{"id":27,"date":"2019-12-15T16:31:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T21:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/giacobbe\/?p=27"},"modified":"2019-12-15T16:31:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T21:31:24","slug":"the-past-and-the-present-hip-hop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/giacobbe\/2019\/12\/15\/the-past-and-the-present-hip-hop\/","title":{"rendered":"The Past and the Present: Hip-Hop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Justin Giacobbe\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Markle\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hip-Hop Final\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

12\/8\/19<\/p>\n

Hip Hop\u2019s Change and Impact<\/p>\n

The evolution of hip-hop is not focused around one event and still occurs in numerous ways today. Graffiti has become a respected and accepted art form, with artists like Banksy and Kaws creating a popular culture behind a once forbidden art. Rapping has continued to dominate the music world and has evolved in ways that the original gangsta rap artists could have never imagined. Breaking has stayed somewhat underground, however, brands such as Red Bull and Monster have made large contributions to the community and trying to globalize the form of dance. Unlike the other core elements of hip-hop, MCing has almost completely died out in a world of digital rapping, where the hyping up of artists and crowds is no longer needed. Through the evolution of each of the core elements, hip-hop stays a changing art form and continues to grow in massive amounts around the world. A culture surrounds hip-hop and while certain elements have been lost, others have grown in massive amounts that no one in the 1970s could have ever imagined.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hip-hop\u2019s beginnings date back to the South Bronx in the late 1960\u2019s. Artists such as Kool Herc and Afrika Bambaataa brought the original sound of hip-hop into the neighborhoods of New York, but their sound would not last long in a genre of so much change. The impact and sound of the original artists gave hope to a declining area that saw much racial discrimination in an era of benign neglect. Corrupt politicians and even the mayor of New York City refused to change policies to help minorities and as the community as a whole was forced back into the South Bronx, hip-hop was seen as an escape from the cruel realities of everyday life. Hip-hop in its truest form could be found in the parks of the Bronx in the 1970s with sound systems blasting out in protest against the unjust treatment that the minorities were facing.