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