Christopher Cheung12/3/2014Prof. MontellaDance 181 contemporary danceHip HopHip hop was born in New York with ghetto blacks and Latinos at the end of the 1960s and, starting from peak hip hop, continues to evolve to the present day and towards future. Hip hop is a culture, a type of art that has influenced countries around the world. It's also a kind of empowerment, especially for people of African American descent who wanted an outlet to express themselves uniquely when it originated in the 1970s. When people talk about "hip hop", the initial thought of music and then the dance associated with it comes to mind. But it includes something more: activities such as DJing, break dancing, graffiti and rapping all fall into the category of Hip Hop culture. People also have a unique clothing style and language that can easily distinguish them from strangers. Although hip hop has a relatively short history since its origin over forty years ago, it has evolved and made its way into mainstream culture and has a fascinating journey that takes it to this day. Hip hop has united many people from all over the world. With different cultural styles such as graffiti, breakout, Beatbox, MCing and DJing. These are a way to express who you are. DJing is a technique of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ mixer. MCing is about rapping which refers to "spoken or sung rhyming lyrics with a strong addition. Rapping can be broken down into different things, such as "flow" and "delivery". Another way of saying that rapping is a quick way and Graffiti is a way to express themselves towards political activists and also gangs that mark their territory. Breaking is... in the center of the card... ow, music videos, dance schools and many other places After more than 30 years of the development of hip hop culture, there are no signs of slowing down, in fact it will continue to cluster. Especially in today's society there are many ways to move forward technology. Hip hop was born in the 1970s and has changed a lot in the last 30 years. Hip hop is now part of the mainstream music scene. Also, it is no surprise that artists from different genres collaborate with hip hop artists look at the artists' hip hop music and cultures in moves, television shoes and. commercials. Before different ethnic communities wore different types of clothing to represent themselves and hip hop in their culture. But today all races including Asian, Caucasian and many others have accepted hip hop style or you can say clothing.