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"Hip-hop is the way of portraying skills, creativeness, teaching righteousness and feeding the listeners with knowledge of self."
Hip Hop DJing had no name at the beginning, but the DJ element started in the West Bronx, by a DJ ,who name was Kool DJ Herc. Hip Hop as a Culture was started and named by Afrika Bambaataa in the South Bronx. It is Afrika Bambaataa who pull the 4 elements together: DJing, Dancing (B-Boys, B-Girls), MCing (Rap),and Graffiti all together and gave The 5th Element which was Knowledge,which later he added Knowledge,Culture and Overstanding which holds all of it together.
Kool D.J. Herc
The Father of Hip Hop
Brief History of Hip Hop It all started in the summer of 1973 in New York City... A young man named Kool Herc, having come from Jamaica three years earlier, began spinning in the parks in the South Bronx... What made Herc different than most Invariably, MCs
(Master Of Ceremonies or Mic Controller) began to sprout up..
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The title of "first MC" has been widely debated... Some say it was DJ
Hollywood, but most die-hard historians of hip hop would point to a man in Kool
Herc's crew named Coke La Rock... Rapping started simply as getting on the
microphone and "shouting out" kids at the party -- thanking them for
coming out... Eventually, it evolved into saying catch phrases to excite the
crowd, such as, "Now throw ya hands in the air / And wave em like you just
don't care / And if you got on clean underwear / Let me here you say 'Oh Yeah'
"... At which point, the crowd would yell, "Oh yeah"... This type
of interaction, while the DJ was spinning breaks, led to a more evolved form of
MCing where rappers would brag about themselves (i.e. how fly they were, their
sexual prowess, their lyrical skills, etc...) or just talk about the party...