Hip Hop is an honest story of communities around the world and provides the opportunity to increase understanding and create a pathway forward for all of us. The celebration of Hip-Hop history and the study of it is essential to our democracy, our innovation, our voice, and who we are as human beings. Little did we know it would pass!”Ĭongressman Bowman also elaborated on his commitment to the resolution, recalling, “Hip Hop is my life. The bill, co-sponsored by Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) under the. In a statement from UHHM, Bucano explained his involvement, saying, “Back in July, I was asked by Congressman Jamaal Bowman to help review the language being used to create the Resolution designating August 11th as Hip-Hop Recognition Day and November as Hip-Hop History Month. Congress declared November, National Hip-Hop History month In 2021. UHHM is launching its “Know Ya Hop” campaign to commemorate the occasion. The language of the resolution was reviewed by the Universal Hip-Hop Museum Founder and President Rocky Bucano. This November has been declared the inaugural Hip-Hop History Month thanks to a resolution (331) co-sponsored by New York Congressman Jamal Brown and California Congresswoman Maxine Waters. From then on the style has only been refined by artists like Funkmaster Flash, KRS-One, Run DMC, Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar and so many more making it the most popular music genre in the United States in 2020 according to Billboard and MRC Data.US Congress isn’t usually able to agree on much of anything but it looks like the legislative branch has found one thing that Democrats and Republicans won’t fight about: Hip-hop is universal. An example of this can be found in Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”.Īt parties in the 1970s and 80s, the Master of Ceremonies, or MCs, would improvise their own poems over the breaks that the DJs would spin. This is where the writer of the poem would recite their poems aloud to the audience making use of rhythm, cadence, vocal inflection and tone, as well as a combination of poetic elements like storytelling to music. This came about through the combination of Jazz and a style of Poetry popular at the time among the African American diaspora called spoken word. It wasn’t until 1979 that the term “Hip-Hop” would be coined by the rapping trio The Sugarhill Gang in their song “Rapper’s Delight“. Album Art of Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”īut Hip-Hop wasn’t Hip-Hop just yet. He would call this method “The Merry-Go-Round”. One night while he was DJ-ing in The Bronx, he decided to try something new, he would play a break from one song and once it had finished, he would go into the break of another song. This would later be known as looping. From there, inspiration stuck DJ Herc. DJ Tony Tone and DJ Cool Herc, 1979 by Joe ConzoĭJ Herc knew this and began marking that section on his records, returning to that moment to extend the break. This was the section where folks could really let loose and show off their dance moves. This part of the song is where the instruments jam out together with very little vocal additions.
In August of 1973, DJ Kool Herc blew people’s minds developing a method that would extend the best part of a song, the break.
The first elements of Hip-Hop are attributed to DJ Kool Herc in the 1970s. In honor of that, let’s talk about about this truly American art form that’s roots can be traced right back here in New York City! On November 5, 2021, the United States Congress declared November “National Hip-Hop History Month”.
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