Hip-Hop

Hip-Hop The term hip-hop refers to an American subculture comprising music, break-dancing, and graffiti writing that originated in African American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in New York City in the early 1970s. Music soon became the primary focus of hip-hop culture, and what started as an improvisational form of entertainment at block parties in the South Bronx grew to become a major facet of the popular music industry by the 1990s, and asserted itself as a political force for the first…