I. Hip hop defined as the artistic response to oppression. A way of expression in dance, music, word/song. A culture that thrives on creativity and nostalgia. As a musical art form it is stores of inner-city life, often with a message, spoken over beats of music. The culture includes rap and any other venture spawned from the hip hop style and culture.
             When Hip-Hop is mentioned in the general media, visions of young black men getting arrested, selling drugs, breaking the law and women being depicted as sex objects come to mind. Although all that is being depicted right now, there is more to Hip-Hop than what the media chooses to put out. When the Hard Knock Life tour took place in 1999, the only time the tour was mentioned in mainstream media was when there was a violent incident or if a fight broke out. No one ever mentioned the fact that when the tour was sold out in Houston the crew decided to donate their earnings for the night to the people that suffered or were victims to the Columbine shootings. There is a good side to the Hip-Hop culture. One of the main reasons why a majority of people that view Hip-Hop think that it is all negative is because that is the light that is cast by mainstream media. The original elements of Hip-Hop are Graffiti art, Break dancing, MC battling, and the center of Hip-Hop, DJing. Throughout the years, Hip-Hop has brought out the best in the young musicians, DJ's, dancers, and young artists. Hip-Hop was a genre of music that began on the streets of New York City in the early 1970's. Hip-Hop has had its start in gospel music and jazz music. They all share one main technique that allows the MC and anyone else that's on stage to let the artist know that the audience is with them. didn't just start with people saying lets rap over a beat. People don't seem to understand what hip hop really is. Hip-Hop is a culture. Rap is a branch of Hip-Hop; just the same as praying is a bra...