hip hop day 1. 1 st and 2 nd thought: what’s your favorite hip-hop song, or your favorite line?...
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Hip Hop Day 1
1st and 2nd Thought:What’s your favorite hip-hop song, Or your favorite line?Write it down in your binder And please tell us why!Write your answer as a rhymeAnd make sure that it flows!We will rap it for the classSo tell us what you know!
A starter, if you need it:“It all started back when I was __”
DJ Kool Herc Says:
What’s the plan, Drake?
Yo, our goal for today is: “considering different ideas of the origins of hip-hop as a counterculture”1.) What is hip-hop?2.) BORN IN DA BRONX3.) “HIP-HOP DID NOT BEGIN HOW YOU THINK IT DID”4.) “THE EMERGENCE OF HIP-HOP”5.) WRITING: REFLECTION VERSES
What is hip-hop?Think: music, clothing, food, language, history, etc. Give examples!
What is NOT hip-hop?
Write your answer down.
Turn and Talk Share your answer with your neighbor. What do you agree on? What do you disagree on? Be prepared to share out!
Music
Graffiti
Fashion
Where did Hip-Hop come from?
It depends who you ask…. …West Africa? …The Great Migration? …Bob Dylan? …Gil Scot-Heron? …DJ Kool Herc? One thing everyone agrees on is that….
“IF IT WASN’T FOR THE BRONXTHIS RAP SH*T PROLLY
NEVER WOULD BE GOING ON!SO TELL ME WHERE YOU FROM?
UPTOWN BABYUPTOWN BABY
WE GETS DOWN, BABYFOR THE CROWN, BABY”
HIP-HOP: BORN IN DA BRONX
“Hip-Hop Did Not Begin How You Think it Did”
Read and annotate the article Highlight/underline important claims in the article Listen to the music that accompanies us reading! Left margins: questions you have based on
reading. Right margins: draw a picture, ask a question,
write down an insight to help you remember Submit for a classwork grade!
“Hip-hop was born in the neighborhood, where young people gathered in parks, on playgrounds, and on street corners, to speak poetry over mechanical sounds and borrowed melodies. Rapping and DJ-ing were at the center of this emerging culture, but hip-hop was always bigger than just the music. Hip-hop was also break dancing, the gymnastic dance style that valued improvised, angular athleticism over choreographed fluidity. And hip-hop was fashion: hats, jackets, gold chains, brand sneakers. Hip-hop was graffiti, too-a new form of expression that employed spray paint as the medium and subway walls as the canvas. The police called it vandalism; the people called it art…”
“From the beginning, hip-hop was aggressive and oppositional, a break from the musical traditions it followed. Jazz had refused to be on time, rock and roll had refused to be quiet, and hip-hop refused to be melodic. Rappers didn’t have a band, they had a turntable; the music was not about the skillful arrangement of instruments but about the skillful production of sounds. When rap music included traditional melodies, they were more often compositions that others had made, “samples” from funk or R&B, borrowed from black music predecessors like James Brown. Most hip-hop music today is made up of more than the rapper and a DJ that made straight “rap” music back in the day— the most popular songs have a hook, a catchy chorus that breaks up the rapped verses. But then as now, hip-hop music is about the manipulation of sounds, the layering of beats, bass lines, sound effects, the voice of the MC, the melody of the hook.”
EXCERPT FROM: “THE EMERGENCE OF HIP-HOP”By Claudia Calhounhttp://www.paleycenter.org/the-emergence-of-hip-hop/
Reflection: Verses
Write your own hip-hop verses that tells these stories:
1. How did hip-hop enter your life?
2. How did hip-hop get started?
3. How do you think hip-hop effects you and society? Use a consistent rhythm: Something you can hum: ex. “ba-dum ba-dum ba-dum ba-dum”
Rhymes go at the end of the line, and can also happen in the middle of lines.
Examples from John
1. HOW HIP-HOP ENTERED MY LIFE
It all started back in ‘95When Dr. Dre came in my lifeI heard his song, it made me screamHim and Snoop were the A-team
I never heard that beat beforeAnd hooks so fresh and so hardcoreMe and my best friend named MarkWe’d play “The Chronic” in the park
Then came Pac, then Biggie and JayThen Slim, LL, and House of PainOutkast and Kendrick and Biz MarkieAnd Nas, the poet of NYC.
2. HOW HIP-HOP GOT STARTED
Some say it all started in the Bronx with HercAnd Herc did the work with the verses firstRap parties uptown on the BX blocksDJs, MCs, and the party don’t stop
I say it wasn’t one, or two, or threeThat helped hip-hop rule NYCIt was ordinary people like you and meTheir voices shaped society
Now throw your hands up in the airAnd wave ‘em all around like you just don’t careIf you love hip-hop, now’s the timeTo write your own mad funky lines
Reflection: Verses
Write your own hip-hop verses that tells these stories: PICK 2 of the following:
1. How did hip-hop enter your life?
2. How did hip-hop get started?
3. How do you think hip-hop effect you and society? Use a consistent rhythm: Something you can hum: “ba-dum ba-dum ba-dum ba-dum”
Rhymes go at the end of the line, and can also happen in the middle of lines.
Homework! Finish your verses for homework! Record yourself saying the verses out loud – use your smartphone or the library computers upstairs!
Submit the typed verses and audio recordings to John and Andy:
John: [email protected] Andy: [email protected] Due next class!