Hip hop emerged in the 1970s in lower class urban areas and was comprised of four main elements: graffiti art, breakdancing, DJing, and rapping. It started as a form of playful rhyming and developed into a culture with its own music, art, fashion, and language. DJ Kool Herc was influential in developing hip hop music by mixing records to encourage dancing. Early rappers like Grandmaster Flash rapped about topics like sex, drugs, and partying, helping establish rap as a musical genre within hip hop culture. Hip hop culture continues to influence fashion and language over time.

1. Hip Hop (1970-Present)

2. What makes up Hip Hop Hip Hop is the culture from which rap emerged. It consisted of four main elements; graffiti art, break dancing, dj (cuttin and scratching) and emceeing (rapping). Hip Hop is considered a lifestyle with its own language, style of dress, music and mind set that is constantly evolving.

3. How Hip Hop Started Hip Hop started on the East coast in lower class urban areas, mainly in the Black and Latino population. It started on the play grounds with criss-cross style jump roping. Each time the person jumped they had to say a word and had to create phrases that rhymed. From here it evolved in people just emceeing or rapping out in the street about the times and also just to clown each other. Clowning some one was basically when you would diss the person you were rapping against.

4. How Hip Hop Started Cont. The music side of hip hop started when KoolDjHerc meshed two long playing discs together with a turn table. Over his music he would use what is called a MC technique to encourage people to start dancing at his parties. The break dancing part of hip hop started from the dancers at the parties. These dances evolved in to what is now called break dancing.

5. How Hip Hop Started Cont. Both graffiti and fashion played a huge roll in the Hip Hop culture. Graffiti was public art that was used to display how the people felt about political and social issues as well as gangs to mark territory. The fashion of the hip hop culture was largely used to express individuality; it had a functional purpose as well.

6. Graffiti

8. Language The language of hip hop was larglyinfluencial in rap music. It is a battle between the artists to be credited with the new catchy slang term. Some examples would be: Foshizzle- for sure Smokin Trees- Smokin Marijuana BlingBling- Flashy or elaborate jewelry Hater- Some one who is dissing you.