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Hip hop music is an American musical genre that developed as part of hip hop culture, which is defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, breaking/dancing and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing. The term rap music is often used synonymously with the term hip hop music, but rap vocals are not required for music to be considered "hip hop".
Creation of the term hip hop is often credited to Keith Cowboy, rapper with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. However, Lovebug Starski, Keith Cowboy, and DJ Hollywood used the term when the music was still known as disco rap. It is believed that Cowboy created the term while teasing a friend who had just joined the U.S. Army, by scat singing the words "hip/hop/hip/hop" in a way that mimicked the rhythmic cadence of marching soldiers. Cowboy later worked the "hip hop" cadence into a part of his stage performance, which was quickly used by other artists such as The Sugarhill Gang in "Rapper's Delight".
Universal Zulu Nation founder Afrika Bambaataa is credited with first using the term to describe the subculture in which the music belonged; although it is also suggested that it was a derogatory term to describe the type of music. The first use of the term in print was in The Village Voice,[8] by Steven Hager, later author of a 1984 history of hip hop.
RAPPER TI BACK IN PRISON
Rapper T.I.'s furlough from prison was cut short last week because prison officials objected to his manager and a reality TV producer riding with him on a trip to a halfway house, according to a prison document.
U.S. marshals removed T.I. from an Atlanta halfway house and placed him in the federal prison in Atlanta a day after his release from the Federal Correctional Center in Forrest City, Arkansas.
The popular hip-hop artist, whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr., is serving an 11-month sentence for violating his parole on a gun conviction. Unless prison officials conclude he did not violate his furlough agreement, he is expected to stay locked up until that sentence is complete on September 29, documents indicated.
JAY-Z & KANYE WEST
RELEASE ARTWORK
Jay-Z and Kanye West released the artwork for their new "Why I Love You" single featuring Mr Hudson, the fourth single from their new "Watch The Throne" album.
LIL WAYNE MAKES HISTORY
Lil Wayne has made history becoming the first rapper to eleven singles debut this week from his new 'Carter IV' album land on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Eight singles debuted this week from Wayne's latest release, including "Mirror" featuring Bruno Mars at No. 16. Combined with the three previous singles on the chart, Wayne's 11 total singles on the chart tie David Cook and Taylor Swift for most simultaneously-charting songs by a solo artist in history.
50 CENT IN STUDIO
G-Unit leader 50 Cent recently hit up the studio with boxing legend Floyd Mayweather and DJ Suss-One to work on Suss-One's new single, "Champion."
HIP HOP VET
TO RETIRE NAME
Hip Hop veteran Mos Def recently told MTV News that he plans to retire his rap name by the end of the year, saying he has lived up to its title and is now ready to move forward. Mos says that he no longer wants to balance his rap name and government name, Dante Terrell Smith.
"I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it. Yasiin. That's it," he revealed. "Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years, it's a name that the streets taught me, a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on. Also, I didn't want to have to deal with having any moniker or any separation between the self that I see and know myself as." (Sucker Free)
KREAYSHAWN TALKS
VMA RUN IN
West Coast's own Kreayshawn recently spokje about the footage that leaked showing her run into Rick Ross at Sunday's Video Music Awards in Los Angeles. Despite talk of violence, Kreayshawn says she is not into gang rivalries.
Minutes after Kreayshawn's manager Stretch got into a tiff with a member from Rick Ross' camp on the 2011 MTV VMAs black carpet, Billboard.com spoke with the Oakland rapper on the matter. "Yeah I don't know, man. It's just gang violence," Kreayshawn told Billboard.com "All that gang stuff I'm not a part of that." Kreayshawn kept her "cool" when hosting the VMAs pre-show until LMFAO came her way. "LMFAO came and they shot this party popper in the air and I thought Rick Ross shot me in the back," Kreayshawn said. (Billboard)
BOW WOW TALKS FATHERHOOD
New Cash Money artist Bow Wow recently spoke about recently becoming a father. No longer 'lil' Bow Wow, the rapper credits becoming a father helping him become a better rapper.
"Fatherhood is beautiful, know what I mean? I can't complain, it made me a better rapper, and a better man," Bow Wow told SOHH. "It made me see life differently. Clearly. It made me turn into a man overnight. I love it. It gets kinda difficult to [spend time in public] because fatherhood is kinda the hot story that's around me right now, everybody wants to know [about us]. I was out in L.A. and everybody's trying their best to get pictures of my daughter, so you know, it's not easy." (SOHH)
Bow Wow went on to open up about dealing with the constant media attention he gets.
"Like I said though, it comes with the territory," he added. "You just gotta block that stuff out and that's what I do. I don't think people understand that sometimes it's hard for me to even deal with fame because even though I had it since I was 13, I'm still a young black man coming from Ohio." (SOHH)
FAN RETURNS WATCH
According to TMZ.com, during his performance at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, Chris Brown had his $22,000 lost. After the white-oyster face watch came loose the R&B singer tried to put it in a safe place but missed his target and it ended up in the crowd.
After he finished his performance, Chris Brown's bodyguard went into the audience and asked if anyone had found the watch and surprisingly an honest fan returned it. "Although Chris did not get to meet the fan, he is very appreciative of the fan's actions," a rep for the singer said. Would you return the watch if you found it?
EMINEM WINS TWO AWARDS
Eminem emerged over a decade ago as an unlikely worldbeater: a white rapper from Detroit with a vexatious obsession with violence and social dysfunction. His pop megasuccess was serendipitous, explicable by no common measuring sticks.
Eminem, nominated in 10 Grammy categories, took two awards in February 2011 for best rap album and best rap solo performance (for the song “Not Afraid”).
He became a multimillion-selling cult figure, trafficking in a peculiar style that has transfixed the world.
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Marshall Bruce Mathers III better known by his stage name Eminem or his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. As well as being a member of D12, Eminem is also one half of the Detroit hip hop duo Bad Meets Evil, with Royce da 5'9". Eminem is one of the best-selling artists in the world and the best selling artist of the 2000s. He is listed and ranked as one of the greatest artists of all time and Rolling Stone magazine has ranked him 82nd on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. He has been declared The King of Hip Hop. Eminem has achieved ten number one albums on the Billboard 200. He has also sold more than 33 million track downloads and 40.9 million albums in the United States alone, and 86 million records worldwide to date.
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