2. About Hip Hop Music
Hip Hop is a subculture that originated from an African American community during the 1970s
in New York City, specifically in Morris Heights, Bronx, then later has influence to Latin
American communities. While the term is often used to refer to hip hop music, in its broader
sense hip hop culture is characterized by the four elements of rapping, DJing, breaking and
graffiti.
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a music genre consisting
of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming
speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key
stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other
elements include sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing.
While often used to refer to rapping, "hip hop" more properly denotes the practice of the entire
subculture. The term hip hop music is sometimes used synonymously with the term rap music,
though rapping is not a required component of hip hop music; the genre may also incorporate
other elements of hip hop culture, including DJing and scratching, beatboxing, and instrumental
tracks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_music
3. About Pop music
Pop music (a term that originally derives from an abbreviation of "popular") is a genre of
popular music which originated in its modern form in the 1950s, deriving from rock and roll.
The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, even though the
former is a description of music which is popular (and can include any style), whilst the latter
is a specific genre containing qualities of mass appeal. As a genre, pop music is very eclectic,
often borrowing elements from other styles including urban, dance, rock, Latin and country;
nonetheless, there are core elements which define pop. Such include generally short-to-
medium length songs, written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), as well as
the common employment of repeated choruses, melodic tunes, and catchy hooks. So-called
"pure pop" music, such as power pop, features all these elements, using electric guitars,
drums and bass for instrumentation; in the case of such music, the main goal is usually that
of being pleasurable to listen to, rather than having much artistic depth. Pop music is
generally thought of as a genre which is commercially recorded and desires to have a mass
audience appeal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music
4. Top 50 Hip hop artists
1. Run-D.M.C. 27. MC Lyte
2. Public Enemy 28. Gang Starr
3. 2Pac 29. Afrika Bambaataa
4. Eric B. & Rakim 30. Kool G Rap
5. Jay-Z 31. Kurtis Blow
6. OutKast 32. The Roots
7. N.W.A 33. E-40
8. Notorious B.I.G. 34. Common Jay -z
9. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five 35. The Jungle Brothers
10. A Tribe Called Quest 36. Whodini
11. Nas 37. Ghostface Killah
12. Ice Cube 38. Lauryn Hill
13. LL Cool J 39. Eightball & MJG
14. De La Soul 40. Goodie MOB
15. Kanye West 41. Too $hort
16. Scarface 42. Bone Thugs N Harmony
17. Big Daddy Kane 43. Mos Def Kanye West
18. Dr. Dre 44. Salt N Pepa
19. Wu-Tang Clan 45. Busta Rhymes
20. Eminem 46. Digital Underground
21. UGK 47. Lil Wayne
22. Boogie Down Productions 48. Pete Rock & CL Smooth
23. The Beastie Boys 49. The Fugees
50. DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Lil Wayne
24. Slick Rick
25. EPMD Prince
26. Snoop Dogg
5. 25. Petula Clark
Top 50 female pop artists 26. Tori Amos
1. Mariah Carey 27. Mary Wells
2. Whitney Houston 28. Kate Bush
3. Barbra Streisand 29. Ronnie Spector (The Ronettes)
4. Dusty Springfield 30. Toni Braxton
5. Karen Carpenter 31. Cher
6. Brenda Lee 32. Lady Gaga
7. Celine Dion 33. Doris Troy
Fergie
8. Roberta Flack 34. Kelly Clarkson
9. Donna Summer 35. Sade
10. Dionne Warwick 36. Shakira
11. Jackie DeShannon 37. Vanessa Williams
12. Diana Ross 38. Anita Baker
13. Carly Simon 39. Mary Weiss (The Shangri-Las)
14. Lesley Gore 40. Bonnie Tyler
15. Connie Francis 41. Amy Winehouse
16. Laura Nyro
Lady gaga
42. Bette Midler
17. Madonna 43. Cyndi Lauper
18. Linda Ronstadt 44. Beyonce Knowles
19. Christina Aguilera 45. Sinead O'Connor
20. Cass Elliott (Mama's and the Papa's) 46. Melissa Manchester
21. Adele 47. Sheryl Crow
22. Darlene Love 48. Olivia Newton-John
23. Sarah McLachlan 49. Pink
24. Natalie Cole 50. Katy Perry
Katy Perry
6. Top 50 Male pop artists 26. Clay Aiken
1. Tom Jones 27. Roachford
2. Jay Black - (Jay & The Americans) 28. Lionel Ritchie
3. Adam Lopez 29. Luther Vandross
4. Lou Rawls 30. Will Young
5. Julio Iglesias 31. Daryl Hall - (Hall & Oates)
6. Peter Cetera - (Chicago, solo) 32. Kenny Loggins
7. Morten Harket - (A-ha, solo) 33. Barry Gibb - (Bee Gees)
8. George Michael 34. Neil Finn Robbie Williams
9. Bobby Darin 35. Guy Sebastian
10. Michael Jackson 36. Donny Osmond
11. Terence-Trent-Darby 37. Jeffrey Osbourne
12. John Farnham 38. Donny Hathaway
13. Peabo Bryson 39. Jake Shears - (Scissor Sisters)
14. Barry Manilow 40. Daniel Bedingfield
15. Michael Bolton 41. Darren Hayes - (Savage Garden, solo)
16. Robbie Williams - (Take That, solo) 42. Rod Stewart
17. Alexander O'Neal 43. John Oats - (Hall & Oates)
18. Seal 44. Lee Ryan - (Blue, Solo)
19. Elton John 45. Lemar
20. Pat Boone Will young
46. Art Garfunkel
21. Billy Joel 47. Danny Hutton
22. Barry White 48. Mark Anthony
23. Sting 49. Rob Thomas
24. Boy George - (Culture Club, solo) 50. Shane Filan - (Westlife)
25. Andy Bell - (Erasure)
Michael Jackson
7. Fashion Hip hop fashion
Hip hop fashion, also known as urban fashion is a distinctive style of dress
originating with African American youth on the scene of New York City, Los Angeles,
Chicago, Philadelphia, the San Francisco Bay Area, Detroit, Memphis, Virginia,
Atlanta and St. Louis among others. Each city contributed various elements to its
overall style seen worldwide today. Hip hop fashion complements the expressions and
attitudes of hip hop culture in general. Hip hop fashion has changed significantly
during its history, and today, it is a prominent part of popular fashion as a whole across
the world and for all ethnicities.
Male hip hop artists, often dress in t-
shirts, baggy/low fitted jeans,
sweatshirts and trainers; some times
hats and sunglasses . Although females
can often wear the same in the hip hop
industry, many choose not too. For
example this photograph is from the
shooting of Cheryl Coles new video.
She is wearing loose trouser, which are
similar to the male artist clothing. An
overall Stereotyping Hip hop fashion
would be loose fitting, vibrant clothing,
however still a classy look. Hip hop
fashion is constantly in fashion,
however can be classed as “chavy”.
8. Pop fashion
Pop fashion has been popular since the 1990s and currently still, many
people aspire pop artists and try to follow a similar fashion trend. The top
look since 1990 in the pop industry was the Punk style pioneered by the Sex
Pistols, followed by Michael Jackson’s single glove and Madonna’s cone bra
-- her Jean Paul Gaultier-designed Blonde Ambition. Others included
ABBA’s all-white outfits; Kylie Minogue’s hot pants; Frank Sinatra and his
tailored suits; and Spice Girl Geri Halliwell with her Union Flag dress. The
research carried out by PRS for music research revealed that 41% of men
and 39% of women let their music tastes influence their choice of clothing.
Since the rise of pop music, it has become more common for the public’s
dress sense to meet their music tastes. While bands like ABBA got the ball
rolling back in the 1970s, there has been an incredible emergence of new
trends blossoming out of the music industry.
