
| easy to a novice the fact of the matter was not | | | | what is hip hop? Hip hop is the combination of all |
| everyone had the talent to express themselves in | | | | three of the above mentioned facets. Rapping, break |
| this manner. So another form of self expression | | | | dancing and graffiti art are all equal forms of the hip |
| related to rap was born in the form of break dancing. | | | | hop movement. Some may argue the message that |
| People could be found not only at parties but on | | | | some hip hop sends but the fact that these men and |
| street corners with nothing more then a boom box | | | | women are artists is not even debatable. Hip hop |
| and a piece of cardboard, dancing for self expression | | | | was a feeling much before it ever became a means |
| and even for money in some cases. The last form of | | | | of expression and it will stay a way of life long after |
| expression is the most controversial one! Some | | | | all of the forms expression is gone! |