| The history of hip hop is one that was born upon the | | | | had to find an outlet or a way in which they can also |
| back of a group of silenced youth. Inner city youth felt | | | | be a part of this movement. What they did have was |
| that not only were they not getting a fair shake at a | | | | the ability to draw. This art form which to most is |
| quality life but that they weren't even being heard. Our | | | | considered graffiti was now renamed "tagging" in the |
| history shows that when expression is suppressed | | | | hip hop community. Whether you agree with the way |
| something bad, usually aggressive is about to follow. In | | | | in which they went about showing off their talent, no |
| the case of hip hop thankfully the aggression wasn't | | | | one can take away the fact that they truly were |
| expressed in the form of violence but rather in a | | | | talented. Tagging was when the artist of one clique or |
| movement that would change not only the urban | | | | crew would create a symbol or phrase that was now |
| areas close to its birth but our society as a whole!In | | | | his group's logo and spray paint this on subway trains. |
| the beginning, hip hop wasn't even regarded as hip hop. | | | | Why subway trains and not just walls? Well, the fact |
| In the mid to late 70s young black and Latino youths | | | | that the subway system ran throughout the city was |
| from the Bronx were looking for a way to express | | | | advertisement of his crew to the other respective |
| themselves and started to have open microphones at | | | | crews. It became a game in the sense that if you |
| house parties which they would use to perform a type | | | | could place your tag over top another groups tag you |
| of poetry over any song that was currently playing. | | | | would have essentially performed the hip hop version |
| This was the creation of rap music. Although rapping | | | | of a check mate!So what is hip hop? Hip hop is the |
| may seem easy to a novice the fact of the matter | | | | combination of all three of the above mentioned |
| was not everyone had the talent to express | | | | facets. Rapping, break dancing and graffiti art are all |
| themselves in this manner. So another form of self | | | | equal forms of the hip hop movement. Some may |
| expression related to rap was born in the form of | | | | argue the message that some hip hop sends but the |
| break dancing. People could be found not only at | | | | fact that these men and women are artists is not |
| parties but on street corners with nothing more then a | | | | even debatable. Hip hop was a feeling much before it |
| boom box and a piece of cardboard, dancing for self | | | | ever became a means of expression and it will stay a |
| expression and even for money in some cases. The | | | | way of life long after all of the forms expression is |
| last form of expression is the most controversial one! | | | | gone! |
| Some youth couldn't rap nor could they dance but they | | | | |