Artists like Eminem and Missy Elliot sell millions of records around the world every year. What do they have in common? All of them belong to the diversified world of hip-hop. Hip hop is a genre of music, often known as rap, that originated in the United States during the 1970s and has since become an essential part of modern culture. Its evolution has occurred through different fusions of different types of music. Hip Hop is basically made up of rap and production, and other cultural elements such as beat boxing and break dancing; This type of music has had a great impact on many aspects of our lives, even controversial topics have made it more popular.

Hip Hop music began in the early 1970s as an alternative to violence. Its roots come from African American, West African, and dancehall. The origin of Hip-hop is basically divided into four main stages. Old school hip hop spanned from the early 1970s to 1986. Old school hip hop is the first hip hop music that was played at New York City block parties in the 1970s and early 1970s. The 1980s. The African-American community opposed the playing of disco music on radio stations, and DJs began isolating the percussive breaks of hit songs realizing that these were the most entertaining parts. They expanded on the percussion and created what are now known as “remixes”. About these remixes, the artists began to talk and eventually evolved into rap. The golden age of hip hop lasted until 1992. During these years, hip hop combined with rock music, reggae and techno, developing a new style, which became more and more popular. From 1992 to 1998, the modern era of hip-hop developed. “Gansta Rap” became popular with artists like Dr. Dre and Tupac Shakur. The final era, from 1998 to the present, is the “Jiggy/Bling” era. Artists like Outkast, Busta Rhymes, Eminem, among others, became popular in the southern United States.

Hip hop consists of four main cultural elements: rapping, beatboxing, production, and break dancing. Rap is the central element of hip hop music and consists of delivering rhythmic rhymes with or without a background. Beatboxing is the vocal percussion of hip hop culture. It is the art of creating rhythms, bars and different melodies using the mouth. Production consists of the use of drums, hardware and software sequencers, instrumentation, etc., to create music. Typically, hip hop music production is done by a DJ or producer, who is actually considered the creator of the piece rather than the hip hop artist. Finally, the last cultural element is break dancing, which is a dynamic dance style. It is one of the main elements of hip hop culture and differs from other dances in that it does not have structured or limited positions or steps. It consists of funk styles, handstands, flips, etc.

As a revolutionary type of music, hip hop has had a great social impact on the lifestyle of modern men, affecting many areas of life. During the 1900s, the popularity of a “bling-bling” lifestyle, which centered on symbols of wealth such as money, jewelry, automobiles, and clothing, rose in popularity. This lifestyle popularizes the material side of life. Hip Hop music has also had a huge impact on modern language, creating distinctive slang. Many words created by rappers have been adopted by different people around the world, who make them part of their daily lives. Hip hop’s emphasis on hypermasculinity has also created anti-gay and anti-female issues. Hip hop generally emphasizes masculinity, and its lyrics often denigrate the gay lifestyle. Women are the most common subject of hip-hop songs that evaluate women basically in two different groups: the first, portraying the stereotypical image of a woman who is sexually adventurous and takes advantage of man’s money; and the second, hyperbolically portraying women as royalty, often as “queen” or “princess”. Additionally, hip hop has had a huge impact in the media, including television, print, radio, magazines, and movies.

This type of music has had problems with extreme censorship due to both extreme use of profanity and controversial subject matter. The persuasive use of profanity and graphic images of violence and sex have created censorship in the lyrics, often replaced with “clean” lyrics, which invert the song’s true message. Hip hop music often talks about problems in the modern world, different events like the attack on the World Trade Center and the war in Iraq, and is often a critique of current politics and the world of violence, which is often seen as a insult. Hip hop music often gets a bad rap among whites, who believe it only consists of violent material against whites and women. However, most hip-hop music doesn’t. Hip hop often consists of powerful writing that expresses the hopes and angers of generations and groups of people.

Hip-hop is the first type of music that basically consists of incidental scratches from a record. Its evolution has increased its popularity and quality over the years. Using its cultural elements and its impact on social life, hip hop has evolved from just music to a way of life. It portrays the life of a slowly growing society in the United States. Hip hop, even with its controversy, is often the voice of reason for many issues around the world and a cry for help for extreme violence around the world. This type of music is the best proof that art imitates life.