Breaking
A dynamic form of dance, also known as breaking, that was created by African Americans and Puerto Ricans in New York City. This style of dancing is set to hip-hop, funk, or breakbeat music.
Graffiti art
The visual language of the hip-hop community.
Deejaying
Represents the sounds and memories of the hip-hop community.
Beatboxing
A form of vocal percussion that primarily mimics a beatbox drum machine.
Emceeing
Involves the voices and storytellers of the community
Boogaloo
A term that may have roots in the Bantu language (with a meaning of "devilishly good") and has carried various meanings in music and dance, including the following: musical genre created by teenage Cubans and Puerto Ricans that was popular in the United S
Break
The part of the song where an instrumentalist plays an improvised solo.
Burn
Personal improvisational gesture that is designed to insult an opponent and is performed in partnership with a jerk as part of a four-count step or setup to deliver the burn
Cypher
A practice in which people gather in a circle and use rap or dance to display skill in a friendly, sometime aggressive manner.
Drop
A stylized way to get to the floor when breaking or b-boying
Funk styles
A term coined by Timothy "Popping Pete" Solomon to cover the forms and style performed by West Coast Poppers and Lockers to deter people from putting multiple dance forms under one title and to create conversations that differentiated the techniques, form
Hip-house
A musical genre that mixes elements of house music with hip-hop
Locking
A dance style created by Don Campbell, that combines the fluid movements of social dance of the 1970s with short stops or pauses
Los Angeles style
� A loaded phrase. There are few ways of understanding this term. Los Angeles style was inspired by three dances from New York called Shades. These dancers moved to Los Angeles and began working with Janet Jackson. Their approach to choreography was based
Nu style
Shortened term for "New York Style". The term is used in reference to hip-hop dances and culture in New York City.
Popping
A form of dance that consistently contracting one's muscles, especially, the muscles in the neck, biceps, pectorals, and triceps to the tempo of the beat
Rocking/up rock
A b-boying step that involves rocking motions such as top rocking (performed while standing) and floor rocking (performed on the ground)
Vogue
A modern American dance form created in the African America and Latino LGBTQ community, with origins dating back to the early 1900s in Harlem.
Waacking
Form of dance also known as punking. The style of dancing was created in LGBT clubs of Los Angeles during the 1970s disco era.
who was the founding father of hip hop
Clive Campbell known as DJ Kool Here
when and where was hip-hop born
at a birthday party in the bronx august 11 1973 at a birthday party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue
who was the creator of popping
Boogaloo Sam
who invented locking and created the Lockers
Don Campbellock
who created the international hip-hop awareness group Zulu Nation
Afrika Bambaataa
who developed scratching?
DJ Grand Wizard Theodore
who introduced back spinning and perfected the art of scratching by mixing and extending the beats of the same song on two turntables.
Grandmaster Flash
The influential hip-hop group from Hollis, Queens, N.Y., was the first rap act to be nominated for a Grammy and the first to get airplay on MTV. Their hit single "It's Like That" blurred the lines between hip-hop and rock. But it was their cover of Aerosm
Run-DMC
The duo made an enormous splash in the 1980s with seminal hip-hop hits "The Show" and "La-Di-Da-Di." Though the pair parted ways soon after the success of those hits, they would both go on to become pioneers in the genre. Fresh, who could mouth pitch-perf
Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick
Though the members of Public Enemy hailed from the Long Island, N.Y., suburb of Roosevelt, they would revolutionize the hard-core street sound pioneered by others such as KRS-One. Led by Chuck D, who famously claimed that rap music was "the black CNN," th
Public Enemy
The Staten Island, N.Y.-based collective redefined the notion of crew with a 10-member group that worked together as a unit but could also spin off into individual solo careers, thus expanding the group's brand and reach. Their melodious synergy was unriv
Wu-Tang Clan
By tackling issues of sexism, the no-nonsense emcee from Brooklyn, N.Y., broke down the door for other female rappers such as Queen Latifah. With her debut Lyte as a Rock (1988), she became the first female rapper to release a solo album.
MC Lyte
The Newark, N.J.-born emcee was hip-hop's first bona fide female star. Her hit "Ladies First" gave voice to women in a male-dominated art form. Latifah would go on to blaze trails in other media with a successful TV and movie career, eventually earning an
Queen Latifah
The Jersey-based Sugarhill Gang's 1979 hit song "Rapper's Delight" introduced hip-hop to the world. The group was the brainchild of producer Sylvia Robinson, who was considered "the mother of hip-hop." At first, some involved in the hip-hop scene lamented
Sugar Hill Gang
The seminal West Coast group NWA was hip-hop's dark angel. Their music sensationalized gang life, crime and violence, spawning the genre "gangsta rap" and changing hip-hop culture in ways that are still felt today.
NWA
The rapper and hip-hop provocateur put Southern rap (the Dirty South) on the map with hits like "It's Your Birthday." The rapper was the target of a national campaign against obscene music in Florida, making him arguably one of the most controversial hip-
Luther Campbell-2 live crew
The Harlem, N.Y.-born rapper began as a Kool DJ Kurt at his college radio station. After making the transition to emcee in the 1970s, he changed his name to Kurtis Blow. He was the first rap artist signed by a major label, helping usher in hip-hop as a ba
Kurtis Blow
The '80s sensation proved that hip-hop could be funny and melodic, without sacrificing its street cred. His hit single "Just a Friend" earned him legendary status, though shortly after, Markie would maintain a low profile, returning to his DJ roots instea
Biz Markie
The former NWA member solidified West Coast hip-hop with G-funk, which is characterized by synthesizer and bass-heavy beats. But it was as a producer that Dr. Dre paved the way for other West Coast rappers like Snoop Dogg.
Dr. Dre
The late rapper and son of a former Black Panther member, who famously coined the term "thug life," would merge poetry and politics in songs that painted a grim portrait of black life in America. He would go on to become one of hip-hop's most revered rapp
Tupac Shakur
The late Brooklyn, N.Y.-born emcee was a game changer whose early hit "Juicy" displayed his dexterous storytelling that was both humorous and gritty. His style made him one of the most influential rappers of all time, inspiring a generation of hip-hop sta
Notorious B.I.G.
The middle-class trio from the suburbs of Long Island, N.Y., was noted for their heavy sampling of funk, soul and jazz, making them vanguards of an experimental sub-genre, jazz rap. Working with producer Prince Paul, the trio released 3 Feet High and Risi
De La Soul
The hip-hop group from Queens, N.Y., followed the lead of De La Soul by popularizing the fusion of jazz and hip-hop. Like De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest's politically conscious songs provided an alternative to the hardcore gangsta rap that was taking over
A Tribe Called Quest