DJ Kool Herc: The Grandfather Of Hip Hop

The beginning of the Hip Hop culture go back to the early 60s, where the African American youth of New York City, residing in the South Bronx area basically invented this culture as combination of 4 basic components; rap music, DJing, b-boying, and Graffiti art. Hip hop itself has gone through many transformations over the years but even with the changes, those 4 components stay within the genre. DJ Kool Herc, referred to as the Grandfather of Hip Hop, used to mix up the original tracks with his own customized voices and yells, giving music a whole new direction of what could generate in the future.

Since start of its genre, hip hop music has been the reason behind masses of debates and disagreements. There are many who contend hip hop music to be a mere glorification of violence, and nothing more than bad influences on those who listen to it. However, there are others who oppose this opinion and consider hip hop music to be a voice for the unheard. The true impacts of hip hop music cannot be represented by taking this debate, and can rather be realized by the increasing variation of this form of music across the globe.

Typically, the main topics you hear in songs today are about jewelry, cars, women, money and drugs. Interestingly enough, there are many rappers that would go far enough to say that the use of such topics can become outdated and not fulfill the real purpose of hip hop with so much materialism being talked about. In other words, materialism is one of the first negative aspects of hip hop culture since the value of affluence it promotes may not be appropriate for the youth. Those reasons are used more and more today as to oppose this whole