What are hip hop and rap?

The so-called "HIP-HOP DANCE" is the most popular type of street dance. If we look at it from the perspective of dance, it can be divided into two categories: NEWSCHOOL and OLDSCHOOL. How to distinguish these two types? It can be distinguished by age and action or music type.

HIP-HOP is a general term for all kinds of HIP-HOP

In fact, the so-called BREAKINGDANCE or OLDSCHOOL is also a kind of hip-hop. This OLDSCHOOL dance includes LOCKING (lock dance), POPING (mechanical dance), BREAKING (break dance) and WAVE (electric current), which originated from the impromptu dance movements of American street dancers. Most of these street dancers are black or Mexican. Perhaps it is the so-called "entertainment for the poor". Most of these popular street dances originated in Brooklyn, new york, USA (this area is full of poor blacks or Mexicans). These black and Mexican children often dance in the street, naturally forming various factions and developing into different styles.

the evolution of p>HIP-HOP DANCE

and the key to the evolution of OLDSCHOOL to NEWSCHOOL can be traced back to the early music of OLDSCHOOL, which has a very fast beat to match these BREAKING movements. Then, with the evolution of HIP-HOP music, People begin to understand that BREAKING is not suitable for these NEWSCHOOL and HIP-HOP music (because the so-called NEWSCHOOL music is slow, if you make actions such as "windmill" or "footwork" in this slow HIP-HOP music, you will feel no explosive force at all, or even lose your sense of dance. At this time, the dances of OLDSCHOOL and NEWSCHOOL began to separate. It was around 1986. The dance steps of the early NEWSCHOOL were very simple, such as the well-known "runningman", which was seen in the VIDEO of MCHAMMER and Bobby Brown. Perhaps this "explosive" HIP-HOP dance at that time could be called FUNKINGDANCE.

the appearance of p>NEWSCHOOL HIP-HOP

however, from the present perspective, these hip-hop dances, which were popular in the period of MCHAMMER and Bobby Brown, have gradually become OLDSCHOOL. Because at the beginning of 1992, a black dance group called MOPTOP(ELITEFORCE) appeared (composed of HENRYLINK, LOOSEJOINT and BUDDHASTRETCH), and they developed a new style of HIP-HOP, which is called "in situ HIP-HOP". It is not like the big moves, explosive and large-scale movements in the period of MCHAMMER and Bobby Brown, and there is no break dance. Its unique style is to pay attention to the coordination of the body (that is, the rhythm), pay attention to the rhythm of the upper body, and increase a lot of hand movements.

Maybe HENRY was just an unknown street dancer at first, but when Michael Jackson's "Remabethetime”MTV appeared, everyone first saw this so-called in-situ dance. As soon as this new style of dance appeared in MTV, the king of pop music in the world, it immediately set off a wave.

We dare not say what made this Mr. HENRY a hit, but the dance in "Remabethetime" is his masterpiece. Later, in Ma Liya Kelly's "Dreamlover”MTV, we saw a group of black people dancing in a strange style on a grassland. These dances are mixed with HIP-HOP, LOCKING, POPING and WAVE, but they are accompanied by HIP-HOP music with RAP style of "Dreamlover". At that time, it was difficult for us to determine what kind of dance it was, but it was a very important section in the history of the development of NEWSCHOOLHIP-HOP. It was the origin of the popularity of NEWSCHOOL all over the world and it was also a "sin".

the mature stage of p>NEW SCHOOL HIP-HOP

The so-called new school hip-hop, I give him a definition that all kinds of dances are connected in series, with a HIP-HOP or R&; B show it. (This is also a form in the early days of NEWSCHOOL.)

We saw this group of black dance groups led by Henry in this song "R&lover" made incomprehensible dance movements. They put the fast-paced LOCKING dance in R&: B's slow dance rhythm expresses it with a new feeling. They no longer do this kind of action that must be like nunchakus to express LOCKING. They simplify many LOCKING movements. And the standard HIP-HOP left-right rhythm is used to express POPING (machine dance) and LOCKING (lock dance), and WAVE (current) is added to the dance from time to time. Simply put, it is to interpret these old dance steps with new feelings.

Immediately, the new single "Jingle Jingle" released by ZOO, a famous Japanese street dance group and singer, also used this NEWSCHOOLHIP-HOP to express the dance in MTV. If you don't pay attention ... this new style of street dance has become popular all over the world. Later, HENRY worked as a choreographer in Ma Liya Kelly's song "Fantasy" and recently "Honey", followed by the song "Creep" by TLC, a popular and temporarily disbanded women's HIP-HOP group, and MTV in the movie "MIB". We gradually found that this kind of HIP-HOP has begun to mature. (Of course, you can also see HENRY in these MTVs. )

The most famous MTV in the previous period was TLC's "Waterfalls", and the action of "magically shaking shoulders" in MTV made NEWSCHOOLHIP-HOP enter another new stage.

Today's NEW SCHOOL HIP-HOP DANCE

I have to admire the Japanese mind. When this NEWSCHOOLHIP-HOP became popular in Japan, the Japanese developed their own other dance style, which is also difficult for everyone to understand. These Japanese HIP-HOP dancers began to dance the HIP-HOP of NEWSCHOOL with the music of OLDSCHOOL. The origin of NEWSCHOOL is to express the old dance in a new musical style. Now it's an old musical style to interpret new dances. It's really a strange thing.

In action, the NEWSCHOOLHIP-HOP has changed more recently, especially when WAVE (current) is added, it becomes more irregular. From the audience's point of view, it seems that the dancers who dance in these NEWSCHOOL are all "polio" patients, because the body distortion is more severe, and there is no so-called regularity in dancing.

HIP-HOPDANCE is also regional

We can divide it into NEWYORKSTYLE and L.A.STYLE. Things in these two areas are polarized.

For example, NEWYORKSTYLE is the style in which we usually see the body twisted and deformed, and all kinds of street dances are connected in series. Perhaps NEWYORK is HENRY's base camp, so naturally the HIP-HOP style in this area is also more inclined to HENRY's style. With the original dance and the strange distortion of the body and the assembly string of LOCKING (lock dance), POPING (machine dance) and WAVE (electric current), it is not difficult to imagine that it is a kind of black casual style.

and the HIP-HOP of L.A.STYLE, which inherits and continues the hip-hop popular in the period of MCHAMMER and Bobby Brown. The variability of big movements and steps also keeps its explosive characteristics, but many new tricks are added to the changes of movements.

Because HIP-HOP is divided into these two factions, many dancers or magazine media no longer collectively refer to them as HIP-HOPDANCE: they call HIP-HOP in NEWYORKSTYLE NEWSCHOOL. And called L. ASTYLE's HIP-HOP is STREETDANCE.

what exactly is NEWSCHOOLHIP-HOP?

In a word, the HIP-HOP of NEWSCHOOL includes various types of hip-hop, including LOCKING (lock dance), POPING (machine dance), WAVE (electric current) and the rhythms of MCHAMMER and Bobby Brown. I just can't see the shadow of BREAKINGDANCE in NEWSCHOOLHIP-HOP. As mentioned earlier, it combines all kinds of hip-hop styles, perhaps we can say that it is a kind of comprehensive dance. However, the scope of NEWSCHOOLDANCE is wider now: not only many kinds of dances are added, such as POPIN' and BOOGIE, but also the range of materials is wider!

Some people abroad think that the movements of NEWSCHOOL are much simpler than those of windmills and HEADSPIN in the 199s. However, the movements of NEWSCHOOL also need skills, which is similar to the concept of "footwork" in break dancing. Although it is casual, it also contains a lot of skills.

but which is better, OLDSCHOOL or NEWSCHOOL? We cannot really make a distinction or comparison. But I don't know when there will be a street dance with a newer style. At that time ... The NEWSCHOOL that we are now popular will become history and another OLDSCHOOL.