Literally, HIP means hip and HOP means jumping. In fact, it is the floorboard of a life culture. Hip hop includes. Dance. DJ。 MC (a person who performs tongue twisters with a very rhythmic rhythm at a party), graffiti (street graffiti) and cool blackheads, costumes, etc. It is a spirit that goes deep into the black life culture, blending the black language, music, dance, lifestyle and so on.

Hip-hop is also regional.

We can be divided into two types: new york style and LA style. Things in these two fields are polarized. For example, N.Y Style is the body distortion and all kinds of hip-hop styles. Maybe new york is Henry's base camp. So naturally, the hip-hop style in this area is more inclined to Henry's style. Coupled with primitive dance and strange body distortion, as well as the assembly strings of lock (lock dance), Poping (machine dance) and Wave (electric current), it is not difficult to imagine that it is just a leisure style of black people. The L.A.-style Hip-Hop inherits and continues the Hip-Hop dance popular in the period of Mc Hammer and bobby brown, but it also maintains its explosive characteristics. Just add a lot of new tricks to the change of action. Because Hip-Hop is divided into these two factions, many dancers or magazine media are no longer collectively referred to as Hip-Hop dance. They call new york-style hip-hop a new school, but LA-style hip-hop.

There may be many people who think that a loose T-shirt and a pair of pants that look like they will fall off at any time are the style of skateboarding. This statement is actually quite general and rough. Because loose clothing is one of the characteristics of Hiphop culture, and skateboarding is only a major tributary of Hiphop culture. Hip-hop culture emphasizes the central idea of "being yourself, enjoying life and being brave in challenges", which includes many different forms and activities, such as extreme sports such as skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing, stunt roller skating and stunt cycling, as well as music, MC, DJ, hip-hop, ink painting and tattoos. On the spiritual level, they all belong to the category of hip-hop culture. Because of the wide range of branches and the lack of materials for my younger brother, I can only tell you a little bit about the part that is more inclined to dance. If there are some mistakes or omissions, please include and correct them, so as to give you the most correct information and ideas about Hiphop.

Costume In hip-hop culture, clothes are the most accessible to the public. And everyone's impression of oversized clothing is also one of the classic styles. It is said that the origin of this way of dressing is closely related to the origin of Hiphop culture. It turns out that Hiphop culture was developed by so-called second-class citizens in the United States as early as 1970s, that is, colored people such as blacks, Jews and Mexicans (so some people call Hiphop culture a subculture). At that time, the economic situation of colored people in the United States was not as good as that of whites, but more children were born than whites. In order to prevent these fast-growing children from taking off their clothes too quickly, they often buy T-shirts of a larger size, which can not only be worn for a long time, but also be passed down from generation to generation to let their younger brothers wear their old clothes. Coupled with the heavy cultural movement of Hiphop, loose clothes are much more convenient, so it has evolved into a well-known large-size wearing method. However, generosity is not the whole picture of Hiphop dress, and there are still differences in detailed subdivision; Skateboarding friends like to wear skateboarding shoes, which are lighter and more resistant to skateboarding. Street dancers of well-known brands in skateboarding sporting goods, such as DVS, PTS, VOLCOM, Adventure, DC, prefer to wear simple sports shoes of sports brands such as Nike and Adidas, showing a clean and elegant style. It is even said that Adidas shoes are mostly loved by dancers who play floor movements. In street clothing brands, there are well-known ESDJ, Tribe, Joker, Fubu and so on. Tommy hilfiger, POLO Sport, Nautica, OAKLEY and sports brands Nike and Adidas are also very popular among dancers. However, there are styles that distinguish the old school from the new school, the styles of the east coast and the west coast, and so on ... If you want to know clearly, maybe you will have a clearer concept by going to the street clothing store.

Graffiti, that is, street graffiti, is common in alleys, underpasses and subway stations in secondary residential areas in the United States. Painters paint on the wall with spray paint to express their thoughts or ideas or divide the territory by gangs; Originated in the late 1960s, it gradually became a street art, but most government units regarded it as an obstacle to the appearance of the city, so most painters lived a life of hide-and-seek with Tiaobo, or painted on the iron gates of their own or friends' shops. Today, traces of spray paint can be seen in Taipei, Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung, especially the wall behind ATT in Taipei East and the fence outside Dong Yun Textile Factory in Tainan are the most classic, but they were made many years ago, and now they have been destroyed and lost their original appearance.

DJ and MC (music program host &; A DJ refers to an operator who plays a record player. Of course, just playing CDs is not enough. To mix two different songs beautifully, you need to have a good sense of pitch and rhythm. A higher skill is scratch, which is called scraping records to make sharp sound effects; Don't think that as long as you grind your fingers on the record, you should also consider the beat of the song and create changeable sound effects to effectively drive the dancers' emotions. The style of DJ can also be seen from the type of music that DJ likes. Generally speaking, most bars play electronic and house styles, while Hiphop DJ is not common in bars. When it comes to MC, MC doesn't mean that female friends come to visit once a month, but refers to the emcee at the party. In Taiwan Province Province, it is usually performed by a DJ. However, MC is not so easy to be competent. A good MC should be able to arouse people's emotions, talk to people, create rhythms with human voices, and imitate the sounds made by machines such as drums or scratches, so it has evolved into rap techniques such as rap. Therefore, MC singers mostly express their deep humanistic concern or dissatisfaction with social chaos through rap content, and communicate with the audience ideologically.

In fact, the content of Hiphop culture is not limited to this, and even the activities introduced by my brother are only superficial; Because of the lack of knowledge and expression, if you want to have a deeper understanding of Hiphop culture, you are welcome to discuss it together, or you can go to other websites for a more detailed introduction.