1. What is Hip Hop?
A way of Life or a way of making
music?

2. Hip Hop originated from the south Bronx
area of New York, originally being a
mixture of emceeing, break
dancing, DeeJaying and graffiti writing.

3. The Term Hip Hop can be broken down and
translated as 'hip' to mean new and
current and 'hop' to describe the way that
the movement never really stuck to one
particular format.

4. Additional elements of the Hip Hop genre
may include beat boxing, whereby a man
or woman may create a looping beat with
their mouths and also sampling where
by synthesizer are used to take old sounds
and create new ones.

5. Rap music stemmed out of Hip Hop
therefore this explains why the two are
often combined although Hip Hop is much
more diverse in terms of the components
that make up its sound.

6. A man named Keith Cowboy (rapper with
grand master flash and the furious five) is
often credited with creating the
combination of the two words Hip Hop. It
is said that he was mocking a friend by
scatting the words hip and hop in
the rhythm similar to that of soldiers
marching, he then went on to use this
combination in his act where it later
caught on with other artists who began to
use it and eventually it developed into the
genre we know today.

7. While it is not fully decided who created
this genre it is a well known fact that Hip
hop is still a developing genre, overtime it
has become a slightly softer and more
electric sounding type of music, even more
recently artists such as Kanye west have
been experimenting with a very soul full
sounding rap style which best fits the hip
hop genre.

8. From the research I have discovered that
hip hop is less about the music and more
about the culture and lifestyle of the
people surrounding it. Therefore I believe
we must include some kind of imagery
which is personal to our hip hop artist in
our groups videos as it will be in keeping
with the genre.