The hip hop culture

INTRODUCTION

The hip hop is a North American movement that was born in 1970 in the Latin-American and Afro-American neighborhoods. It was born in the most popular ones like the Bronx or Booklyn.

The hip hop started being a way of expression about poverty and inequality, especially in young people that was in these urban areas in New York.

THE FOUR HIP HOP PILLARS

1. MC: commonly known as "rapper"
2. DJ: mixed rhythms and sounds to create melodies
3. GRAFFITI: are those that fill the streets with colors, shapes and lines, compositions or works known as street art
4. B-BOYING: Is a type of urban dance. 

ORIGINS

It stated in the street parties in ghetto Brothers. In these parties there were many audience who sees other people dancing, MCs rapping while somebody was D Jing music.

The Djs Afrika Bambaataa and Zulu Nation invented the words MCing, DJing, B-boying and Graffiti.

Bambaataa and Zulu Nation

CREATORS

Hip hop started with the New Yorker mafias. Instead of settle accounts by shooting, hey fought dancing.

KIND OF MUSIC

It's made by North American music:

R&B (Rhythm blues)

Jazz

Rock'n Roll

Soul

Blues

Funk

Reggae

Dancehall

ETIMOLOGY OF HIP HOP

The rapper Keith Cowboy and Dj Hollywood used another word instead of disco rap, what it was usually said. They only said Hip Hop.

BATTLES

It is a clash between two groups of B-boys in a circle where one to one place in the center dance routine. It is acquiring greater complexity to the output of each dancer. In a battle groups can perform choreography and routines. Winners sulen be those that have proved more style, rhythm, feeling, insight, originality, knowledge and many other values. There is always a jury that decides the winner B-boy (insert videos of battles).

TICKETS

Top Rocking. Is used whenever Break dance and dance first thing. It is generally used in the battles of Break to open and form the circle of people watching the battle and then capture the attention of this for a few seconds before the footwork. The Top Rocks are Basques, and require a good sense of rhythm and musical hatred for steps to match the rite of the song is playing. Often are usually supplemented with arm movements to give a greater sense of rhythm.

Footwork. It consists basically of the steps performed on the floor as the six step

Freezes. Are the movements in which the B-boy giving a span of years frozen.

Powermoves. Are all the movements that are rotated or seemingly more "powerful or strong transitions are made.

MOVEMENTS

Air flare: is basically rotated using arms equelibrar body side to side in the form of a circle, the feet should not touch the ground.

Windmill: known as mills, is the movement in which a B-boy turns his body to the ground without your legs reach to touch.

Scorpio: is to put your head on the floor and raise your legs like a scorpion.

Fly flash: sideways somersault.

Baby freeze: movement that is done resting her head on the floor and holding the body with one hand on the side and using the other for balance, which is free is to support the knee.

Six step: Variety Footwork is a series of steps that are performed on the floor (we can find within such movements step three, five steps, seven steps and step babylove or 12 etc.).

Handstand: popularly known as pine, is to rest your hands on the floor, lift your legs and keep them in the air remaining in an upright posture.

HandHop-done laying a hand on the ground and jump with this, the other hand should be open and feet opening and closing together.

Flare is to support hands on the floor and rotate the torso with legs without that touch the floor; is known to stand in the Olympic discipline.

FREE: variety of movements that are based on leaving a hand on the floor and spread it with the other foot.

1990: is spinning about yourself leaning in one hand and balancing feet.

2000: has the same mechanism as the 1990 but in this case the support is performed on both hands.

Halos: on the head turns occur at a time to be drawing a circle on the floor. The head support is made on one side of this as the arms are used to give a boost.

Munchmill: is to turn the body on the floor without touching the legs reach a variation, the legs are curled and cross.