"The act of writing, even if you're complaining about something, is very positive," Josephs told the Amsterdam News in an interview in his Brooklyn apartment, which also serves as a recording-studio.
"We're being fixed into negative images that ID young brothers as being prepared for the jail system," said presenter Lord Cashus D of the hip hop Zulu Nation, whose displays and slide show depicted many images cut from hip hop publications.
Muhammad, James. "Negative images questioned at hip hop meeting. " Chicago Defender 13 Dec.2004 ,ProQuest Newsstand, ProQuest. Web. 7 Feb. 2011. In the 1970s and 1980s, the term MC (short for Master of Ceremonies, and sometimes misrendered emcee) was generally associated with what is now called rapping in hip hop music. MC has also sometimes been reported to stand for Microphone Controller, but this appears to be a backronym Rap music is one of the elements of hip hop; it is a form of rhyming lyrics spoken rhythmically over musical instruments, with a musical backdrop of sampling, scratching and mixing by DJs. Originally rapping was called MCing and was seen as supporting the DJ. B-boying is a form of hip hop dancing which is popularly known as breaking. It consists of top or up rock, footwork, spinning moves (power moves), and freeze. B-boying came from Bronx, NY. The term "B-boy" or "B-boying" was created by Kool Herc who was a DJ spinning at block parties in Bronx back in the days. B-Boys means break boys and they were called so because they dance to the break part of music. Later, by repeating this break part done by DJ, "breakbeats" was born. DJs are the backbone of Hip-Hop. Two turntables and a mixer. Crates of 33 rpm and 45 rpm records. Speakers. Set up in local parks, warehouses, private residences. The DJ would spin the music but here’s the twist: they would only use certain sections of a record. These sections became known as break beats. New audio technology eventually allowed these beats to be looped, but in the beginning – it was done manually by the DJ. Scratching was another twist. The unique sounds made by a record being pulled back and forth forcefully as the record spun. Hip-Hop has evolved since the 1970s. The first record was put on wax in 1979. It was a party/dance song called “Rappers Delight” by the Sugar Hill Gang. In 1982, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five released “The Message”. This is considered by many hip-hop historians as the first social/political rap song ever made. In 1988, two classic albums were released: Public Enemy’s “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back” and Boogie Down Productions “By All Means Necessary”. These two albums were high-powered, pro-black anthologies of incredibly hard-hitting beats and furious rhymes by Chuck D (Public Enemy) and KRS-ONE (BDP). © 2009 - EvolutionHipHop.com | kierniesky@gmail.com * From DJ Revolution's In 12s We Trust : "Evolution" featuring Evidence of Dilated Peoples Words of Brother J of the immortal X-Clan |
