In fact, this English word itself comes from a meaningless loquacious sentence. The favorite sentence of early black MCs is "to the Hip, the hop, the hibby-hibby, dibby-dibby, hip-hop, and you not stop", in which hip Hop can refer to hip and jump. When many MCs regard this as a way to move their tongues, an incitement to an active atmosphere, this sentence has been given a new meaning.
A few years ago, wearing baggy jeans and skateboarding shoes was once called the Korean Wave Attack. Perhaps many elements of China's hip-hop culture are spread from South Korea, but when you stand on the streets of Tokyo, you will find that the popularity of Japanese hip-hop is even more amazing, even more commercialized than that of the United States, the birthplace of hip-hop music. Whether living in Beijing or Tokyo, the hip-hop generation may not be attracted by hip-hop music itself, but by the clothes, body language and way of thinking it brings.
HIP-HOP literally means hip HOP, and hop means jumping. In fact, it is a general term for life culture. Hip hop includes dancing. DJ。 MC (a person who performs tongue rolling with a very rhythmic rhythm at the party), graffiti (street graffiti) and cool blackheads and costumes. It is a spirit that goes deep into the black life culture. It combines black language, music, dance, lifestyle and so on.
In fact, this English word itself comes from a meaningless loquacious sentence. The favorite sentence of early black MCs is "to the Hip, the hop, the hibby-hibby, dibby-dibby, hip-hop, and you not stop", in which hip Hop can refer to hip and jump. When many MCs regard this as a way to move their tongues, an incitement to an active atmosphere, this sentence has been given a new meaning.
A few years ago, wearing baggy jeans and skateboarding shoes was once called the Korean Wave Attack. Perhaps many elements of China's hip-hop culture are spread from South Korea, but when you stand on the streets of Tokyo, you will find that the popularity of Japanese hip-hop is even more amazing, even more commercialized than that of the United States, the birthplace of hip-hop music. Whether living in Beijing or Tokyo, the hip-hop generation may not be attracted by hip-hop music itself, but by the clothing, body language and way of thinking it brings. The so-called hip-hop actually refers to an American street black culture, including music, dance, graffiti, tattoos and clothes. It is estimated that HIP-HOP originated in BRONX, a black community in new york, USA. They developed the entertainment in their lives into various hip-hop cultures today, giving play to the unique characteristics of blacks, such as rhythm and singing, so as to relieve their emotions and amuse themselves. Because of its optimistic and cheerful characteristics, it gradually spread in the United States and then spread to the whole world; Hit's Hip Hop dance is fashionable and beautiful. No wonder young people can't put it down and join the dance craze. However, it should be noted that this kind of dance is difficult and not suitable for everyone. But if you want to have a deeper understanding of hip-hop culture, or want to join the dance ranks; Pay attention to the detailed introduction:
Hip-Hop originated in 1980s, and the beat of B.P.M is about 90- 1 10, which is translated into hip-hop in Chinese. Life before Hip-Hop was Rap with a little r &；; B, plus the sound effects of various grinding films, belongs to the music that young people love to play since the 1980 s, and Hip-Hop dance literally means Hip；; Hop is a hop and Hip-Hop is a Hip-washing, from which we can see its origin. Hip-Hop contains Rap and r &；; B The complicated rhythm and sound effects of the record player, as well as graffiti on the wall, are also extensions of hip-hop culture. Next, I will introduce Hip-Hop from five aspects. ...
One of the five elements: music
house
It contains many different changes, mainly stress, fast and strong rhythm, which makes dancers feel full of pleasure.
House's golden age appeared in the middle and late 1980s (until today, House is still one of the most important mainstream dance music). In addition to frankie knuckles, Ron Hardy, Larry Hurd, Robert Owens and Steve Hurley were all famous house musicians in the middle and late 1980s, and the latter successfully introduced the means of making house dance music to the public. "At that time, people all over Chicago were busy making family dance music." From 65438 to 0987, House had moved from the underground ballroom in Chicago to new york and the other side of the Atlantic. In Britain, the avant-garde electronic band M/A/R/R/S from 4AD made it to the charts with the house genre "Pump Up Volume", and occupied the number 1 for three weeks in a row.
House's longevity should be attributed to its 4/4 beat structure, which provides a solid overall structure and rich imagination space for the future evolution of dance music. Of course, British electronic musicians and German Trance musicians also contributed.
Here I recommend listening to two songs, namely "Face to Face" and "One More Time" by Daft Punk, an old French band.
Broken beat
Originated in the late 1980s, it is characterized by careless mixing effect, a lot of music changes, fashionable rhythm and fast singing.
"MC" or hip-hop rap
Rap is also called monologue and rap. With a very light bass and interesting rap (rhyming, brisk and musical. ) becomes Hip-Hop Raps, which is a kind of rap. With the popularity of Hip-Hop, recent rap tends to be Hip-Hop style.
It's really hard for a microphone controller (MC) to find an accurate translation. The literal explanation-"celebration host"-is far from conveying the role played by a real MC. In fact, MC is a rapper standing on the stage, a naysayer, and the person who can drive the atmosphere the most (not necessarily black! This was proved by a Chinese American. . . )
DJ (music presenter, mixing, cutting and wiping)
DJ undoubtedly plays an extremely important role in the field of hip hop. How can I put it? B-Boy and MC both need DJ assistance, otherwise they are blind.
DJ plays an important role in hip-hop music. It controls the rotation of records and mixers by hand and makes various unexpected effects. In the impression of ordinary people, the common DJ often slides the vinyl LP back and forth on the turntable, and the other hand repeatedly controls the sound of the left and right turntable on the mixer. In fact, the correct name of this action is "Scratch÷Scratch". Scratch is a combination that is similar to singing in rhythm or in a song, and then increases its variability. However, there is not only "scratch", but also a technique of changing at a certain rhythm with two identical or different records, which is called "Battle". DJ's job is to remix and edit the original music material and derive a new kind of music. These two techniques are commonly used in Hip Hop DJ. However, in scratch and battle, there is no certain norm. Every DJ has considerable freedom and has his own "Free Style".
Introduction of hip-hop album
Lauryn Hill-Lauryn Hill's Wrong Education
The 23-year-old mother sings rap songs and once participated in the performance of Sister's Second Act. In the film, her voice is beautiful, but it attracts the attention of all parties with a black voice. 1996, she appeared as a group of rap&Hip hop, and a cover of Roberta Flack's "Kill Me Gently with His Songs" became popular all over the world! ! Then two of its members, PraMichael and Wyclef Jean, released their solo albums respectively, and finally released her debut album last year! ! This album is mainly Hip hop genre. One of the albums, Doo Wop, won the championship, and the album continued to top the sales list. It also received high praise and evaluation in major music magazines, and was also affirmed by the American Music Award and Grammy Award!
Hip-hop came to the end of 1990s, and Lauryn Hill, who left Fugees at the end of 1998, broke through the wrong education in Lauryn Hill with his own creation, making Hip-hop/r&; This young black woman is the only one in the music world. It is not only the appreciation of the media that makes Lauryn Hill so successful, but the excellent performance of Lauryn Hill's wrong education in The Essence of Music is the basis of all people's admiration. Lauryn succeeded in finding a balance between personal feelings and paying attention to the theme of social hip-hop creation, and put Soul, Reggae and R&; B, retro and innovation go hand in hand. The main task of all rap writing is not that all best-selling albums will lose their original musical characteristics. "Wrong education" is Lauryn Hill's carefully baked hip-hop rye bread. The more you chew it, the more delicious it becomes.
Beast Boy.-You're disgusting.
Beast Boy ... In the best album charts of major magazines last year, Beast Boy's "Hollo Nasty" was an indispensable guest! And this album also proves that the way these three beasts "boys" combine Hip-Hop/Rap with rock music is still unique, too fresh to copy! This is their brand-new limited edition after the album of the same name, and a CD of four songs has been added, including the interstellar remix operated by Jump-Up/Neurofunk player private of Technology of Fresh Kutt, the top ten remixes of Muzik magazine, and the newly remixed Body Movin of Fatboy Slim! This is really a good album, and they push the simple Hip-Hop to another unique realm with new mixing skills.
Della's soul is dead/Della's soul
1989' s debut album "3 feet high and rising" became the name of Della's soul with a distinctive and lovable hippie -hop. However, two years later, De La Soul Is Dead, also produced by Prince Paul, is the ironclad proof of De La Soul's rich creative talent, which shows their strong musical ambition. In terms of lyrics, De La Soul added a lot of black humor and suffocating narratives to this album, such as Ring Ring, which satirizes self-fame, My brother is a cheap head, which is full of emotional rebellion, and even discusses incest in Millie pulls out a pistol at Santa Claus. However, such challenging lyrics are based on light and diverse musical elements, and are interspersed with many short pieces/interludes, which makes "The Soul of Della is Dead" a wonderful novel. Of course, it is definitely a classic of arty hip-hop.
The third element: hip-hop tattoo
Tattoos give people an incredible impression and immediately think that they are exclusive to gangs. In fact, this concept is not suitable for modern times. In recent years, the society has become increasingly open, and the vast number of fans have accepted the cultural communication in Europe, America, Japan and other countries, and tattoos are no longer taboo. Some customers are husband and wife, leaving each other's appearance on their bodies as a sign of love, and some customers see unclean things. Old people suggest tattooing Guanyin or idols to change their fate, and there are many others.
Just like platform shoes, which used to flow in the street, tattoos are spreading among beautiful and handsome men who flaunt avant-garde and trendy. Compared with previous tattoos, most of today's tattoos have been transformed into a pleasure similar to morning makeup. Accurately speaking, most tattoos now choose painting, that is, drawing your favorite color patterns on a certain part of the body with some special pigments. After a period of time, if you don't like this pattern, or want to change it to a new pattern, you can wash off the previous pattern. To some extent, tattoos have been "faked". It is the convenience of this kind of "fake tattoo" that makes young people who pursue novelty, want to show their individuality and worry about regret in the future stand up and try it, so tattoo has almost become a rising fashion.
Of course, there are still quite a few brave people who despise painting and choose real tattoos. They are not afraid of pain, and use the elasticity of life to carve what may be the core of their soul on their skin.
Just as fashion is always born in boys and girls who deliberately pursue trendy trends, tattoos are also the first to appear in these boys and girls. Tattoos are first covered by clothes, or sometimes hidden; Later, when revealing the navel became a fashion, tattoos appeared to decorate the navel; Later, you can see it at the collar. It's like summer in Shenzhen all year round, and it's forced to show your arms and legs by the hot weather, but it just provides an almost natural convenience for the exhibition of tattoos, so you can see colorful spots and tattoos with different patterns in the parts where beautiful women and handsome men can be exposed in civilization. As for whether these tattoos are carved or painted, it is difficult for onlookers to tell the difference between true and false.
Four elements: Hip-hop graffiti
Graffiti art, as a visual vocabulary, has always coexisted with hip-hop culture. Do you still remember that in film noir, you often see some strange words painted outside the station, subway and even train carriages? Actually, it's painting and doodling. These wild, intoxicating and impromptu patterns sprayed on concrete floors, external walls of buildings and subways represent the painter's position on himself or his views and phenomena on society.
But is the spray bottle easy to use? No, wrong. The real painter uses the spray bottle as a brush to paint on the floor, the ground or any place where painting is impossible. A famous painter can combine with clothing and become a fashion of clothing. Painters from all over the world build their own culture and world according to different styles, fonts and colors, which conforms to the unique and unrepeatable spirit of hip-hop.
To be clear, according to China law, it is illegal to doodle in public places.
Five of the five elements: HipHop clothes
In the busy city streets, we can sometimes see that many young people like to wear this way: a wide sweater or an oversized sports coat directly covers their hips, the upper body overlaps inside and outside, the waistband hangs low on the crotch, the trouser legs are directly supported on the ground, and the trouser legs are stacked on the heels, so that the whole person can be safely hidden in a tight clothing cover.
This comfortable and humorous dress style actually comes from African-American families. Originally, in order to save money, brothers and sisters were allowed to wear big clothes worn by brothers and sisters. Over time, such a loose street feeling has been formed.
With the popularity of extreme sports such as Hip——Hop and skateboarding by black people from all over the world, this dress style, which is deeply loved by black musicians and street sportsmen, has also begun to be loved by young people all over the world.
The typical wearing styles of HIP-HOP mainly include: a wide T-shirt with exaggerated Logo, similarly wide casual pants, jeans or sweatpants with side zippers, basketball shoes or workers' boots, fisherman's hats or baseball caps, headscarves with ethnic patterns, and hair dyed into ears of wheat or braided. Corresponding accessories include tattoo Tatoo, silver earrings or nose rings, arm rings, matrix sunglasses, MD walkman, scooter, backpack and so on. Together, these sporadic clothes have formed a hip-hop fashion that has been popular in the United States for 20 years.
When you see a boy dressed like this in the street, he has knitted a long black hair, a long-sleeved cotton shirt, a short-sleeved baseball T-shirt, extra-wide sweatpants, a nail-thick steel bar passing through his left ear bone, a pair of foggy silver headphones hanging around his neck, a pair of skateboarding shoes to strengthen ankle protection and a big square backpack. In any case, they all look like children of Chinese Americans who have just come to visit their relatives. Don't be surprised, this must be a hip-hop fan!
However, as long as you carefully observe, it is not difficult to find that these typical hip-hop costumes can not be called "fresh". In fact, big T-shirts can be seen everywhere, and wide casual pants are not new. Pant jeans have been used by girls to wear tight T-shirts in recent years, and basketball shoes and workers' boots are even more common, not to mention baseball caps, headscarves, earrings, backpacks or sunglasses. Of all the hip-hop devices, the only relatively new one is the scooter, but most children born in the 1970s should remember the "shaved ice" they used to play in kindergarten. It is also a high handlebar, with front and rear wheels and a single pedal in the middle, which is exactly the same as the popular scooter today. Therefore, hip-hop fashion, which seems fresh, is actually not so fresh.
It's not easy to reassemble those ordinary clothes and wear that unprecedented hip-hop feeling. What exactly is hip-hop style? The answer is simple and clear: "You need to feel that way." In short, it is the word "feeling", but to put it more thoroughly, this word includes natural artistic talent, feeling for music and dance, keen sense of touch and taste, very outgoing personality, excellent English ability and sense of humor. In other words, people who want to maximize the feeling of hip-hop are very cool newcomers. Find an English word to describe it, and the most appropriate one is "Smart".