Hip-Hops roots go far beyond its emergence at 1520 Sedwick Avenue, then introduced by the infamous DJ Kool Herc, a classic story about the first instance of breaking and rapping over a beat inside a garage house party in the Bronx. ... Much of hip hops quintessence is essentially black in that it pulls from numerous forms of black music, i.e. blues, jazz, gospel, rhythm & blues and soul, each of these genres having origins in the black struggle. ...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate