Hip-hop was born in the break 91裸聊视频� that moment when a song91裸聊视频檚 vocals dropped, instruments quieted down and the beat took the stage.

At the hands of the DJs, that break moment became more: a composition in itself. The MCs got in on it, speaking their own clever rhymes. So did the dancers, b-boys and b-girls. Graffiti artists took it to the streets of New York City.

Hip-hop spread around the country and the world. At each step: change, adaptation. Art, culture, fashion, community, social justice, politics, sports, business: Hip-hop has impacted them all.

In hip-hop, 91裸聊视频渨hen someone does it, then that91裸聊视频檚 how it91裸聊视频檚 done. When someone does something different, then that91裸聊视频檚 a new way,91裸聊视频� says Babatunde Akinboboye, a Nigerian-American opera singer and longtime hip-hop fan in Los Angeles, who

Hip-hop 91裸聊视频渃onnects to what is true. And what is true, lasts.91裸聊视频�

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Those looking for a starting point have landed on Aug. 11, 1973, when Clive Campbell, known as DJ Kool Herc around the Bronx, deejayed a party. Campbell had started extending the musical breaks of records and speaking over the beat. It wasn91裸聊视频檛 long before the style could be heard all over the city.

And then in 1979, The Sugarhill Gang put out 91裸聊视频� 91裸聊视频� and introduced a rap record that would reach as high as 36 on Billboard91裸聊视频檚 Top 100 chart list.

Michael 91裸聊视频淲onder Mike91裸聊视频� Wright says he knew the song was 91裸聊视频済oing to be big. 91裸聊视频淚 knew it was going to blow up and play all over the world because it was a new genre of music,91裸聊视频� he tells The Associated Press.

And Guy 91裸聊视频淢aster Gee91裸聊视频� O91裸聊视频橞rien says, 91裸聊视频淚f you couldn91裸聊视频檛 sing or you couldn91裸聊视频檛 play an instrument, you could recite poetry and speak your mind. And so it became accessible to the everyman.91裸聊视频�

Female voices took their chances, like Roxanne Shante, who became one of the first female MCs to gain a wider audience. Other women have joined her, from Queen Latifah to Lil91裸聊视频� Kim to Nicki Minaj to Megan Thee Stallion and more.

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Over the years, hip-hop has been used as a medium for just about everything. Mainstream America hasn91裸聊视频檛 always been ready for it. though.

Coming from America91裸聊视频檚 Black communities, that has also meant hip-hop has been a tool to speak out against injustice, like in 1982 when Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five told the world in 91裸聊视频� ,91裸聊视频� about the stresses of poverty in their city neighborhoods.

And Public Enemy91裸聊视频檚 91裸聊视频淔ight the Power91裸聊视频� became an anthem when it was created for filmmaker Spike Lee91裸聊视频檚 1989 classic 91裸聊视频淒o the Right Thing,91裸聊视频� which chronicled racial tension in a Brooklyn neighborhood.

Some in hip-hop pulled no punches but often those messages have been met with fear or disdain in the mainstream. When N.W.A. came 91裸聊视频淪traight Outta Compton91裸聊视频� in 1988 with loud, brash tales of police abuse and gang life, radio stations recoiled.

Hip-hop (mainly that done by Black artists) and law enforcement have had a contentious relationship over the years, each eyeing the other with suspicion. There91裸聊视频檚 been cause for some of it. In some forms of hip-hop the ties between rappers and criminal figures were real, and violence spiraled out, as in high-profile deaths like that of Tupac Shakur in 1996 and The Notorious B.I.G. in 1997. But in a country where Black people are often looked at with suspicion by authority, there have also been plenty of stereotypes about hip-hop and criminality.

As hip-hop spread, a host of voices have used it to speak out, like Bobby Sanchez, a Peruvian American transgender, two-spirit poet and rapper in Quechua, the language of the Wari people that her father came from.

91裸聊视频淚 think it91裸聊视频檚 very special and cool when artists use it to reflect society because it makes it bigger than just them,91裸聊视频� Sanchez says. 91裸聊视频淭o me, it91裸聊视频檚 always political, really, no matter what you91裸聊视频檙e talking about, because hip-hop, in a way, is a form of resistance.91裸聊视频�

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When hip-hop first started being absorbed globally, it often mimicked American styles, says P. Khalil Saucier, who has studied its journey across the Africa continent. These days, homegrown hip-hop can be found everywhere.

91裸聊视频淭he culture as a whole has kind of really rooted itself because it91裸聊视频檚 been able to now transform itself from simply an importation, if you will, to now really being local in its multiple manifestations, regardless of what country you91裸聊视频檙e looking at,91裸聊视频� says Saucier, a professor of critical Black studies at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania.

That91裸聊视频檚 to everyone91裸聊视频檚 benefit, says Rishma Dhaliwal, founder of London91裸聊视频檚 .

91裸聊视频淗ip-hop is 91裸聊视频� allowing you in someone91裸聊视频檚 world. It91裸聊视频檚 allowing you into someone91裸聊视频檚 struggles,91裸聊视频� she says. 91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 a big microphone to say, `Well, the streets say this is what is going on here and this is what you might not know about us. This is how we feel, and this is who we are.91裸聊视频�91裸聊视频�

Hip-hop has also gone into other spaces and made them different.

For Usha Jey, hip-hop was the perfect thing to mix with the classical South Asian dance style of Bharatanatyam. The 26-year-old French choreographer last year showing the two styles interacting with each other.

Hip-hop culture 91裸聊视频減ushes you to be you,91裸聊视频� Jey says. 91裸聊视频淚 feel like in the pursuit of finding yourself, hip-hop helps me because that culture says, you91裸聊视频檝e got to be you.91裸聊视频�

Hip-hop is 91裸聊视频渁 magical art form,91裸聊视频� says Nile Rodgers, . He would know. It was his song 91裸聊视频淕ood Times,91裸聊视频� with the band Chic, that was recreated to form the basis for 91裸聊视频淩apper91裸聊视频檚 Delight91裸聊视频� all those years ago.

91裸聊视频淭he impact that it91裸聊视频檚 had on the world, it really can91裸聊视频檛 be quantified,91裸聊视频� Rodgers says. 91裸聊视频淵ou can find someone in a village that you91裸聊视频檝e never been to, a country that you91裸聊视频檝e never been to, and all of a sudden you hear its own local hip-hop. And you don91裸聊视频檛 even know who these people are, but they91裸聊视频檝e adopted it and have made it their own.91裸聊视频�

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