Music and Hip-hop

Music plays an important role in everybody’s lives. It lightens the spirit. It relaxes the mind. It soothes the body from a very stressful day. Basically, music is a therapeutic regimen that benefits a lot of people from all ages and from different walks of life.

Hip-hop music, for one, is considered by many as a music genre that is gaining many waves nowadays especially that such is coupled with hip-hop dance, a dance move famous, mostly among young people. Hip-hop music is also sometimes called as rap music, which is characterized by vocal style that transcends into rhythmic and back beat sounds. This famous hip-hop music actually started during the 1970s by African Americans in Bronx, New York City and became a part of hip-hop culture. As time evolved, hip-hop music of the African Americans mixed with that of the immigrant Latin Americans.

Today, hip-hop music is famous not just among blacks and Latinos, but it has also become a part of music taste among White Americans as well as Asians. Hence, hip-hop is a kind of music that does not only touches the corners of America, but it also conquers all parts of the globe, touching the lives of billions of people who take comfort and solace in music.

The Evolution of Hip-hop Music

Hip-hop music was considered to have originated from African Americans, who migrated to America and brought with them their style of music. Accordingly, during that time, it was not yet called the hip-hop but a kind of rap music - a thing wherein African Americans were famous with at that time. This rap style was mixed with the jazz music and poetry which were the main “ingredient” of hip-hop culture at that time. During the 1970s, hip-hop rose as one of the famous music as it became part of block parties commonly practiced in Bronx, New York. This time, it became part of what was called then as funk music. The one responsible for this kind of transition where the club DJs, mostly Jamaicans who migrated to New York City, wherein they separated the percussion breaks. As a matter of fact, the one considered by many as the godfather of the hip-hop was a Jamaican, Kool Herc. As time went by, a new breed of hip-hop music was born as remixes were made to make a more upbeat and rhythmic sound. Furthermore, many artists who are into rap music have already emerged, making hip-hop sensational.

Presently, the likes of Eminem, Jay-Z, Pitbull, LL Cool J, and Ja Rule are making hit charts for their hip-hop songs. Hip-hop songs are also in collaboration with hip-hop dances, one of the famous dance moves nowadays.

In hindsight, one can truly say that music, such as hip-hop, evolved as time goes by. It evolves as it adjusts with the people through time. What is important here is that music never ceases to become man’s buddy, may it be during good times or bad. It continues to be a solace for many, and an outlet of emotions for others.