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