AllHipHop

What Music Instruments Are Best for Making Hip Hop Beats?

When it comes to producing Hip Hop beats, the choice of instruments can make a significant difference. This article explores a range of music instruments that are indispensable in the creation of Hip ...
NPR

How LA proved hip-hop could go global — by staying thoroughly local

As it celebrates its 50th birthday, we are mapping hip-hop's story on a local level, with more than a dozen city-specific histories of the music and culture. Click here to see the entire list. If you ...
JSTOR Daily

Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in Indigenous North America

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. Preface: A NOTE ON LANGUAGE: Black English and Uncensored Mode Preface: A NOTE ...
PBS

Hip-hop turns 50, reinventing itself and swaths of the world along the way

NEW YORK (AP) — It was born in the break, all those decades ago — that moment when a song's vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage. It was then that hip-hop came into the ...
USA Today

What is hip-hop? An attempt to define the cultural phenomenon as it celebrates 50 years

The phenomenon has threaded through society since it was born in the Bronx in 1973. Hip-hop is on radio, television, fashion and sports arenas. This year the movement is celebrating a special birthday ...
CNN

Digging up rap’s roots: How African rhythms birthed American hip-hop

Osmic Menoe was a young kid in South Africa when he first fell in love with hip-hop culture during the late 1980s, at the height of the country’s anti-apartheid movement. But like so many, at first, ...
NOLA.com

Bounce beats: How New Orleans made hip-hop its own

This year, the world is celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop, one of the most significant cultural movements of the 20th century. Although there’s no exact date for the birth of hip-hop — and ...
DancehallMag

20 Hip-Hop Classics Built on Reggae Samples

Hip-Hop Classics Built on Reggae Samples - DancehallMag. Hip hop songs with reggae samples are far more common than casual listeners realise. Hip-hop has been borrowing from reggae since Jamaican-born ...
The Conversation

From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip‑hop and house revolutionized music and culture

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys. At this year’s awards, taking place on Feb. 2, hip-hop and house ...
The Conversation

Street scrolls: The beats, rhymes and spirituality of Latin hip‑hop

As a first-generation college graduate and a Latino from a family that constantly scrambled to make ends meet, there was very little in my upbringing that foreshadowed my current life as a religion ...