Hip hop is an artistic and cultural movement that emerged in the United States in the late 1960s in the African-American and Latin American communities of New York's popular neighborhoods such as Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn, where from the beginning standout manifestations characteristic of the origins of hip Hop; For example, music (funk, rap, blues, DJing), dancing (hustle, uprocking, lindy hop, popping, locking) and painting (spray, bombing, murals, political graffiti). Afrika Bambaataa coined the term hip hop at that time, although years later KRS One, originally from the Bronx, wanted to unify in four the elements of hip hop: MCing (rapping), DJing (turntablism), breakdancing (bboying) and The graffiti. He did this with the idea of ​​simplifying the definition of hip hop; But for many this may be incomplete, as there are other manifestations that would be excluded from this classification, such as beatbox, murals, beatmakin or beats, popping, locking uprocking....
Hip-hop as music emerged in the late 1950s, when block parties became popular in New York City, especially in the Bronx, because of the inaccessibility of its clubs and its people. Nightclubs that existed in affluent areas of the Big Apple, such as The Loft and Studio 54. The street parties were accompanied by funk and soul, until the first DJ's began to isolate the percussion and spread it, since the song became more danceable. This technique was already common in Jamaica (in dub music), which allowed the Jamaican immigrant community to participate in these parties. This beats adaptation was later accompanied by another fresh new technique called rapping (a rhythm-singing technique based on improvisation).
Although there was still time for its massification, which only happened in the early 1980s, the innovations of the Bronx achieved some influence in commercial music (for example, the rap that appears in the middle of the album "Everybody Salsa" by Modern Romance, but especially in the Punk / New Wave area as "The Magnificent Seven" by The Clash and Debbie Harry, of the Blondie group, who signed the first white collaboration in a hit of the genre with "Rapture", where in his In fact, the similarities between the punk scene and hip hop are clear, for example in the assimilation of the "Do it Yourself" philosophy, to mitigate the So much so that the former Sex Pistols manager, the ambitious Malcolm McLaren, did not hesitate to promote this new urban revolution on his 1983 "Duck Rock" album, with Electro and Scratch included, where he saw Deo of his main single, "Buffalo Gals", meant for many young Brits the first encounter with the 4 elements of hip hop.
The first gangsta album Rap to have a massive success among the masses was the Straight Outta Compton (1988) of N.W.A, which sold more than 2.5 million copies. They triumphed with a controversial subject and until now questioned. Drugs, violence or sex are some of the fundamental requirements in the lyrics of the subgenre called gangsta rap, predominant themes in the lyrics of the album. It was said that the music genre gangsta rap began with Ice-T's "Six n 'da Mornin" which from here reached a major boom. Specifically, with the theme "Fuck tha Police", the quartet won the enmity of the law and the FBI, who even expressed in a strong statement dissatisfaction with the band. N.W.A. It had a lasting impact on the world, especially on its land, the west coast.