![]() “I just saw all these kids having fun.checking out the whole scene, and it was my first time watching the dance with the music being played.I just immediately became a part of it.” Richard Colón was just 10 when his cousin took him to his first schoolyard bash in 1976. “Ah, I was just blown away,” he says in Jeff Chang’s history of hip hop, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop. Image via Creative Commons user Néstor Baltodano So what is hip hop? All of the above and more-whatever we love enough to bring. Graffiti rises on the Great Wall of China. B-boys and b-girls bust baby freezes in Finland. DJs spin turntables in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Its sounds, styles, and fashions are now in play around the world. Knowledge of self-the moral, social, and spiritual principles that inform and inspire hip hop ways of being.įrom its work-with-what-you-got epicenter in the Bronx, hip hop has rolled outward to become a multibillion-dollar business.Theater and literature-combining hip hop elements and themes in drama, poetry, and stories. ![]()
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