2. What is Hip Hop Music?
A form of popular music that
originated among inner-city African-
American youths in the early 1970s,
drawing on rap, funk, street sounds,
and fragments of melody and rhythm
borrowed from
3. A Brief History
• The hip hop phenomenon began in the
late 60’s
• The hip hop generation is known as
those who were born between 1965
and1984
4. A Brief History
• Hip hop is divided into two eras, the
old school era (1970-1985) and the
golden ageera (1985-1993)
• Hip hop was first introduced at Bronx
inNew York by aDJ who went by the
name of “KoolHerc”
5. A Brief History
• Afrika Bambaataa was the first
person to coin the phrase “hip
hop”