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		<title>The History Of Rap And Hip Hop Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 01:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The origin of hip-hop can be traced back as far as the ancient tribes in Africa.  Rap has been compared with the chants, drumbeats and foot-stomping African tribes performed before wars, the births of babies, and the deaths of kings and elders.  Historians have reached further back than the accepted origins of hip-hop.  It was born as we know it today in the Bronx, cradled and nurtured by the youth in the low-income areas of New York City.</p>
<p>Fast-forward from the tribes of Africa to the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica in the late sixties.  The impoverished of Kingston gathered together in groups to form DJ conglomerates.  They spun roots and culture records and communicated with the audience over the music.  At the time, the DJs comments werent as important as the quality of the sound system and its ability to get the crowd moving.  Kool Herc grew up in this community before he moved to the Bronx.</p>
<p>During the late sixties, reggae wasnt popular with New Yorkers.  As a DJ, Kool Herc spun rhythm and blues records to please his party crowd.  But, he had to add his personal touch.  During the breaks, Herc began to speak to his audience as he had learned to do in Jamaica.  He called out, the audience responded, and then he pumped the volume back up on the record.  This call and response technique was nothing new to this community whod been reared in Baptist and Methodist churches where call and response was a technique used by the speakers to get the congregation involved.  Historians compare it to the call and response performed by Jazz musicians and was very much a part of the culture of Jazz music during the renaissance in Harlem.</p>
<p>Hercs DJ style caught on.  His partys grew in popularity.  He began to buy multiple copies of the same albums.  When he performed his duties as a DJ, he extended the breaks by using multiple copies of the same records.  He chatted, as it is called in dance hall, with his audience for longer and longer periods.</p>
<p>Others copied Hercs style.  Soon a friendly battle ensued between New York DJs.  They all learned the technique of using break beats.  Herc stepped up the game by giving shout-outs to people who were in attendance at the parties and coming up with his signature call and response.  Other DJs responded by rhyming with their words when they spoke to the audience.  More and more DJs used two and four line rhymes and anecdotes to get their audiences involved and hyped at these parties.</p>
<p>One day, Herc passed the microphone over to two of his friends.  He took care of the turn table and allowed his buddies to keep the crowd hyped with chants, rhymes and anecdotes while he extended the breaks of different songs indefinitely.  This was the birth of rap as we know it.</p>
<p>Hip-hop has evolved from the days of the basement showdowns to big business in the music industry.  In the seventies and eighties, the pioneers and innovators of the rap record was the DJ.  He was the guy who used his turntable to create fresh sounds with old records.  Then, he became the guy who mixed these familiar breaks with synthesizers to produce completely new beats.  Not much has changed in that aspect of hip-hop.  The guy who creates the beat is still the heart of the track.  Now, we call him the producer.  Even though some DJs work as producers as well as DJs (quite a few start out as DJs before they become producers), todays title DJ doesnt carry the same connotative meaning it did in the eighties.  Todays hip-hop producer performs the same tasks as the eightys DJ.</p>
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		<title>The Mixtape Movement And How I Fell In Love With Her</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The mixtape (or sometimes mix tape) has been an awkward symbol of affection for many people.  A story, a theme or an emotion is usually subtlety spelt out over sixty, ninety or a hundred and twenty minutes.  This music art form has gained a new breath of popularity recently, with advancements in the availability of mp3s and the range of marketing available for new bands to publish their work through the Internet.</p>
<p>Since the introduction of the cassette tape, in 1963, and especially after the popularisation of the Sony Walkman brand in the late 1970?s, mixtapes began to appear as a way to share new or rare music with friends.  The Nick Hornby publication High Fidelity and the film of the same name boosted their popularity further, and created a new wave of mixtape enthusiasts.  However, the current trend tends to lean towards the medium of a mix CD, rather than a mixtape.  There are the purists who would argue in favour of the mixtape.  They would point out the extra time and effort it takes to make a mixtape and the look, feel and texture of a tape as opposed to a CD.  These purists believe, and I?m inclined to agree with them, that a mixtape is about more than just music.  Mixtapes make great gifts, and as I mentioned in the first paragraph, whilst they may not be a heart shaped box of chocolates, or a bunch of flowers, they are a gift that lingers in the heart and soul of it?s recipient. A gift you can create with enthusiasm, and devotion, a gift with meaning.</p>
<p>There have been and always will be countless discussions on what makes a perfect mixtape.  Considering the comments I?ve just made, the perfect mixtape would be something as ineffable as love itself.  It would be something personal to you, given by someone who loves you, as you do them.  In music terms, there are too many rules to mention in such a short article.  Of course, you need to find music that your recipient loves, and also try to fit this into your theme or message.</p>
<p>When creating a mixtape, your must have a strong opening, and the first song is the most important.  It must set the scene and tone for the rest of the tape.  The last song must also be strong and leave the listener with the full understanding of your message.  This does not mean however that the tracks that make up the bulk of the tape can be any song that loosely fits the theme.  They must be well thought out, with the receiver in mind.  Weaker songs should be weeded out without a hint of mercy, and new songs brought in to replace them.  The track listing, that is the order the songs go in, should also be crafted, so as to make the tape flow.  With a traditional tape method, instead of a CD you will also have to consider side A and B and the differences between them.  You might want to the tape to start mellow, and end with a rockier edge, you might want the opposite.  The tracks should be placed in a way that makes them seem as if they have always belonged together.</p>
<p>Many people also go as far as to create cover art and inserts for their mixtape or CD, and this further wraps up the idea of creating a personal one of a kind special gift.</p>
<p>Leaving the idea of trying to send a message or express an emotion, there are also many other uses for the mixtape.  I have already mentioned the sharing of new, upcoming music and this is a popular technique used in promoting hip hop, and DJ artists, where the mix refers to the blending of tracks into a continuous piece of music.</p>
<p>Mixtapes however, have the potential to be a promotional tool for any new band, with their fans creating the mixtapes of their favourite independent bands, and then passing these on to their friends.  They might also include more well-known bands, with a similar style.  Mixtape exchanges are a popular way to make new friends and enjoy new music at the same time.</p>
<p>Mixtapes provide an interesting debate about copyright theft, and this is a very real debate considering the illegal downloading of mp3 files through peer-to-peer and bit-torrent networks. This, obviously, doesn?t apply if you wrote the song yourself but even if it?s not your music, a mixtape, made for a friend or a few friends, is usually regarded as ?fair use? under the Copyright Act of 1976.  This becomes a different matter, when the mix is sold or distributed to thousands of strangers.  It seems, in the small scale sharing of music, and mixtapes, there is no harm.</p>
<p>Music after all is made so that it can be played and I think it is this idea of sharing the music that you love, with a friend or someone close to you, that will continue the current fixation of making mixtapes.</p>
<p>&#8212;<br /> Ed Sumner owns two music websites..</p>
<p>http://www.mymixtapefor.com &#8211; is a forum where you can create unique playlists, mixtapes and mix cds and the other members will help you to complete them.</p>
<p>http://www.musicismymiddle.com &#8211; is an online music ezine published every Wednesday (or Tuesday if you sign up), it concentrates on post-punk-electro-indie-import-emo-rock, or combinations of those genres.</p>
<p>They are both great fun, and free to sign up to, so take a look today..</p>
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		<title>The History Of Rap And Hip Hop Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:53:45 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The origin of hip-hop can be traced back as far as the ancient tribes in Africa.  Rap has been compared with the chants, drumbeats and foot-stomping African tribes performed before wars, the births of babies, and the deaths of kings and elders.  Historians have reached further back than the accepted origins of hip-hop.  It was born as we know it today in the Bronx, cradled and nurtured by the youth in the low-income areas of New York City.</p>
<p>Fast-forward from the tribes of Africa to the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica in the late sixties.  The impoverished of Kingston gathered together in groups to form DJ conglomerates.  They spun roots and culture records and communicated with the audience over the music.  At the time, the DJs comments werent as important as the quality of the sound system and its ability to get the crowd moving.  Kool Herc grew up in this community before he moved to the Bronx.</p>
<p>During the late sixties, reggae wasnt popular with New Yorkers.  As a DJ, Kool Herc spun rhythm and blues records to please his party crowd.  But, he had to add his personal touch.  During the breaks, Herc began to speak to his audience as he had learned to do in Jamaica.  He called out, the audience responded, and then he pumped the volume back up on the record.  This call and response technique was nothing new to this community whod been reared in Baptist and Methodist churches where call and response was a technique used by the speakers to get the congregation involved.  Historians compare it to the call and response performed by Jazz musicians and was very much a part of the culture of Jazz music during the renaissance in Harlem.</p>
<p>Hercs DJ style caught on.  His partys grew in popularity.  He began to buy multiple copies of the same albums.  When he performed his duties as a DJ, he extended the breaks by using multiple copies of the same records.  He chatted, as it is called in dance hall, with his audience for longer and longer periods.</p>
<p>Others copied Hercs style.  Soon a friendly battle ensued between New York DJs.  They all learned the technique of using break beats.  Herc stepped up the game by giving shout-outs to people who were in attendance at the parties and coming up with his signature call and response.  Other DJs responded by rhyming with their words when they spoke to the audience.  More and more DJs used two and four line rhymes and anecdotes to get their audiences involved and hyped at these parties.</p>
<p>One day, Herc passed the microphone over to two of his friends.  He took care of the turn table and allowed his buddies to keep the crowd hyped with chants, rhymes and anecdotes while he extended the breaks of different songs indefinitely.  This was the birth of rap as we know it.</p>
<p>Hip-hop has evolved from the days of the basement showdowns to big business in the music industry.  In the seventies and eighties, the pioneers and innovators of the rap record was the DJ.  He was the guy who used his turntable to create fresh sounds with old records.  Then, he became the guy who mixed these familiar breaks with synthesizers to produce completely new beats.  Not much has changed in that aspect of hip-hop.  The guy who creates the beat is still the heart of the track.  Now, we call him the producer.  Even though some DJs work as producers as well as DJs (quite a few start out as DJs before they become producers), todays title DJ doesnt carry the same connotative meaning it did in the eighties.  Todays hip-hop producer performs the same tasks as the eightys DJ.</p>
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<p>Would you like to learn how to <a target=new href=http://www.rapbeattips.com>make your own rap beats</a> and hip hop beats?  You can with the Rap Beats Manual.  <a target=new href=http://www.rapbeattips.com>Create Rap Beats</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The origin of hip-hop can be traced back as far as the ancient tribes in Africa.  Rap has been compared with the chants, drumbeats and foot-stomping African tribes performed before wars, the births of babies, and the deaths of kings and elders.  Historians have reached further back than the accepted origins of hip-hop.  It was born as we know it today in the Bronx, cradled and nurtured by the youth in the low-income areas of New York City.</p>
<p>Fast-forward from the tribes of Africa to the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica in the late sixties.  The impoverished of Kingston gathered together in groups to form DJ conglomerates.  They spun roots and culture records and communicated with the audience over the music.  At the time, the DJs comments werent as important as the quality of the sound system and its ability to get the crowd moving.  Kool Herc grew up in this community before he moved to the Bronx.</p>
<p>During the late sixties, reggae wasnt popular with New Yorkers.  As a DJ, Kool Herc spun rhythm and blues records to please his party crowd.  But, he had to add his personal touch.  During the breaks, Herc began to speak to his audience as he had learned to do in Jamaica.  He called out, the audience responded, and then he pumped the volume back up on the record.  This call and response technique was nothing new to this community whod been reared in Baptist and Methodist churches where call and response was a technique used by the speakers to get the congregation involved.  Historians compare it to the call and response performed by Jazz musicians and was very much a part of the culture of Jazz music during the renaissance in Harlem.</p>
<p>Hercs DJ style caught on.  His partys grew in popularity.  He began to buy multiple copies of the same albums.  When he performed his duties as a DJ, he extended the breaks by using multiple copies of the same records.  He chatted, as it is called in dance hall, with his audience for longer and longer periods.</p>
<p>Others copied Hercs style.  Soon a friendly battle ensued between New York DJs.  They all learned the technique of using break beats.  Herc stepped up the game by giving shout-outs to people who were in attendance at the parties and coming up with his signature call and response.  Other DJs responded by rhyming with their words when they spoke to the audience.  More and more DJs used two and four line rhymes and anecdotes to get their audiences involved and hyped at these parties.</p>
<p>One day, Herc passed the microphone over to two of his friends.  He took care of the turn table and allowed his buddies to keep the crowd hyped with chants, rhymes and anecdotes while he extended the breaks of different songs indefinitely.  This was the birth of rap as we know it.</p>
<p>Hip-hop has evolved from the days of the basement showdowns to big business in the music industry.  In the seventies and eighties, the pioneers and innovators of the rap record was the DJ.  He was the guy who used his turntable to create fresh sounds with old records.  Then, he became the guy who mixed these familiar breaks with synthesizers to produce completely new beats.  Not much has changed in that aspect of hip-hop.  The guy who creates the beat is still the heart of the track.  Now, we call him the producer.  Even though some DJs work as producers as well as DJs (quite a few start out as DJs before they become producers), todays title DJ doesnt carry the same connotative meaning it did in the eighties.  Todays hip-hop producer performs the same tasks as the eightys DJ.</p>
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<p>Would you like to learn how to <a target=new href=http://www.rapbeattips.com>make your own rap beats</a> and hip hop beats?  You can with the Rap Beats Manual.  <a target=new href=http://www.rapbeattips.com>Create Rap Beats</a></p>
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		<title>Yo Is Rap Just Another Four Letter Word?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 05:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flaunting any excessive or anti-social behavior is considered brazen. When it is no longer considered brazen it is proof that it has become embedded as part of our culture. Not to say this is a good thing, after all headhunting was considered a cultural norm in some societies. The question to ask here may be, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Flaunting any excessive or anti-social behavior is considered brazen. When it is no longer considered brazen it is proof that it has become embedded as part of our culture. Not to say this is a good thing, after all headhunting was considered a cultural norm in some societies. The question to ask here may be, was rap ever truly a part of our culture? Will it eventually run out of steam and go the way of things like doing the twist, afro haircuts or break dancing? I for one would argue that it is not truly a part of the American cultural scene, but is a forced, twisted and contrived money machine that appeals to only the basest passions of the youth in our country.</p>
<p>Long before the gangsta element slid over to hip hop the reasoning for the whole genre and style was generally purported to be, to show what life in the hood was like. That worked for a while and it even drew more sympathy from the otherwise estranged. But as lower passions would have it, the style and language of rap began more and more to take on a life and purpose of its own, namelysex. If by some magic stroke sex were temporarily extricated from every rappers thoughts and vocabulary, the entire industry would collapse quicker than the stock market in 1929. Now thats brazen!</p>
<p>Referring to rappers as artist and giving them full press doesnt guarantee that it is really an art form, all it says is that its here. But was it here before? Does it really have anything to do with the African American background, culture or heritage? I propose that it does not. Very few whites have succeeded in rap but even that does not prove that it is necessarily a black cultural thing. Growing up as a boy there were only two black families in our town. One of the boys from those families was my best friend. But to say that gave me even a basic knowledge of the African American culture would be an exaggeration. Later I arrived in the city of New Orleans just after the civil rights laws were passed. My exposure to the black culture increased exponentially. Finally I attended two seminaries the last of which was part of the National Baptist Convention a purely African American denomination. What I discovered about the African American culture will always be one of the greatest excursions of my entire life.</p>
<p>Our entire class would sit before some of the most dignified black gentlemen, professors and wait for the streams of their thoughts, opinion and knowledge to flow down to us. Most exciting was when they shifted their emphasis away from the curriculum and began to divulge elements of their private lives and their past. Life in New Orleans as a black man or women was no easy thing. Stories of their upbringing and their struggles would leave anyone with their heart in their throat. These old gentlemen for me were living examples of courage dignity and the best human qualities. What I learned about black culture in short is this. African Americans have a deep and ancient past; they are people with a lasting heritage.</p>
<p>I am sure that the blatant indulgence of sexual descriptive and four letter words that is raps most prevalent aspect, is not part of their ancient culture and history. It does not accurately depict their culture, their history or any other part of their experience. I dont think my protesting is such a big deal. But Id guess that if my old seminary professors could see and hear todays rap, you would hear the roar raising up from their graves and billowing down many an American avenue.</p>
<p>Rev Bresciani has written many articles over the past thirty years in such periodicals as Guideposts and Catholic Digest. He is the author of two books available on Amazon.com, Alibris, Barnes and Noble and many other places. Rev Bresciani wrote, Hook Line and Sinker or What has Your Church Been Teaching You, published by PublishAmerica of Baltimore MD. He also wrote a book recently released by Xulon Press entitled An American Prophet and His Message, Questions and Answers on the Second Coming of Christ. Rev Bresciani has his own website at <a target=new href=http://americanprophet.org>http://americanprophet.org</a></p>
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		<title>The History Of Rap And Hip Hop Music</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Fast-forward from the tribes of Africa to the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica in the late sixties.  The impoverished of Kingston gathered together in groups to form DJ conglomerates.  They spun roots and culture records and communicated with the audience over the music.  At the time, the DJs comments werent as important as the quality of the sound system and its ability to get the crowd moving.  Kool Herc grew up in this community before he moved to the Bronx.</p>
<p>During the late sixties, reggae wasnt popular with New Yorkers.  As a DJ, Kool Herc spun rhythm and blues records to please his party crowd.  But, he had to add his personal touch.  During the breaks, Herc began to speak to his audience as he had learned to do in Jamaica.  He called out, the audience responded, and then he pumped the volume back up on the record.  This call and response technique was nothing new to this community whod been reared in Baptist and Methodist churches where call and response was a technique used by the speakers to get the congregation involved.  Historians compare it to the call and response performed by Jazz musicians and was very much a part of the culture of Jazz music during the renaissance in Harlem.</p>
<p>Hercs DJ style caught on.  His partys grew in popularity.  He began to buy multiple copies of the same albums.  When he performed his duties as a DJ, he extended the breaks by using multiple copies of the same records.  He chatted, as it is called in dance hall, with his audience for longer and longer periods.</p>
<p>Others copied Hercs style.  Soon a friendly battle ensued between New York DJs.  They all learned the technique of using break beats.  Herc stepped up the game by giving shout-outs to people who were in attendance at the parties and coming up with his signature call and response.  Other DJs responded by rhyming with their words when they spoke to the audience.  More and more DJs used two and four line rhymes and anecdotes to get their audiences involved and hyped at these parties.</p>
<p>One day, Herc passed the microphone over to two of his friends.  He took care of the turn table and allowed his buddies to keep the crowd hyped with chants, rhymes and anecdotes while he extended the breaks of different songs indefinitely.  This was the birth of rap as we know it.</p>
<p>Hip-hop has evolved from the days of the basement showdowns to big business in the music industry.  In the seventies and eighties, the pioneers and innovators of the rap record was the DJ.  He was the guy who used his turntable to create fresh sounds with old records.  Then, he became the guy who mixed these familiar breaks with synthesizers to produce completely new beats.  Not much has changed in that aspect of hip-hop.  The guy who creates the beat is still the heart of the track.  Now, we call him the producer.  Even though some DJs work as producers as well as DJs (quite a few start out as DJs before they become producers), todays title DJ doesnt carry the same connotative meaning it did in the eighties.  Todays hip-hop producer performs the same tasks as the eightys DJ.</p>
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<p>Fast-forward from the tribes of Africa to the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica in the late sixties.  The impoverished of Kingston gathered together in groups to form DJ conglomerates.  They spun roots and culture records and communicated with the audience over the music.  At the time, the DJs comments werent as important as the quality of the sound system and its ability to get the crowd moving.  Kool Herc grew up in this community before he moved to the Bronx.</p>
<p>During the late sixties, reggae wasnt popular with New Yorkers.  As a DJ, Kool Herc spun rhythm and blues records to please his party crowd.  But, he had to add his personal touch.  During the breaks, Herc began to speak to his audience as he had learned to do in Jamaica.  He called out, the audience responded, and then he pumped the volume back up on the record.  This call and response technique was nothing new to this community whod been reared in Baptist and Methodist churches where call and response was a technique used by the speakers to get the congregation involved.  Historians compare it to the call and response performed by Jazz musicians and was very much a part of the culture of Jazz music during the renaissance in Harlem.</p>
<p>Hercs DJ style caught on.  His partys grew in popularity.  He began to buy multiple copies of the same albums.  When he performed his duties as a DJ, he extended the breaks by using multiple copies of the same records.  He chatted, as it is called in dance hall, with his audience for longer and longer periods.</p>
<p>Others copied Hercs style.  Soon a friendly battle ensued between New York DJs.  They all learned the technique of using break beats.  Herc stepped up the game by giving shout-outs to people who were in attendance at the parties and coming up with his signature call and response.  Other DJs responded by rhyming with their words when they spoke to the audience.  More and more DJs used two and four line rhymes and anecdotes to get their audiences involved and hyped at these parties.</p>
<p>One day, Herc passed the microphone over to two of his friends.  He took care of the turn table and allowed his buddies to keep the crowd hyped with chants, rhymes and anecdotes while he extended the breaks of different songs indefinitely.  This was the birth of rap as we know it.</p>
<p>Hip-hop has evolved from the days of the basement showdowns to big business in the music industry.  In the seventies and eighties, the pioneers and innovators of the rap record was the DJ.  He was the guy who used his turntable to create fresh sounds with old records.  Then, he became the guy who mixed these familiar breaks with synthesizers to produce completely new beats.  Not much has changed in that aspect of hip-hop.  The guy who creates the beat is still the heart of the track.  Now, we call him the producer.  Even though some DJs work as producers as well as DJs (quite a few start out as DJs before they become producers), todays title DJ doesnt carry the same connotative meaning it did in the eighties.  Todays hip-hop producer performs the same tasks as the eightys DJ.</p>
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<p>Fast-forward from the tribes of Africa to the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica in the late sixties.  The impoverished of Kingston gathered together in groups to form DJ conglomerates.  They spun roots and culture records and communicated with the audience over the music.  At the time, the DJs comments werent as important as the quality of the sound system and its ability to get the crowd moving.  Kool Herc grew up in this community before he moved to the Bronx.</p>
<p>During the late sixties, reggae wasnt popular with New Yorkers.  As a DJ, Kool Herc spun rhythm and blues records to please his party crowd.  But, he had to add his personal touch.  During the breaks, Herc began to speak to his audience as he had learned to do in Jamaica.  He called out, the audience responded, and then he pumped the volume back up on the record.  This call and response technique was nothing new to this community whod been reared in Baptist and Methodist churches where call and response was a technique used by the speakers to get the congregation involved.  Historians compare it to the call and response performed by Jazz musicians and was very much a part of the culture of Jazz music during the renaissance in Harlem.</p>
<p>Hercs DJ style caught on.  His partys grew in popularity.  He began to buy multiple copies of the same albums.  When he performed his duties as a DJ, he extended the breaks by using multiple copies of the same records.  He chatted, as it is called in dance hall, with his audience for longer and longer periods.</p>
<p>Others copied Hercs style.  Soon a friendly battle ensued between New York DJs.  They all learned the technique of using break beats.  Herc stepped up the game by giving shout-outs to people who were in attendance at the parties and coming up with his signature call and response.  Other DJs responded by rhyming with their words when they spoke to the audience.  More and more DJs used two and four line rhymes and anecdotes to get their audiences involved and hyped at these parties.</p>
<p>One day, Herc passed the microphone over to two of his friends.  He took care of the turn table and allowed his buddies to keep the crowd hyped with chants, rhymes and anecdotes while he extended the breaks of different songs indefinitely.  This was the birth of rap as we know it.</p>
<p>Hip-hop has evolved from the days of the basement showdowns to big business in the music industry.  In the seventies and eighties, the pioneers and innovators of the rap record was the DJ.  He was the guy who used his turntable to create fresh sounds with old records.  Then, he became the guy who mixed these familiar breaks with synthesizers to produce completely new beats.  Not much has changed in that aspect of hip-hop.  The guy who creates the beat is still the heart of the track.  Now, we call him the producer.  Even though some DJs work as producers as well as DJs (quite a few start out as DJs before they become producers), todays title DJ doesnt carry the same connotative meaning it did in the eighties.  Todays hip-hop producer performs the same tasks as the eightys DJ.</p>
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<p>Fast-forward from the tribes of Africa to the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica in the late sixties.  The impoverished of Kingston gathered together in groups to form DJ conglomerates.  They spun roots and culture records and communicated with the audience over the music.  At the time, the DJs comments werent as important as the quality of the sound system and its ability to get the crowd moving.  Kool Herc grew up in this community before he moved to the Bronx.</p>
<p>During the late sixties, reggae wasnt popular with New Yorkers.  As a DJ, Kool Herc spun rhythm and blues records to please his party crowd.  But, he had to add his personal touch.  During the breaks, Herc began to speak to his audience as he had learned to do in Jamaica.  He called out, the audience responded, and then he pumped the volume back up on the record.  This call and response technique was nothing new to this community whod been reared in Baptist and Methodist churches where call and response was a technique used by the speakers to get the congregation involved.  Historians compare it to the call and response performed by Jazz musicians and was very much a part of the culture of Jazz music during the renaissance in Harlem.</p>
<p>Hercs DJ style caught on.  His partys grew in popularity.  He began to buy multiple copies of the same albums.  When he performed his duties as a DJ, he extended the breaks by using multiple copies of the same records.  He chatted, as it is called in dance hall, with his audience for longer and longer periods.</p>
<p>Others copied Hercs style.  Soon a friendly battle ensued between New York DJs.  They all learned the technique of using break beats.  Herc stepped up the game by giving shout-outs to people who were in attendance at the parties and coming up with his signature call and response.  Other DJs responded by rhyming with their words when they spoke to the audience.  More and more DJs used two and four line rhymes and anecdotes to get their audiences involved and hyped at these parties.</p>
<p>One day, Herc passed the microphone over to two of his friends.  He took care of the turn table and allowed his buddies to keep the crowd hyped with chants, rhymes and anecdotes while he extended the breaks of different songs indefinitely.  This was the birth of rap as we know it.</p>
<p>Hip-hop has evolved from the days of the basement showdowns to big business in the music industry.  In the seventies and eighties, the pioneers and innovators of the rap record was the DJ.  He was the guy who used his turntable to create fresh sounds with old records.  Then, he became the guy who mixed these familiar breaks with synthesizers to produce completely new beats.  Not much has changed in that aspect of hip-hop.  The guy who creates the beat is still the heart of the track.  Now, we call him the producer.  Even though some DJs work as producers as well as DJs (quite a few start out as DJs before they become producers), todays title DJ doesnt carry the same connotative meaning it did in the eighties.  Todays hip-hop producer performs the same tasks as the eightys DJ.</p>
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<p>Fast-forward from the tribes of Africa to the ghettos of Kingston, Jamaica in the late sixties.  The impoverished of Kingston gathered together in groups to form DJ conglomerates.  They spun roots and culture records and communicated with the audience over the music.  At the time, the DJs comments werent as important as the quality of the sound system and its ability to get the crowd moving.  Kool Herc grew up in this community before he moved to the Bronx.</p>
<p>During the late sixties, reggae wasnt popular with New Yorkers.  As a DJ, Kool Herc spun rhythm and blues records to please his party crowd.  But, he had to add his personal touch.  During the breaks, Herc began to speak to his audience as he had learned to do in Jamaica.  He called out, the audience responded, and then he pumped the volume back up on the record.  This call and response technique was nothing new to this community whod been reared in Baptist and Methodist churches where call and response was a technique used by the speakers to get the congregation involved.  Historians compare it to the call and response performed by Jazz musicians and was very much a part of the culture of Jazz music during the renaissance in Harlem.</p>
<p>Hercs DJ style caught on.  His partys grew in popularity.  He began to buy multiple copies of the same albums.  When he performed his duties as a DJ, he extended the breaks by using multiple copies of the same records.  He chatted, as it is called in dance hall, with his audience for longer and longer periods.</p>
<p>Others copied Hercs style.  Soon a friendly battle ensued between New York DJs.  They all learned the technique of using break beats.  Herc stepped up the game by giving shout-outs to people who were in attendance at the parties and coming up with his signature call and response.  Other DJs responded by rhyming with their words when they spoke to the audience.  More and more DJs used two and four line rhymes and anecdotes to get their audiences involved and hyped at these parties.</p>
<p>One day, Herc passed the microphone over to two of his friends.  He took care of the turn table and allowed his buddies to keep the crowd hyped with chants, rhymes and anecdotes while he extended the breaks of different songs indefinitely.  This was the birth of rap as we know it.</p>
<p>Hip-hop has evolved from the days of the basement showdowns to big business in the music industry.  In the seventies and eighties, the pioneers and innovators of the rap record was the DJ.  He was the guy who used his turntable to create fresh sounds with old records.  Then, he became the guy who mixed these familiar breaks with synthesizers to produce completely new beats.  Not much has changed in that aspect of hip-hop.  The guy who creates the beat is still the heart of the track.  Now, we call him the producer.  Even though some DJs work as producers as well as DJs (quite a few start out as DJs before they become producers), todays title DJ doesnt carry the same connotative meaning it did in the eighties.  Todays hip-hop producer performs the same tasks as the eightys DJ.</p>
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