The Concise Guide to Hip-Hop Music: A Fresh Look at the Art of Hip Hop, from Old-School Beats to Freestyle Rap
Paul Edwards
Language: English
Pages: 117
ISBN: 1250034817
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In 1973, the music scene was forever changed by the emergence of hip hop. Masterfully blending the rhythmic grooves of funk and soul with layered beats and chanted rhymes, artists such as DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash paved the way for an entire new genre and generation of musicians. In this comprehensive, accessible guide, Paul Edwards breaks down the difference between old school and new school, recaps the biggest influencers of the genre, and sets straight the myths and misconceptions of the artists and their music. Fans old and new alike will all learn something new about the history and development of hip hop, from its inception up through the current day.
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about other musical genres. However, as hip-hop production is grounded in sampling from other music, many beatmakers have an extensive knowledge of other musical genres and obscure records. In fact, being familiar with a huge array of records in many different styles is often considered a key component to being a hip-hop DJ and beatmaker. DJ Premier I used to beg my mother to let me go see Parliament … I went to Chaka Khan with her … [she] took me to a Quincy Jones concert. I’m really big on
from DJing, see here), it also includes the form of dance known as b-boying (commonly referred to as breakdancing by those outside the b-boying community) and also graffiti art. Afrika Bambaataa, along with his Universal Zulu Nation, is widely acknowledged as having grouped these four elements together under the name “hip-hop.” Afrika Bambaataa Hip-hop is different elements dealing with music, rap, graffiti art, b-boys, what you call break boys, or b-girls, what you call break girls.21 The
still use today. He discovered that he could sample small, individual parts of a record (usually drum hits, such as the sound of a kick drum or a snare drum), allowing him to program drum patterns with the sounds sampled from records, instead of the stock drum machine sounds. Evil Dee, Beatminerz Marley was the dude that started us sampling. Because he discovered sampling by accident.… He was sampling some vocals and he sampled a kick or a snare, I think, and that’s when he figured out, like,
records in elaborate ways. DJ Revolution Producers and MCs kinda just shut the door on the DJ; [they] shut him out of the videos, shut him out of actually having a feature on the song, shut him out of getting a shout-out on the record and saying “yo, check my DJ out” … And then when DJs felt like they weren’t getting incorporated, they kind of splintered off into their own little subculture, and that’s when “turntablism” was born, which was strictly about scratching and doing all this other
http://allhiphop.com/2008/02/29/class-of-88-paid-in-full/. 15. Chairman Mao, “Behind the Boards: The Legacy of Marley Marl,” Ego Trip Magazine, January 4, 2012, http://www.egotripland.com/marley-marl-interview-ego-trip-magazine/2/. 16. Kool Moe Dee, There’s a God on the Mic: The True 50 Greatest MCs (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003), 271–274. 17. Chuck Jigsaw Creekmur, “Top 5 Dead or Alive: Ice Cube,” Allhiphop.com, June 8, 2010,
