Hip Hop is a culture centered around bettering yourself and being positive. There are 4 original elements.
Dance:
Breaking is the ONLY dance realated to hip hop despite what the media tells you. The only 2 adopted elements to the dance is popping and locking. If your not breaking, popping, or locking then your not dancing hip hop.
Music:
DJ: The hip hop art form of playing the music using records and involving scratching and extending beats. The most important element of hip hop, because with the beat there can be no emceeing or dancing.
Emcee: The art of rhyming and rapping. Make sure you understand the difference between "HIP HOP" and "GANGSTER RAP". While gangster rap is still in the catagory of hip hop because of the emcee and dj, it is not part of the hip hop culture because hip hop isn't about being a gangster.
Graffiti:
The visual art form of hip hop often using letters and characters. From tagging to murals using anything from markers to spray cans.
The meaning of hip hop has been lost over time. Its not about dressing a certain way, where your from, what nationality you are, or how much money you have. Its about being yourself, not being a mindless follower, and expressing your own creativity. Hip hop came from the ghetto, and the purpose of it was for people to better themselves. Rather than going out and shooting each other they could dance, or rap, or express themselves through art. Hip hop has been underestimated by a lot of people who don't understand it, and it has literaly saved the lives of a lot of people. Hip hop is just a word, it has been around since the beginning of time even if nobody knew what it was. A person who has never heard of the word hip hop in their life who lives positively and works hard at everything they do is living hip hop more than a person who TRYS to be hip hop, dances, paints, dj's, and emcee's, but doesn't know what it means.
Did you hear KRS One's new hip hop cd?
Hip hop changed my life
Hip hop saved my life
I went to a hip hop event where they had breakers, poppers, lockers, dj's, emcee's, and graff writers.
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A sub genre of main stream hip hop in which rappers boast about their drug dealing or former drug dealing vocation in verses thus glorifying the drug trade. More often than not trap hop often makes references to the lucritave coke trade
Most trap hoppers are southern rappers, see Young Jeezy, T.I, Rick Ross. others that rap about the drug trade (some even before the genre was established) are The Notorious B.I.G, Ghost Face Killah, The Clipse (with their latest album) and so on. trap hoppers dont necescarilly rap about drug dealing all of the time but the majority of there music does make references to it.
examples of trap hop songs are
10 crack Commandments - The Notorious B.I.G.
Kilo - Ghostface Killah, Raekwon
Hustlin - Rick Ross
Thug Motivation 101 - Young Jeezy
trap hop is good rapping but it does set a bad example for impressionable youth by making the drug trade seeem like a viable occupation. trap hop is probably the reason suburban kids think they have to sell drugs to emulate rappers in the mainstream.
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A common glitch quake players could exploit due to poor coding, (back in the older games) that made them harder to hit, as well as allowed them to move faster. Similar glitches are strafe running, and "skiing"(Tribes games 1 and 2) These all move faster than simply walking due to either intentional or unintentional means.
Steve bunny hopped across the map. The noobs on the server were astounded by this feat of bunny hopping.
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Audacity of HOPS, also called the "Beer Summit" is President Obama make-up meeting beer drinking mixer between Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. James Crowley in the Rose Garden of the White House.
drinking Beer in The White House to amend racial tensions , is for sure an Audacity of Hops!
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Hoping from pool to pool; usually done at night, or during the day when people (pool owners) are working. It is the act of running to one neighbours pool jumping in, then running to another pool to jump in,, and continue the cycle.This is all done without getting caught(hopefully).
Kayla: hey matt wanna go pool hopping?
Matt: um, what the hell?
Kayla: come on its fun!
Matt: okay i guesss.. since its so hot.
*2 hours later*
Random guy: GET THE HELL OUTA MA POOL
*ChkCHK* (loads shotgun)
Matt: AHHHHh RUN
Kayla: ahahahahahah
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a cultural movement later bastardized by corporations to give rise to rap
hip hop has substance to it. rap doesn't
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Pop Hop is a word used to describe a song or artist that is trying to pass itself off as Hip Hop but that doesn't have any sort of message or intellagence to it. Any song or artist that rather than improving or furthering the Hip Hop culture serves to tarnish it or take the movement back two steps in its progress. Phrase was coined by Sarah F. in Seattle Washington in 2005.
Laffy Taffy is Pop Hop song.
OR
Master P doesn't do Hip Hop, he is a Pop Hop artist.
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