Does hip hop have different meanings? How can we understand it?

Category: Education/Science >> Foreign Language Learning Analysis: Hip-Hop is translated as hip hop, and RAP is translated as rap. These two concepts are different.

Hip-Hop is actually not a musical term but a cultural term, including rap, graffiti, hip-hop and DJing. RAP originated in the 1960s, while Hip-Hop as a musical understanding originated in the early 1970s. Its predecessor

It’s RAP (sometimes with a little R (B) added. Hip-Hop literally means Hip is the hip, Hop is jumping on one foot, and together they are a light twist of the hips. It originally referred to the embryonic stage of hip-hop (that is,

What we used to call break dancing) later gradually developed into a huge concept - what we now call Hip-Hop culture also includes those baggy clothes, heavy pure gold jewelry, and people who usually talk like "YoYo?

"what's up?" - in short, it is the lifestyle of black people in slums in the United States and their "style". The origin of Hip-Hop can be summarized by the word "poor". Why should we wear one size larger?

Clothes? In addition to being convenient for movement, the advantage of such large-sized clothes is that they can be worn for many years; why is there graffiti? This thing was first used to mark the division of influence between various gangs in the neighborhood, and then it became more and more beautiful.

Exquisite, it developed into a folk art; why is there hip-hop? Because they didn’t have money to go to dance halls, and racial discrimination still existed at that time, and even those with money might not be able to have fun in white people’s dance halls; why is pure Hip-Hop?

The works are mainly black and must contain foul language? Because these black youths on the street have no future and no hope. They hate it much more than they love it. Even though Hip-Hop culture was only around us in the late 1990s.

But in fact, the Hip-Hop trend started from the United States and swept the entire Western world as early as the 1980s. In 1986, the artists of the Def Jam record company, Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy and Run DMC.

The "Def Jam Tour" triggered a global Hip-Hop craze, and in the 1990s, Dr. Dre's gangster rap, Puff Daddy's Hip-Hop popularity, and rap queens like Missy Elliott appeared.

Waiting for countless Hip-Hopers, they have gradually made this folk music form the most important part of the mainstream music market, easily creating sales of tens of millions of copies. Hip-Hop music has become the most important part of American music.

A major revenue generator in the entertainment industry. Especially the emergence of the handsome young man Eminem in the late 1990s. As a white man, he became the hottest star in the Hip-Hop industry in just one year, completely breaking the racial question of Hip-Hop.

At that time, Elvis Presley was needed to prove that rock music is not just for black people. The emergence of Eminem marked the acceptance of white people by Hip-Hop culture and its spread to the world. Someone asked me if Hip-Hop culture is also a fashionable thing in the United States.

The answer is no.

Hip-Hop culture is a way of life in the United States, just like we have compound life, country life and alley life.

It's a pity that our status in popular culture in today's world is not as important as that of the United States. Otherwise, our farmer brothers or alley skewers might be able to come up with their own style (I'm kidding).

Can’t Hip-Hop Chinese?

Many people think that Chinese is not suitable for Hip-Hop because its pronunciation has no similarity with English from its roots. At the same time, based on this, they conclude that the current Hip-Hop is garbage.

I want to say that this is not right. The quality of Hip-Hop works fundamentally does not lie in its rhythm and soundtrack - these are just "style".

The real essence of Hip-Hop music lies in the content it expresses and the attitude of the creator. At this point, some people have already done a good job.

Taiwan’s Hagou Gang, Dalantang, L.

The A-four cheap guys, including the more popular Magi brothers, are all lovable.

Take the Hagou Gang for example. Their works have criticized old people, teachers, pop singers inside and outside the island, and even fans and themselves. But after listening to them for a long time, you can only say that their criticism is reasonable and has a Hip-Hoper response.

Some goddam temperament and cuteness.

The more important hip-hop groups in the mainland include CMCB (Chinese Rap Brothers), Hide, Kung Fu, Longmen Group, etc.

Their levels are different, and they each have their own characteristics. The only thing they have in common is that they do not use curse words in their words, their content does not involve the country or nation, and they do not even dare to use it to criticize mainstream culture (they debuted earlier)

This is especially true for Bruce Lee and Dai Bing).