In 1977, in the midst of a heat wave, New York suffered a power outage that began at 9:30 p.m. on July 13, before the city fully recovered until 25 hours later. More than 1,500 stores were looted, as many as 1,000 fires broke out, and around 4,000 people were arrested. according to mythology hip hopstolen electronic material, not only in the dark at night, an “explosion” of the nascent species. However, authoritative voices deny the connection, starting with Afrika Bambaataa, who, along with Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash, form the style’s founding trio. In any case, the loss of consciousness went down in history as a symbol of the multiple organ failure suffered by the megalopolis in the 1970s, and the Bronx was the main area affected; there hip hop was born.
2 “The joy of Rollista”
song performed by sugar hill gangIt was his first rap hit in 1979: number 40 in the United States, number three in the United Kingdom, number one in Canada… In Spain it was translated as ‘El goce del rollista’ and was also a hit. Let’s just say the record illustrates the randomness of hip hop: it doubled the bass line of Chic’s “Good times” (later the writers would reach a monetary settlement with the record label) and borrowed rhymes from Curtis Brown, alias Grandmaster. Jazz. Sugar Hill Records, the company led by Sylvia Robinson, was initially viewed by hip hop artists as a corruption of their collectivist and liberating ideals., but soon Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five house (no less than ‘The Message, for example), the Funky Four Plus One, Crash Crew… would be recording for Blondie’s ‘Rapture’ (1980). It was the first song to reach number one in the United States, and Eminem’s “The Eminem show” (2002) is the best selling hip hop album on the planet with 19.1 million certified copies. A white pop group and a white rapper.
3. Black CNN
Public Enemy’s Chuck D has repeatedly referred to rap music as “”.black american television“Invisible television that black America never had” or “black CNN” since the late ’80s. Public Enemy is perhaps the most political group hip hop has ever had. and therefore perhaps the most menacing and perhaps one of the best. Not because of his political accusation, but sexually,’Banned in the USA‘ (1990) was produced by the hip hop group 2 Live Crew. first LP penalized or rewarded on its cover, unclear, labeled ‘Parent advice: explicit content’ (warning parents: obscene content). Since then, the hip-hop record covers strip has been stamped with the seal adopted by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) under pressure from moral groups. And by no means were they all as funny as in 2 Live Crew.
4. Landing in Torrejón de Ardoz
More or less depending on the source, US military bases played a role in the arrival of rock and roll first to Spain and later the hippie counterculture. Likewise, although communication with foreigners was more fluid by then, they played a role in hip hop’s arrival, placing it more specifically. Torrejon de Ardoz. This population in particular and the Madrid metropolitan area in general were pioneers in the adoption of the new culture. It is no coincidence that it was the first album of the genre made in Spain. “Madrid hip hop” (1989) with themes from DNI, Critical State, Crime Syndicate and QSC. Shortly after, also in 1989, MC Randy & Dj Jonco (immortal class war manifesto ‘Hey, posh’) released another compilation of tracks by Sweet, K Mil, Jungle Kings, Vial Rap, ‘Rap’ in Madrid. ‘ is out. Deadly Code, SSB, Dark Power and Sony & Mony.
5. Gangsta rap
The term coined in the late 1980s hip hop, whose lyrics refer to the illegal lifestyle and that it will soon be an overwhelming majority. Some, glorifies violence, drugs and sexism; for others, it reflects life in black ghettos and the label has a stigmatizing spirit.. The rise of gangsta rap, first Ice-T and NWA, and then Dr. It coincided with Los Angeles becoming a new hotspot for hip hop, with Death Row Records, to be released by Dre, Snoop Dogg, and superstar 2Pac. albums (Tupac Shakur). The response from New York came from Bad Boy Records, the home of the Notorious BIG and once again having great records. The rivalry between the two record labels has turned into a quagmire.On the other hand, like everything related to Death Row boss Suge Knight. 2Pac died on September 13, 1996, after being shot in a car in Las Vegas at the age of 25. Notorious BIG died on March 9, 1997, after being shot in a car in Los Angeles at the age of 24. Neither of the two murders has been officially resolved, although both have given rise to numerous theories. Dozens of hip hop artists (about 50, according to Wikipedia) have been shot and killed in the United States since 1987. The penultimate and commercially smashing mutation of hip hop, Trap owes its name to its name in southern slang (Atlanta, Memphis). ) from places of drug trafficking (‘trap houses’).