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By 1986, their releases began to establish the hip-hop album as a fixture of mainstream music. Hip hop music became commercially successful, as exemplified by the Beastie Boys' 1986 album Licensed to Ill, which was the first rap album to hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts. [128]
While a number of people were influential in the creation of hip-hop, much credit is given to Kool Herc (Clive Campbell), a Jamaican immigrant who was the first major hip-hop disc jockey. At a Bronx party on August 11, 1973, he introduced the technique of playing the same album on two turntables and extending the drum section (which became ...
25 wrz 2024 · Hip-hop originated in the predominantly African American economically depressed South Bronx section of New York City in the late 1970s. As the hip-hop movement began at society’s margins, its origins are shrouded in myth, enigma, and obfuscation.
18 paź 2023 · Hip-hop was born in the summer of 1973 at a block party in New York City’s Bronx when DJ Kool Herc extended the beat of a recording using two turntables and a mixer to fade between them, then started emceeing as the music continued.
1 kwi 2023 · Hip-hop’s ubiquity since the 80s has led to any number of genres and subgenres utilising what the music’s founding fathers brought us. Crunk, G-funk, Horrorcore, Miami Bass, Mumble Rap, Brit Garage, Nerdcore… you name it.
Brooklyn-born artist Fab 5 Freddy, who is credited with bridging the gap between New York City's music and visual art worlds, argued that the looping interactivity of the four elements...
11 sie 2023 · Who first started hip hop? New York City’s Afrika Bambaataa became known as ‘the Godfather’. A pioneering DJ and music producer, he organised block parties in the Bronx during the late 1970s.
