An Introduction to Hip-Hop

Merry Go Round technique

________: at block parties DJs played percussive breaks of popular songs using two turntables (sometimes more) and a DJ mixer to be able to play breaks from two copies of the same record, alternating from one to the other and extending the "break "to make it repeat continuously, creating the "breakbeat ..

Straight Outta Compton

________ "is their debut solo album released in 1988.

Hip hop music

________: a multicultural exchange that started between African American and Latino American youth from the United States, and young immigrants and children of immigrants from countries in the Caribbean.

Wu Tang

Enter the ________ (36 Chambers) is their debut studio album on Loud Records, released in 1993.

J Dilla

________ is a record producer and rapper who emerged in the mid- 1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit, Michigan (one of my favorite producer)

Wu Tang Clan

The ________ is a Hip Hop group and collective from Staten Island, New York City.

Jamaican

Blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, disco, funk, ________ sound system and bass culture can be seen as influences in the development of hip- hop music.

Golden age

________: Complex production with eclectic samples and musical experiments.

Rap

________: poetry recited rhythmically over musical accompaniment; is a part of hip- hop culture, which emerged in the mid- 1970s.

TR 808 Rhythm Composer

________: one of the earliest programmable drum machines, with which musicians could create their own rhythms rather than having to use preset patterns.

Straight Outta Compton

________ "establishes West Coast hip hop as a vital genre, and Los Angeles as a legitimate "rival "to hip hop's long- time capital New York.

Hip-hop music

a multicultural exchange that started between African American and Latino American youth from the United States, and young immigrants and children of immigrants from countries in the Caribbean

Rap

poetry recited rhythmically over musical accompaniment; is a part of hip-hop culture, which emerged in the mid-1970s

Major elements of hip-hop culture

graffiti art, break-dance, MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, beatboxing, sampling, and producing

Merry-Go-Round technique

at block parties DJs played percussive breaks of popular songs using two turntables (sometimes more) and a DJ mixer to be able to play breaks from two copies of the same record, alternating from one to the other and extending the "break" to make it repeat continuously, creating the "breakbeat."

Mixing

"blending" different records together

Scratching

manually moving the record back and forth on the turntable to create rhythmic patterns with scratchy timbres

TR-808 Rhythm Composer

one of the earliest programmable drum machines, with which musicians could create their own rhythms rather than having to use preset patterns

Golden age

Complex production with eclectic samples and musical experiments