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1. Word Cloud
I created a word cloud to
effectively show the
different codes and
conventions of Hip Hop. I
made some of the words
larger to indicate the
importance of them
compared to the smaller
words that have least
importance.

3. Where Did Hip Hop Originate?
Hip Hop originated in the 1970’s when an underground movement
known as ‘Hip Hop’ began developing in the South Bronx in New
York City. The underground movement focused on many aspects of
Hip hop today including emceeing (AKA MCing), break beats and
house parties. A well-known Jamaican-born DJ, Clive (Kool Herc)
Campbell was highly influential in the pioneering stage of Hip Hop
music, and helped give Hip Hop the kick start it needed to grow.

4. How did Hip Hop Develop?
Hip Hop had gotten popular outside of the African-American
community in the late 1980’s and by the early 2000’s it had become
one of the most popular genre’s of music listened to on spotify. Hip
Hop is characterized into four main distinct elements which
represents the different ‘manifestations’ of the culture: Rap music
(oral), DJ-ing (aural), B-Boying (physical) and last but not least Graffiti
art (visual). (all four of these elements have sub elements e.g. Rap
music includes freestyle.

5. How has Hip Hop changed music today?
During the late 1980’s Hip Hop artists started to create beats in
studio’s with drum machines, synthesizers and samples from old funk
tracks. Groups such as Public Enemy formed and created a new style
of Political Hip Hop, to challenge the wrong acts of injustice and
racism that was occurring. Then during the 1990’s Hip Hop blew up
further when producers started to use audio editing software's and
digital effects to create alternative styles of Hip Hop such as Jazz,
which was used by artists such as A Tribe. Moreover in 1990’s more
Hip Hop styles started to blow up, the most popular being ‘ganga’
Rap and Hard-core rap by artists such as ‘Nas’ and ‘The Notorious
BIG’ two of the most influential Hard-core rappers to grace Hip Hop.

6. How has Hip Hop changed music today?
Furthermore in the 21st Century, many Hip Hop artists have therefore
emerged due to the increase in popularity for Hip hop music.
Rappers such as Eminem, Kanye West and Kendrick Lamar have all
dominated the Hip Hop genre which has become one of, if not the
most popular genre of music in the world.