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All in all, Hip-Hop is indeed a unique culture; it's rapidly becoming a dominant form of expression. The music industry which was not so long ago faltering has had a major resurgence. The world has been impacted by this African American creation called Hip-Hop. Consisting of four main elements; graffiti art, break dancing, DJing (cutting & scratching),emceeing (rapping); it's a lifestyle with its own language, style of dress, music and mind set that is continuously evolving.
Hip-Hop music is a genre of R&B. Hip-Hop includes rhythmic poetry put over a musical background consisting of beats combined with digitally isolated sound bites from other recordings. The Sugarhill Gang made the first recording of Hip-Hop in 1979 and the genre began to draw attention in the U.S. in the mid-1980s. The name Hip-Hop comes from one of the earliest phrases used in rap on the song "Rappers Delight" by Sugarhill Gang. "I said a hip-hop, hippie to the hippie, the hip, hip a hop, and you......

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