This style of dance included strutting, moon-walking, waving, and angular, robot-like contortions of the body. ... The clothes, the language, the attitude, the actions, the way one walks, talks, and looks are all part of the hip hop culture. ... The word ebonics comes from two separate words, ebony and phonics. ... Therefore, hip hop is a provider and it is an occupation, which gives it two more definitions. ... It is music, language, attitude, actions, clothing, the way one walks, talks, and looks. ...

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With its spread across the world to mainstream audiences, hip-hop has become a synonym for rap music however these two words do not have the same meaning. ... Both types of music depended on pre-recorded sounds, both needed a strong beat to which they either rapped or toasted, third, in both styles they rapped or toasted in sync with the rhythm, and fourth the content of the two styles were similar in nature. In 1967, Jamaican immigrant DJ Kool Herc brought with him to the Bronx, the knowledge of sound systems and the two styles of Jamaican music, dub and toasting. ... Here and other DJ&#...

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It had already been going on since seventy-two or seventy. ... He went on to explain to me how Lee went on to learn how to break real good, and ended up battling and getting served by Crazy Legs, approximately two years afterBeat Street came out. ... The camera would pan the dance floor, showing two B-boys, in the typical B-boy stance, staring at each other. ...

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