1. Rap and Hip Hop

2.  “I’m fascinated by rap and by hip- hop. I think there’s a lot of poetry in it. There’s a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you’d better listen to it pretty carefully, ‘cause it’s important.”  – John F. Kerry

3.  Hip Hop: cultural movement which is focused mainly on the rap style of music  Style includes DJ’ing, break dancing, graffiti art, and rapping

4. What are the elements of hip hop?  Deejaying  Emceeing  Break dancing  Graffiti  Beat boxing

5.  Hip hop music was influenced by disco, and was also a fight against disco  Early hip hop wanted to show a separation between the two styles

6.  The first big rap single was “Rapper’s Delight” by Sugarhill Gang in 1979  Great commercial success  Technically a hip hop song

7.  1981- new wave white band, Blondie- made “Rapture”  1982- Afrika Bambaataa- released “Planet Rock”

8.  1982- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five- “The Message”  Conscious rap- mature art form

9.  1983-1984 early records of Run- DMC and LL Cool J  New school of hip hop  Drum machine-led minimalism  Influences from rock music  Socio-political commentary

10.  Delivered in an aggressive, self- assertive style  Made shorter songs than old school hip hop/rap  By 1986 they were a part of the mainstream

11.  1986- “Fight For Your Right” by Beastie Boys  Licensed to Ill, huge commercial success  First rap album to hit #1 on Billboard charts

12.  “Walk This Way” by Run-DMC  Run-DMC soon became the first rap band to be featured regularly on MTV

13.  Salt-n-Pepa: first female rap group to hit it big  “The Show Stoppa”

14.  "In my death, people will understand what I was talking about."  – Tupac Shakur

15.  Tupac Shakur- rap and philosophy were inspired from the social atrocities faced by blacks.  Rapped about police brutality, poverty, racism, and social abuse

16.  “I’m 23 years old. I might just be my mother’s child, but in all reality, I’m everybody’s child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.”  Tupac Shakur

17.  Rolling Stone Magazine has declared Tupac as the 6 th immortal artist of all time- amongst a list of 100 other artists including Elvis Presley and John Lennon

19.  “Gangsta Rap” emerged in the late 1980’s, going into the 1990’s  Ice-T, N.W.A. were well known names under this type  Gangsta Rap was criticized for references to vandalism, drug use, social vices

20.  Poetry in the rap songs during this time started to fade- starting instead to be more influenced by materialism and commercialism

21.  Reflects violent lifestyles of inner- city American black youths  “6 in the Mornin’” is often considered to be the first gangsta rap song in 1986

22.  NWA is frequently associated with gangsta rap  Lyrics were violent, openly confrontational, shocking, featured profanity  Lyrics were placed over rock guitar driven beats  Hard edged feel

23.  Depicted an outlaw lifestyle of sex, drugs, and violence in inner city America  N.W.A. “Straight Outta Compton” 1988 caused controversy- violent attitudes and inspired protests (even from the F.B.I.!)

24.  Attempts to censor it just made it more attractive to both black and white youth  Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E started off in NWA

25.  Since the 1980’s rap music has influenced both the black and white culture  Slang of hip hop- dis, fly, def, chill, wack all became standard parts of vocabulary  Rap functioned as a voice for a community without access to mainstream media