Hip Hop was born in the 60s when a group of people came from Jamaica in New York. At the beginning this kind of music was a mix from reggae and beats and was used mainly from the drag dealers. Hip Hop music became true at the beginning of the 70s. Firstly this music was developed from the people from the ghettos Bronx, Harlem and Queens and was used mainly from the drag dealers who used it to urge the clients. In the beginning it was the Jamaican DJ Kool Herc. After the Hip hop music came and the Hip hop dance named a break dance. It dated from 60s and was firstly named “Good Foot” and was invented by James Brown. A few years later were created and the old school break group named “Zulu Kings”. The end of the old school break came in 1979 when was created “Rock Steady Crew”. Year after year became more and more steps and different combinations in the dancing, more and more people started to made hip hop and Hip hop culture became very popular .Hip Hop culture still is very popular and we are talking not only about singing, but also for rapping, break and other styles dancing, and of course we don’t have to forget about the popular style of dressing. Appeared and different street dance styles, practicing both from boys and girls. Mainly the hip hop music is connected with the black people, but there are and many white skin rappers and one of the best between them in our days is Eminem.
The gold time for the Hip hop is connected with the names of Big Daddy Kane and Cool G Rap, Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince which won the first Rap Grammy Award - the tremendous success and admittedly for the Hip Hop. On the Hip Hop music scene came also and female bands like Salt’ N ’Pepa, which has very big success with their music. The Hip Hop influences also to a street language and behavior. Even today in most of the films about gangsters, they listen to Hip Hop and Rap music and are dressed in the same way. There are many street dance styles such as shake, grinding, krumping, snap dancing and many more.
As everything else, and the Hip Hop is not the same like before 20 years for example, because each new rapper and dancer leave their own sign on the Hip Hop culture.
