This document discusses the origins and history of hip-hop music. It traces hip-hop back to African griots and spirituals, and notes its emergence in the Bronx in the 1970s through DJ Kool Herc. Key early hip-hop songs that paved the way include "Rapper's Delight" and Grandmaster Flash's "The Message," which introduced social commentary. The document also examines the rise of artists like Public Enemy and gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A. and how hip-hop continues to evolve with artists like Jay-Z and Kanye West.

2. [Opinion Question:]
Is hip-hop music?
• 1) Yes
• 2) No

3. • African Griots
• Spirituals
• Signifying
• Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes
• Jamaican toasting

5. DJ Kool Herc

6. Hip-Hop originated in:
• 1) The Bronx
• 2) Harlem
• 3) Manhattan
• 4) Wall Street

7. Sugar Hill Records
Sylvia Robinson

9. Sugarhill Gang

10. Chic, “Good Times”

11. “Rapper’s Delight”, 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diiL9bqvalo

12. • Sampling
• Beat and Flow

13. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
“The Message” (1982)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4o8TeqKhgY

14. “It’s Like That” (1983)
“Walk this Way” (1986)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXzWlPL_TKw

15. Which song opened the
door for social commentary
in hip-hop?
• 1) “Walk this Way”
• 2) “The Message”
• 3) “Rapper’s Delight”

16. Public Enemy

17. • “Fight the Power” (1989)
• “911 is a Joke” (1990)
• “By the Time I Get to Arizona” (1991)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaoLy7PHwk

18. “The CNN of the
Ghetto”

19. [Opinion Question:]
Are there types of music that are
bad for you?
• 1) Yes, and hip-hop is one of them
• 2) No
• 3) Yes, but hip-hop is not one of them

20. Gangsta Rap

21. “Straight outta Compton” (1988)

22. Dr Dre

23. Snoop Doggy Dogg

24. Eminem

25. Tupac Shakur
Notorious B.I.G.

26. Jay-Z Kanye West
Watch the Throne (2011)