Hip Hop Quiz 4
Four Pillars of Rap and Hip Hop
MCing, DJing, Break dancing, graffitti
Blondie Raps
Debra harry and chris stein, pioneered early new wave and punk rock, paid homage to hip hop culture in bronx
Female artists
Roxanne Shante, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte, Manie Love, Salt n Peppa
Disco Misconceptions
Saturday Night Fever with Beegess music offered skewed view
Parents Music Resource Center
Tipper Gore and Susan Baker, lead congressional hearings to force record label warnings, only to black artists, Ice-T Freedom Speech "think i give a **** about a silly bitch named Gore"
Disco Technology
Twin turntables - morphing of songs, 12 inch discs
A Tribe Called Quest
Two MC's: Q Tip and Phife Dawg, ranging style, Native Tongues Collective, improv, "Suck *****" "I left my wallet in el segundo", orginally called just tribe until afrika suggested name change, DJ/Producer: Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Jive Records
Run DMC
brought two genres together with aerosmith recording of "Walk This Way"
DJ Kool Herc
demise because couldnt MC, father of hip hop
Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five
developed peek-aboo/quickmix/scratching doubling backing concept of going back and forth between records, Grand Wizard Theodore was student who first introduced scratching, MC'S: Kid Creole, Raheim, Mr.Ness
House Music
electronic offspring of disco, influenced by european artists and electronic technology. Frankie Knuckles is the father of house music
Melle Mel
grandmaster flash's principal MC
Cold Crush Brothers
hip hop group from bronx
Sugar Hill Gang
influenced by Coke Le Rock, Hank Jackson Guy O'Brien and Wonder Mike
MTV
more oppurtunities for goups, Salt N Peppa, Run DMC, Beastie Boys, Michael Jackson first black artist
Universal Zulu Nation
music-oriented youth organization started by Afrika Bambaataa with core values of "peace, love, utility, and having fun"
Disco
originated by gay black and latino men in NYC nightclubs, gave birth to the DJ, DJ Steve Dahl led "Disco Sucks" campaign , rolling stones published disco sucks. Pioneer DJ's: Frankle Knuckles and Larry Levan
Gangsta Rap
originated in west coast, storytelling life in bronx/compton/sout central, samples from james Brown/Sly/George Clinton/Rick James, Ice T and NWA
Sugar Hill Gang Records
owned by Sylvie Robinson who discovered Hank Jackson and then created Rapper Delights, 17 min long with one take, commercial success
DJ Afrika Bambaataa
pioneer of rap, liked for incorporating aspects of disco, gang member and unvolved in drugs then went to afrika and came back with "People Unity Love and Having Fun:
