Origins of Hip Hop

THE FATHER IS BORN
HIP HOP CLIVE CAMPBELL OTHER WISE KNOWN AS "DJ KOOL HERC" WAS BORN IN KINGSTON JAMAICA, AND WOULD EVENTUALLY BE KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF HIP HOP CULTURE

Afrika Bambaataa is an American DJ from the South Bronx, New York who was instrumental in the early development of hip hop throughout the 1980s.[2] He is one of the three originators of break-beat deejaying,

CITY CHANGES
In 1959 Parks Commissioner Robert Moses began building an expressway through the heart of the Bronx. As a result, the middle class Italian, German, Irish, and Jewish neighborhoods disappeared overnight. In addition, businesses and factories relocated and left this borough. These exiting middle classes and businesses were replaced by poor black and Hispanic families. Accompanying these poor people were crime, drug addiction, and unemployment.

Dub was created by Jamaican DJ's during the 1960'. Reggae records were significantly manipulating and reshaped, usually by removing the vocals from an existing music piece, emphasising the drum and bass parts.

Clive Campbell would later copy this style using Funk and Solo Records of the 1970's.

CLIVE CAMPBELL MIGRATES TO THE BRONX FROM JAMAICA AT AGE 12.
AT SCHOOL BECAUSE OF HIS SIZE AND THE FACT THAT HE WORKED OUT ALLOT. KIDS WOULD REFER TO HIM AS HERCULES, AND EVENTUALLY HE WOULD BECOME A WRITER AND CHANGE HIS NAME TO KOOL HERC

2ND CITY CHANGE
The completion of a 15,382 apartment building on the northern edge of the Bronx near an expressway accelerated the Bronx middle class exodus from comfortable and well-kept apartments.

The large vacancy rate made landlords sold property to professional slumlords. As a consequence of this action the Bronx deteriorated into a neighborhood with many unkept and vacant buildings.

In 1968 in the Bronxdale Houses section of the Bronx, a teenage gang called the Savage Seven and began terrorizing the neighborhood.
As the gang grew, they changed their name to the Black Spades. this group of teenagers laid the groundwork for a surge of street gang activity that would overwhelm the Bronx for the next six years.

The significance of graffiti to hip-hop culture is tremendous; as it was the cornerstone of inner-city self-expression.

It was used heavily by gangs as a way to mark territory and communicate.

Gang activity had reached its peak by 1973. Afrika Bambaataa, head of the Black Spades leaves to start the peaceful Zulu nation and become a DJ.

Times were also changing, park jams, block parties and clubs were becoming more popular. The beginnings of hip hop culture began to form in these venues, and as gang members and former gang members started getting involved in more Hip Hop activities, involvement in the gangs declined.

DJ Kool Herc DJ's his first block party (his sister's birthday) in the Bronx, NY.
Using popular funk and soul records people enjoyed dancing to. he would stretch the instrumental break of the song by using two copies of the same record on two turntables, mixing between the two records to extend the break.