Planning/Reseach- History of HipHop

In the beginning
Hip hop began in the Bronx in New York City in the 1970s, primarily among African Americans, with some Jamaican influences. The roots of hip hop are found in African American music. One of the first groups the griots of West Africa are a group of traveling singers and poets who are part of an oral tradition dating back hundreds of years. Their vocal style is similar to that of rappers.

Hip hop rise
Hip hop arose during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular in New York City, especially in the Bronx. Block parties incorporated DJs who played popular genres of music, especially funk and soul music. DJs, realizing its positive reception, began isolating the percussion breaks of popular songs.

First recording of hip-hop
The first hip hop recording is widely regarded to be Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight, from 1979. Much controversy surrounds this allegation because some point out that King Tim III by The Fatback Band was released a few weeks before Rapper's Delight. By the 1980’s, all the major elements and techniques of the hip hop genre were in place. Though not yet mainstream, hip hop had permeated outside of New York City; it could be found in cities as diverse as Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Baltimore, Dallas, Kansas City, San Antonio, TX, Miami, Seattle, St. Louis, New Orleans, Houston, and Toronto.



New School hip-hop
The new school of hip hop was a second wave of hip hop music starting from 1983–84 with the early records of Run-D.M.C. and LL Cool J. It began in New York city and by 1986 their releases began to establish hip hop as a fixture of the mainstream. Rap and hip hop became commercially successful, as exemplified by The Beastie Boys' 1986 album Licensed to Ill, which was the first rap album to hit #1 on the Billboard charts.

2000s
In the year 2000, The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem sold over ten million copies in the United States and was the fastest selling album of all time Nelly's debut LP, Country Grammar, sold over nine million copies.